Word: nonprofitability
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...Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
Aware of such potential problems, the pill's inventor, Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, is leading his own effort to establish a nonprofit foundation that would set up a new company both to manufacture and distribute RU 486 worldwide. Since the pill would be its only product, he says, the boycott threat would evaporate. The Population Council has expressed a willingness to discuss the plan with...
...company, Hoechst AG, had steadfastly shied away from becoming involved in the American market for fear of infuriating antiabortion activists. But in April, at the instigation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Roussel announced a compromise: it agreed to license RU 486 to the U.S. Population Council, a nonprofit organization based in New York City, which in turn would run clinical tests...
Sharp says that while she prefers to work for nonprofit firms, she does not choose them based on any narrow agenda. She says only. "I want every company I work for to build for responsible action...
...system has failed Bobby in just about every way possible," says Sean O'Brien, Shaw's pro bono lawyer and the director of the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center. Notes Dr. Jonathan Pincus, chairman of Georgetown University's neurology department: "The greatest tragedy in this case is that he has a treatable disorder. If he had been diagnosed and treated properly, two victims would probably be alive, and he would not be on death...