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...convergence to continue, is: How do leaders move between the two sectors over their careers? According to numbers reported in the article, only 2.2 percent of Harvard Business School (HBS) graduates will begin in public service. But over 80 percent of HBS’ alumni will hold positions in nonprofit organizations at some point in their lives. These individuals will move in and out of different sectors over the course of their careers...
...view this really as fine-tuning,? says Tim Ransdell, executive director of the California Institute for Federal Policy Research, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. ?This was risk-based all along. Maybe now it?s a little more risk-based, maybe not.? Now, as always, the formula is a secret. We just know what Chertoff told us: that it takes into account the threats and vulnerabilities facing a given city, in addition to the consequences of a possible attack. We have no idea why Phoenix and Las Vegas are now on probation and could lose funding altogether-while Milwaukee...
...over 80 percent of the school’s alumni hold positions in nonprofit organizations at some point in their lives, according to Business School spokesman James E. Aisner...
...first, Bill and Melinda focused their international giving on population control and reproductive health. But soon they learned that better health leads to smaller populations. In 1998, Bill Sr. came across a progress report from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a small nonprofit organization, based in New York City, working to speed the search for a vaccine. In the margins, he wrote a note to Bill and Melinda: "I don't know what we can do about this. But if this isn't what philanthropy is for, I don't know what is." Bill sent back a one-word reply...
...Bill, Melinda and Patty began to do things they had sworn they would never do. Although as a nonprofit they are forbidden to lobby for legislation, they are allowed to "educate." They opened an office in Washington and began meeting with politicians all over the world, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, French President Jacques Chirac and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...