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After leaving the Oval Office he started the humanitarian Carter Center and now reflects on the nonprofit's 25th anniversary in a new book, Beyond the White House. Jimmy Carter will now take your questions...
...hope of the 2+2 program, according to Associate Director for MBA Admissions Andrea Mitchell Kimmel, is to reach out to students who are not on the typical “business path”—a group that includes scientists, humanities concentrators, and those interested in nonprofits. In an interview with The Crimson, she expressed hope that the program would address the persistent fact that many HBS students give up risky entrepreneurship, nonprofit experiences, and other such ventures because they want to be certain they will look attractive to business school admissions committees.This is a worthy concern...
Maybe it's because I'm one of those fringe libertarians, but it seems to me that there are ways to encourage volunteerism without the dubious help of state and federal governments. Significant growth of volunteerism and the proliferation of nonprofit start-ups are good signs that people have already found avenues for service without burdensome bureaucracy or tax-funded carrots. Even if a national-service system ends up costing only the relative pittance Stengel cited, the cost would be in addition to those of the Iraq war and federal prisons, not in their stead. Whether through conscription, graduation requirements...
...like Nintendo and Sony, which are designing systems to meet the demand; small companies like Expresso Fitness that donate equipment; and federal grants and private donations that bankroll the purchase of equipment. "The old system is failing kids," says Phil Lawler, director of training and outreach at PE4life, a nonprofit based in Kansas City, Mo., that helps modernize P.E. "We are tricking them into exercising...
...pupils to whatever schools the parents choose. It's a voucher system in all but name that blows up the monopoly of a traditional school district. In the process, they have attracted the best school operators from around the nation to show what they can do, ranging from national nonprofit charter networks such as KIPP schools to for-profit companies like Edison Schools...