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...WHWH in nearby Princeton to produce From the Wall, a weekly 15-minute interview with inmates, guards and prison officials. The show has won an award from the Association of American Trial Lawyers. Encouraged by his success, Mosiello recently embarked on his most ambitious prison enterprise: New Vista, a nonprofit broadcasting corporation that will market radio talk shows on crime and prisons, publish a companion magazine and channel its income into con-created programs for juvenile offenders...
...elderly, going to the supermarket not only is discouraging, what with soaring prices, but can be dangerous because of rising crime. Denver is experimenting with a promising technique to ease both problems. Financed by a regional-council grant of $45,115, a nonprofit organization called Senior Services Inc. has remodeled a 45-passenger bus as a mobile grocery store and stocked it with items priced just above wholesale levels. The bus makes ten stops a week in low-income neighborhoods and housing projects, and the police department sends along an escort for security. So promising is the innovation that there...
HEALTH. Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, the nation's largest complex of voluntary (private, nonprofit) hospitals, expects to be broke by year's end, a victim of rising costs, which produced a deficit of $5.6 million in 1973, up from $2.4 million in 1972. Pain in the pocketbook is causing patients of private physicians to put off deferrable care like plastic surgery and to postpone paying for what treatment they do get. Not surprisingly, the Doctors P Business Bureau of Southern California, which specializes in "ethical collections," is doing a booming business. As for emotionally...
...Phoenix, the Bates and O'Steen clinic has been in business since last March with a similar procedure and fee schedule. One of the few nonprofit organizations, the District of Columbia-based Law Offices of Washington, charges a flat $25 per hour for a lawyer's time and relies on law students for initial client interviewing...
Louisville's WHAS-TV puts on one-minute recorded statements from local spokesmen for all sorts of views 15 times a week. WGBH-TV, the public broadcast station in Boston, turns over a half-hour every day to nonprofit and other community groups to use as they please; its seven-month-old program. Catch 44, is booked solidly three months in advance. Even the networks have begun loosening up their nightly news formats. NBC'S anchor man John Chancellor last spring introduced "Editor's Notebook," an occasional entry designed, as he puts it, for "catching...