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...became interested in conservation as a big-game hunter. In 1961, he founded the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation to help assure that Africa's new governments would do a better job of preserving game than their colonial predecessors had. For the past four years he has headed the nonprofit Conservation Foundation, which, under his leadership, addressed its educational and research programs to increasingly broader fields (waste disposal, the danger of pesticides, hunger...
Congress has called for the construction of 24.2 million new dwelling units by 1978. The only way to get them is to think big, and Co-Op City's sponsor-the United Housing Foundation, a nonprofit group organized by 40 labor unions-conceived the $294 million project on a monumental scale. When it is completed in 1971, Co-Op City will cover 300 acres of filled marshland, with 35 apartment towers, from 24 to 33 stories in height, eight block-square parking garages, six schools, several shopping centers, 236 townhouses, and assorted service buildings-an instant city...
...official ties with the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose was to let the school-which has Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey on its faculty-receive state and federal grants in order to double its enrollment. Henceforth, the institution will be administered by a nondenominational, nonprofit corporation...
...children were having fun in what all too often presents a forbidding atmosphere: a museum. But the private, nonprofit Children's Museum in Jamaica Plain, outside Boston, is a very different kind of museum. It has no collections behind glass, no bored guards, no admonitions to be quiet or keep hands off. In fact, the staff is frankly put out when a child is reluctant to try on an Indian sari, scrape the stretched deerhide with an Algonquin stone tool, or try on the Boston Celtics' Tom Sanders' size 17 basketball shoes...
Negro athletes, who have easy entree with blacks and whites alike, have formed combines to assist fellow Negroes. Three years ago, a group of pro football players, including the Cleveland Browns' ex-Fullback Jimmy Brown and the Washington Redskins' Guard John Wooten, started the nonprofit Negro Industrial and Economic Union. With a $520,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and $251,000 from the Commerce Department, the union has helped finance firms in half a dozen cities. Using such aid, former Barber Dennis Taylor, 29, has built his year-and-a-half-old Magnificent Natural Products...