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...acquired infections. The small bonuses typically amount to 10% of physicians' annual salaries or less, but studies demonstrate that they can dramatically improve the services doctors provide. "Offering doctors and hospitals more money encourages them to do a better job," say Leah Binder, CEO of the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit consortium of major health care buyers such as General Motors. "We've already employed that logic to every other area of business. Why not health care...
Social workers should take race into account in adoptions, according to a new report from the nonprofit Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute--despite a 1994 law that prohibits doing so. While supporters of the Multiethnic Placement Act say attempting to match black children with black parents lengthens the time kids spend in foster care, the report argues that white parents are often ill-prepared to handle race-specific identity issues. It recommends race-related training for white parents as well as a drive to get more black parents to adopt...
...went a bit further. In December 2006, along with 200 other people, Francis traveled to Al Gore's home city of Nashville - otherwise known as the new Mecca of environmentalism - to be taught as a global warming educator by Al Gore himself, as part of the Climate Project, a nonprofit that promotes public awareness. Fourteen years old at the time, Francis was the youngest person ever trained by Gore. Back home in San Francisco he delivered a customized version of the most famous PowerPoint presentation ever developed, and since, he's given his talk to nearly 10,000 people, mostly...
...university varies based on the loan interest rate and salary earned by the student, and the specifics of each program differ from school to school. Nonetheless, all of these programs help to ensure that debt will not dictate the career choices of students by encouraging graduates to pursue nonprofit careers...
...Beyond the obvious benefits to students, such an initiative would benefit the public service and nonprofit employers, including, of course, the US government. According to a New York Times article from 2006, the United States will need to recruit two million new teachers in the next few years to fill our growing classrooms. With this challenge in mind, in 2004, Congress attempted to institute “debt forgiveness on new student loans to help recruit more math, science and special ed teachers to underserved areas.” Similarly, a number of states—like New York?...