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Neither New Hope nor the Education & Assistance Corp., a nonprofit agency that runs the anger-management classes for New York City, has data on whether its programs work. New Hope has just launched an after-care session for graduates of its eight-week course, since the company usually loses touch with them. And the New York agency, whose classes have more students than most but run just six hours, plans to begin collecting recidivism figures this year...
...know better than their elders what is now considered inappropriate personal touching. Physical contact of the sort that parents have with their children--the tickling and other affectionate horseplay--is inappropriate when dealing with other people's children. Some standards may seem overly careful or even ridiculous, but the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, an organization that counsels nonprofit groups on legal liabilities, says everyone who works with children--whether as a Sunday-school teacher or school-dance chaperone--should be vigilant in checking his behavior...
Back ashore last week, Saylor took his idea public, pledging $100 million to create a nonprofit "online Ivy League-quality university." And then came an even bigger revelation. He says it will allow everyone, from cabbie in Bombay to housewife in L.A., to earn a top-notch degree--for free. "If you put a professor's best performance of his life online, you can make something even better than Harvard," says Saylor, an M.I.T. graduate...
When Katie Couric wanted to bring national attention to colon cancer, she turned to an expert--Lisa Paulsen. It isn't that Paulsen is an expert on the disease, although she's learning fast. Her real skill, as president and CEO of the nonprofit Entertainment Industry Foundation, is raising public consciousness--and money--by using some of the biggest names in show business to focus public attention...
Grogan said the University would have more concern about the use of Harvard's name if the rehabilitation of HPHC--currently a nonprofit firm--makes it a for-profit company. However, he said that the University was not necessarily opposed to the use of the Harvard name in HPHC even if it does become for-profit...