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...trial and error in order to help her daughter Sophie, now 11, overcome a paralyzing mutism. Today Shipon-Blum runs an SM clinic with a two-year waiting list and travels the U.S. speaking in hotel ballrooms packed with concerned parents, teachers and clinicians. She also founded the nonprofit Selective Mutism Group--Childhood Anxiety Network, which has become the major national advocacy group for SM. The group's website, selectivemutism.org gets 450,000 hits a month, and its call center hears from several hundred people a week seeking treatment or information...
...addition to acting and producing, Gere is also an accomplished pianist and humanitarian. He co-founded the Tibet House, a nonprofit organization committed to preserving Tibetan culture. A supporter of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan autonomy, Gere is a practicing Buddhist and founder of the Gere Foundation, which aspires to “assist the cultural survival of the Tibetan people through health, technological and educational projects,” according to the organization’s website...
...some health care experts. "These problems are not small 'glitches' that will be worked out in time," the Center for Medicare Advocacy warned in a report last week. "Problems with Part D will change over time and they will get worse." The center, a nonprofit organization helping older people and the disabled get access to health care, says in its report: "We anticipate that problems will be worse than they are today as systemic problems in Part D become increasingly visible." The center warns, for example, that many beneficiaries will discover their prescription drug plans don't cover all their...
...restricted Internet gambling, and with it the livelihoods of some of Abramoff arranged for two of them?a Choctaw Indian tribe and the gambling-services company eLottery Inc.?to each contribute $25,000 to the sponsor of the trip, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative nonprofit foundation on whose board Abramoff sat. They wrote their checks on May 25, 2000?the very day that DeLay departed...
...When a 9-month-old raises his arms to be picked up by Daddy, that demonstrates an incredibly complex chain of learning," says Claire Lerner, director of parent education at Zero to Three, a national nonprofit focused on early-childhood development. "First the child has to have an emotional connection to his father. Then he has to form an idea: I want to be picked up. Then he has to know to raise his arms. In that tiny vignette, you can see how complicated a baby's development...