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...moves against the homeless have not gone unchallenged. In 1984 some 30 homeless people marched on Reagan's ranch, and recent weeks have brought several sleep-ins at city hall. "The laws haven't been a deterrent," argues Attorney Willard Hastings, director of the Legal Defense Center, a local nonprofit legal-aid organization that was instrumental in fighting the voting-rights restriction. This month the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the city government to reply to the center's legal challenge to the sleeping ordinance. Churches have offered assistance to the homeless as well, and a few wealthy residents, like...
...Seattle company has come up with a new way for people to make a social or political statement. Called Message!Check, the firm works with printers around the U.S. to produce personal bank checks that bear slogans like THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK AND DRIVE. Message!Check has recruited several nonprofit organizations, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to supply slogans. The organizations, in turn, encourage their supporters to buy the checks and use them for paying bills. A new check commissioned by the National Organization for Women debuted this week. Its message: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN. Message!Check is the creation...
...Great Gray Way. Why, then, does New York City seem abuzz with theatrical vitality? In large part because Off Broadway is providing a satisfying mix of star turns, ensemble work, deft new writing and apt revivals. Operating in smaller spaces, under less daunting financial pressures, off-Broadway's mostly nonprofit companies have mounted half a dozen recent shows demonstrating artistry and elan...
Some sniffle centers employ nurses or other medically trained personnel who know how to treat illnesses and keep them from spreading. Chicken Soup, a nonprofit center that opened in Minneapolis last October, separates children into the Sniffles Room for colds, the Popsicle Room for stomach flu and the Polka Dot Room for chicken...
...show, sponsored by the Valiant Air Command, one of several nonprofit organizations in the country whose aim is to restore and maintain historic aircraft, had hoped to re-create the Doolittle raid by getting 16 B-25s off the ground at Titusville. "Folks, we really tried," apologized an announcer, Ted Anderson. "At the moment, there aren't 16 flyable B-25s in America." In the end, they got seven...