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Most dogs practicing in hospitals today are certified either by Therapy Dogs International in New Jersey or by the Delta Society, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that screens dogs for personality, obedience and training in hospital protocols. Delta estimates that its 4,500 "pet partners" have provided services for 350,000 patients in 45 states...
Gross has an abiding faith in the free market, even for information. The system may work for rent-a-car companies--but museums and libraries? The results of Gross's handiwork can have a mercenary feel. The first site Google brings up in a search for "motherhood" is the nonprofit "Safe Motherhood Home Page." The first site on GoTo: "Nursing Apparel and Bras--Free Shipping...
Part of Generations of Hope, a nonprofit organization, Hope Meadows is the brainchild of University of Illinois sociologist Brenda Krause Eheart, who got the idea after five years of research into the adoptions of older children, which she discovered often failed. The key problem, she found, was that even the best foster families felt isolated. Without constant, accessible support, they found the task overwhelming. Eheart also fondly recalled having older neighbors who were devoted to her family when her children were young. In the early '90s, when some politicians were promoting a return to orphanages and group homes, Eheart says...
...knows precisely what concentrations of environmental arsenic are toxic, and the wood-treatment industry insists that wherever that line is, its products don't cross it. Environmental groups, however, disagree, insisting that at any dosage level, children and arsenic don't mix. Says Richard Wiles, pesticide director for the nonprofit Environmental Working Group: "We've pretty much set up an arsenic delivery system for kids...
...want to help the environment and reduce the risk for investors," says Forgach, "you must alleviate poverty in the region by educating the workers and generating local wealth." Muana turned over portions of its land to residents who had never before held land titles. A company-created nonprofit group worked with the Brazilian government to bring in doctors to vaccinate Muanenses for diseases like yellow fever, and donated a boat to take children to and from school. Last month the nonprofit group opened the Amazon's first computer school...