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...bearded V.R. ("Swede") Roskam was even more ebullient than usual. "Everybody wins!" he boomed two weeks ago, as he was announcing next year's recipients of some 50 college scholarships from his own imaginative, nonprofit enterprise. The organization, which he set up two years ago in Glen Ellyn, Ill., is called Assistance Ltd. Roskam, an industrial sales executive with a soft spot for small private colleges and young scholars looking for help, finds a school that needs equipment. Then he talks corporations into donating excess equipment as tax-deductible gifts. The colleges in turn arrange for scholarships equaling the value...
...Judge Julius Hoffman to have him shackled to a chair and gagged during the Chicago Seven trial. Today he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, attends Temple University and directs a youth training program. "I want to contribute to social change by being the last word behind a nonprofit organization," says Seale, 48. Where would the money come from? Believe it or not, from a cookbook, Barbecuing with Bobby, and possibly a barbecue video. "If Jane Fonda can drop 250,000 how-to exercise videos, why can't Bobby Seale drop a halfmillion of these things every barbecue season...
These lofty numbers have considerable emotional resonance. All profits from the record and its various offshoots will be turned over to USA (United Support of Artists) for Africa, a nonprofit foundation that will funnel funds through established relief agencies. Columbia is contributing its net proceeds, and the singers showed up for no salary. Ken Kragen, a personal manager whose clients include Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie, was one of the first people Harry Belafonte called. It was Kragen who suggested making the sort of record that British rockers had released on behalf of Ethiopian relief during the holiday season...
...report praises Cambridge for its complexity and diversity, calling it "second only to Boston in terms of Massachusetts tourist attractions," but chides the city for not having an information center. The nonprofit organization will, among other services, provide walking tours given by high school students and develop and revise guides to the city...
...create models of order in the individualistic and chaotic computer-software field. Wang believes that its integrated regimen of planning, design and testing of new systems, guided by written instructions, can be an answer. Set up in a former Marist Brothers seminary, the institute is an independent nonprofit school. Only ten of its 50 master's candidates come from Wang Labs; the others come from the likes of AT&T, Digital Equipment and GTE. Says one student: "I'm finding just the right mix of technological and management courses...