Word: nonprofitability
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...nondenominational ones forbid their physician employees from writing such prescriptions. While a general survey found that 51% of the state's physicians support the act, only 34% say they would be willing to be the one writing the prescription. Instead, many refer patients to Compassion in Dying, a local nonprofit that can recommend willing doctors. That is the group Lillian Sullivan, 77, turned to for help...
...with a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Redmond's nonprofit group, the Institute for Community Resource Development, has teamed up with five Chicago universities to study Austin's broader food needs. They have already started nutrition classes and salad bars in neighborhood schools and are planning to build a large food coop. Says Redmond: "Eating is a political act." --By Margot Roosevelt
Complaints about barriers, literal and figurative, deluged Shahina Siddiqui, president of the nonprofit Islamic Social Services Association, as she surveyed women at mosques across the U.S. She is producing a booklet advising imams to "make mosques more sister-friendly" by, among other things, giving women a larger role in policymaking. "There are women who are more conservative, and they should be accommodated," says Siddiqui. But, she adds, "that should not be a barrier to those who want to participate in a more open space...
...form of a tax-exempt charity--the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council (KORUSEC), which Buckham's firm formed and Kim funded. But if KORUSEC's goal was to make important people start paying attention to Kim, it may have worked too well. KORUSEC is one of a number of nonprofit organizations that have been caught in the controversy that now surrounds DeLay, who's facing questions about his fund raising and ties to lobbyists. The majority leader and seven other House members accepted lavish trips to South Korea from KORUSEC that may have been improper under House rules because...
...verge of securing its nonprofit status, the Zeitgeist has been through two previous locations; a fire in its previous Kendall Square digs (which its press materials call a meeting with “the forces of entropy”) caused a 2002 move to its current Inman Square location...