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...Force Staff Sergeants Katie and Fred Matney were posted on opposite sides on the world when they married last fall using webcams, thanks to FreedomCalls, a nonprofit that helps service members virtually attend big events back home for free...
This is the boldest move yet from an Administration that had been tentative in its response to the mortgage crisis, and the plan has drawn fire from two directions. Free-market types say it's a bailout for the irresponsible, while nonprofit groups that work with borrowers fear it won't help many people. Meanwhile, Paulson's past as chief executive of Goldman Sachs--he retired in July 2006 to go to Treasury--is becoming a political issue. Goldman was a big player in the business of packaging subprime mortgages for sale to investors. Now Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris...
...Museum of Contemporary Art Nestling amid the trees and ponds of People's Park, the dramatic glass Museum of Contemporary Art, www.mocashanghai.org, opened two years ago and is the first privately owned, nonprofit contemporary art museum in the city. And boy is it contemporary. Screens flickering with slick animation created from images of old Shanghai; video projections that shift from fish to pebbles to branches; a roomful of storyboards inspired by manga - when I was there, these were all part of an exhibition tying in with Shanghai eArts, the biggest digital-arts festival in the world. Call...
That was the genesis of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a nonprofit group that focuses on low-tech, high-impact projects in the developing world, implemented almost entirely by student engineers. If you think this sounds a bit warm and fuzzy for the right-angle world of engineering, think again. Since Amadei launched the national organization in 2002, more than 230 affiliated chapters have sprung up in universities and professional firms around the U.S., comprising some 8,000 members, with more overseas. EWB has built everything from aqueducts in Mali to solar panels in Rwanda. And the group is changing...
...crawl, stop and then begin to tick backward. Schumake's solar panel, just installed on her roof and partly financed with low-cost loans from the city, is supplying free power and more. The panel was put in by a team of local workers trained by area nonprofit groups that prepare unemployed Richmondites for jobs in the burgeoning green building field. "I'm happy because I'm saving money," says Schumake. "But I'm also saving the planet, and that's the major one." Van Jones, the dynamo promoting the project, breaks into a wide smile of his own. "Power...