Word: nonprofitable
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...Ecovillage in rural northeastern Missouri. In western Massachusetts one finds fine-artist-designed BerkShares, which are convertible to U.S. dollars. More than $2 million in BerkShares have been issued through the 12 branches of five local banks, according to Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, the nonprofit behind the currency. And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) Talents; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha, a vast, desolate township of perhaps 1 million inhabitants near Cape Town, a self-sustaining community...
...potential Senate candidates and even a union official who could bring legal scrutiny uncomfortably close to the new Administration. Federal wiretaps picked up an unnamed official of the Service Employees International Union, an early endorser of Obama's, who was apparently entertaining Blagojevich's idea of creating a new nonprofit organization that could pay the governor a salary if he picked a certain candidate for the Senate seat and then retired to private life. The union official was recorded agreeing to "put that flag up and see where it goes." The union denies any wrongdoing...
...That did not deter the governor, apparently. The same day, Blagojevich suggested starting a nonprofit lobbying organization, known as a 501(c)(4), which he could eventually work for, and proposed getting Obama's friend "Warren Buffett or some of those guys to help us on something like that." In a separate conversation on the same day, he suggested that Obama and his associates "can get Warren Buffett and others to put $10, $12 or $15 million into the organization" and then suggested that he could retire from the governorship to go over to the organization...
...following day, Blagojevich attempted yet another contact with the Obama transition team in hopes of floating the 501(c)(4) idea. He said he wanted to tell an unidentified adviser to the President-elect that he wanted money to be raised for the nonprofit. The same day, he said in a phone conversation that mentioning the nonprofit to the President-elect's adviser would be an unspoken way of raising the question of Senate Candidate 1, among others. In the same conversation, Blagojevich suggested using an unidentified individual as an intermediary to the President-elect's adviser...
...slew of new services aim to give you at least some control over what mail you receive. One of the most popular, CatalogChoice.org focuses on ridding your mailbox of unwanted catalogs. You tell the nonprofit which ones you want to stop getting, and the site will contact mailers on your behalf. More than a million people have signed up since the free service was launched last year, and it has no doubt lightened many a mailbox. But the site isn't perfect. For starters, some companies simply ignore its entreaties. Others beg you to let them send at least...