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...lawmakers in the House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure authorizing the government to spend $80 million over four years to provide shelter and legal aid to North Korean refugees and make it easier for them to seek asylum in the U.S. Another $16 million would go to nonprofit groups working for change in the North through methods such as smuggling in radios so that citizens can listen to forbidden Voice of America broadcasts. Aides to lawmakers working on the North Korea issue say there is at least a 50-50 chance the Senate could adopt the House bill...
Still, the hassle of creating a nonprofit from whole cloth--and finding someone to run it--wasn't how he wanted to spend his sunset years. Instead, he went to the Denver Foundation, a 78-year-old community endowment program that has two functions: it invests money from local donors and distributes it to charitable organizations, and it also manages and administers charitable funds for individuals, families and businesses. (There are 600 such community foundations in the U.S.) Conover wanted to brainstorm with his old pal and CEO of the foundation, David Miller. "We batted around ideas for starting...
Davis has been throwing his considerable energy into nonprofit work. He recently paid to have a six-speaker sound system installed in a Minneapolis children's cancer-research center to see whether music provided the patients with comfort and relaxation. It did. Davis is planning meetings at several other major medical institutions to explore the possibility of a line of holistic musical balm. "You just try to connect the dots," says the Christmas elf. "One good thing might lead to another." In Davis' case, it already...
...form of diversification, ranging from contracting out labor and machinery to running a bed-and-breakfast. "It used to be a question of farmers' wives offering rooms on the side, but now for many it's a full-time business," says Nigel Embry, who runs Farm Stay UK, a nonprofit body that publishes a directory of farms that take guests. Dairyland Farm World, a farm-turned-theme-park in southwestern England, has gone down the diversification route. For an entry fee of $40 per family, Dairyland offers a milking parlor and a "pat-a-pet" area...
Even the good numbers tell only part of the story. If 88% of kids have adequate health insurance, that means 12%--or a whopping 8.8 million--don't. "There's really no reason for kids not to be covered," says Emil Parker, director of the health division of the nonprofit Children's Defense Fund. "Kids are the least expensive group to cover because they're generally healthy...