Word: nonprofitable
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...company donates "seven figures a year," according to Simon, to the Omaha Symphony, the Omaha Performing Arts Society and Opera Omaha, among others. Simon cites a local 2007 study showing that every $1 million added to the budgets of Omaha's nonprofit arts organizations generates three times that amount in economic activity, plus $1 million in wages and salaries and almost $1 million in annual state and local taxes. Simon's executive summary: "You can't argue with those kinds of numbers ... especially when you consider the power of the arts to educate, energize and bring people together...
...workers and Harvard is not any different. “I think this is misled,” says SLAM member Remeike J.B. Forbes ’11. “It’s kind of peculiar to see Harvard as analogous to GM, because Harvard is a nonprofit institution. When GM lays off workers they also decrease in production as well. Harvard is not a for-profit institution, its purpose is to serve a public good.” According to Taj E. Tucker ’12, a protester at SLAM’s recent rally...
...Abrams The director and Emmy Award-winning producer of ABC's series Lost is a past TIME 100 honoree Geoffrey Canada, founder of the nonprofit Harlem Children's Zone, recognizes the potential of all children and gives them the support they desperately need. The children whose lives his work touches will be the inventors, dreamers, doctors and leaders you'll be reading about in years to come...
...campaign, called “No Layoffs,” rests on the faulty assumption that Harvard in some way “owes” work and high wages to its employees. A SLAM flyer asserts that, “Harvard enjoys the financial benefits of a nonprofit, without the responsibility. If Harvard is to receive so much from tax-payers, it must provide secure jobs that support the economy.” But Harvard does have an enormous responsibility—that of educating around 20,000 individuals a year. The university is tasked with producing knowledge...
...There is absolutely no role for shame and humiliation in the treatment of youth," says Christopher Bellonci, medical director of the Walker School, a nonprofit serving children with serious mental, behavioral and learning problems. "I know of no clinical rationale for treating youth for any condition in that fashion ... They are engendering new trauma, not repairing...