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...that's a good idea. Because so much of the American gross domestic product is involved in the coal, petroleum and nuclear industries, walking away from them would set off severe economic shock waves. "The grid is a $360 billion asset," says Clark Gellings, a vice president of the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute. "It's literally a national treasure." Gellings believes that decentralization will play some role in the energy industry of the future, but he thinks it will always be a minority player. "It may be 20% of the supply in maybe the next 20 years," he says...
...sound like a recipe for chaos--a disclaimer on the site reads, "It is of course possible for biased, out-of-date or incorrect information to be posted." But since thousands of people review updates and changes every day, false information usually gets corrected. Created in 2001, the free, nonprofit site currently has 150,000 entries. --By Anita Hamilton
...success that mattered most was the kind you returned to the wider world. After he stepped down as CEO in 1980, he dedicated himself to what he called the "nonprofit world": building low-income housing at the Enterprise Foundation; serving on Harvard University's managing council; and, most famously, chairing the New York Public Library, which he helped bring back from financial ruin, along the way restoring Bryant Park, the jewel of greenery behind the library's main building in midtown Manhattan. In his private life, his third marriage, to Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos, of the family that has published...
Sometimes you can have more impact giving to a smaller organization. But don't let a large nonprofit turn you off from a cause you believe in. If you're vigilant, you'll see your dollars do good in either case. And at the end of the year, that extra tax deduction will be a well-earned bonus...
Canadian citizen Wilson R.S. Prichard ’03 had expected to begin work at a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., earlier this month on a special one-year Optional Practical Training (OPT) program...