Word: nonprofitable
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There's a problem, though, with Helbert's whole operation: a nonprofit housing counselor might have gotten Bond the same result without charging her hundreds of dollars. In fact, many of the flashiest benefits these new walk-away companies advertise are ones homeowners can procure on their own. Are you willing to pay someone to force the bank to stop harassing you with phone calls? O.K., but you can achieve the same result for the cost of a stamp by sending a letter citing the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which says lenders can call only if they're taking...
...course, to make these kinds of deals, people have to know they exist. And as the system of nonprofit housing counselors has been flooded, many agencies have been forced to triage homeowners: less urgent cases go to the back of the line...
...DiCiccio is a well-tanned, mild, bespectacled 60-year-old who has served as executive director of the San Diego County Alcohol-Policy Panel since its founding in 1994. The organization is a county-funded nonprofit whose main mission is to reduce underage drinking, although in pursuit of that goal DiCiccio often fights for policies that restrict adult drinking as well. For instance, earlier this year the panel helped persuade the San Diego City Council to ban drinking on city beaches. It was already illegal for those under 21 to drink in any public place, but on a crowded...
Public-health experts are now fighting back with a new online campaign. On June 11, New York University, Public Health Solutions (a New York-based nonprofit) and a filmmaker named Todd Ahlberg launched a website called hivbigdeal.org. It features two online short films designed to remind gay men that - duh - HIV is still deadly, and that we must talk about it in the bedroom, during those awkward moments before sex. The films are called The Morning After and The Test, and I can't stop thinking about them. A disclaimer: while the shorts are smartly directed, they are poorly acted...
...historic significance, it remains to be seen what practical consequences the Supreme Court ruling will have. According to Shayana Kadidal, senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit whose lawyers serve as sole or joint counsel for more than 200 prisoners at Guantánamo, "The impact of this ruling on military commissions trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others may very well be negligible, because federal courts have always been reluctant to stop trials, including military trials, in mid-process...