Word: nonprofitable
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...Hahn (like his father, a onetime county supervisor, he is a stalwart supporter of the black community), while about the same proportion of Latinos voted for Villaraigosa. "The negative ethnic factor was being brought in," insists Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute in Claremont, Calif., a nonprofit Latino think tank. "It may have been unintended, but that was the message that the Latino community picked up." Others disagreed. "Those who are not black or Latino are making more of this than we are," says state Democratic chairman Art Torres, who campaigned for Villaraigosa...
...complicated reality of a country not just short on frontier but seemingly out of space altogether. Even in midsize cities and 'burbs, traffic congestion can be so extreme that a walk to the market is impossible, biking downtown a flirtation with death. Burden, director of the High Springs, Fla., nonprofit Walkable Communities Inc., has figured out what to do. He's the guy people call to get their space back...
CBCPNET, the largest internet service provider in the nation, is run by the Catholic bishops conference of The Philippines: "your alternative ISP with a mission," as its slogan goes. A nonprofit organization, it lures users from the wages of sin by offering them prepaid internet cards so they can go online - to send and receive e-mails and access any number of "good" sites - for about $2 for seven hours, one-third of what commercial providers charge...
...still too many--have virtually dropped out of their children's education. Each school that we have recognized as outstanding has found innovative ways to get parents more involved--but those schools often work against a strong headwind. In a poll conducted earlier this year by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization, 70% of parents said they had not volunteered to tutor or coach in the past two years, and 60% said they had not attended a single community event held at their child's school. In a U.S. Education Department survey in 1999, 1 in 4 parents said...
...next few months, these recommendations will be compiled by the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit clearinghouse for research in the field, and forwarded to the FDA and the National Institutes of Health, which funds the bulk of cancer research...