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...same time, high-rent entertainment p.r. firm Rogers & Cowan managed to work Juan's logo into the final season of Friends and finagled an invitation for the mustachioed coffee grower to HBO's Emmy Awards after-party this week. It's a surprisingly slick strategy for the socialist-minded, nonprofit federation, which for decades has used the proceeds from its coffee sales to build roads, schools and health clinics in coffee-growing regions...
...lawmakers in the House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure authorizing the government to spend $80 million over four years to provide shelter and legal aid to North Korean refugees and make it easier for them to seek asylum in the U.S. Another $16 million would go to nonprofit groups working for change in the North through methods such as smuggling in radios so that citizens can listen to forbidden Voice of America broadcasts. Aides to lawmakers working on the North Korea issue say there is at least a 50-50 chance the Senate could adopt the House bill...
Diamond brooches, jade earrings and strands of pearls are not standard art-museum fare. The National Jewelry Institute, a new nonprofit organization, hopes to change that on Aug. 20 when it opens its inaugural show, "Masterpieces of American Jewelry," at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. The exhibition is the first museum retrospective of American jewelryeach of its 150 pieces was manufactured in the U.S. "What makes up the American spirit?" asks Ralph Esmerian, a fourth-generation collector who curated the show. "There's a whimsy about it and a tremendous appreciation for nature." Buyers beware...
Still, the hassle of creating a nonprofit from whole cloth--and finding someone to run it--wasn't how he wanted to spend his sunset years. Instead, he went to the Denver Foundation, a 78-year-old community endowment program that has two functions: it invests money from local donors and distributes it to charitable organizations, and it also manages and administers charitable funds for individuals, families and businesses. (There are 600 such community foundations in the U.S.) Conover wanted to brainstorm with his old pal and CEO of the foundation, David Miller. "We batted around ideas for starting...
Davis has been throwing his considerable energy into nonprofit work. He recently paid to have a six-speaker sound system installed in a Minneapolis children's cancer-research center to see whether music provided the patients with comfort and relaxation. It did. Davis is planning meetings at several other major medical institutions to explore the possibility of a line of holistic musical balm. "You just try to connect the dots," says the Christmas elf. "One good thing might lead to another." In Davis' case, it already...