Word: nonprofiteers
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...between them as much as anyone in public health,” said the school’s dean, Barry R. Bloom. Foege is a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a founding member of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta, Ga. At the CDC, he devised the concept of “containment vaccination,” which contributed greatly to the eradication of smallpox. Fauci serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His work has focused primarily...
...American Management Association, a nonprofit group in New York City that sponsors management-training courses of varying lengths, says business is up. And William Silver, an associate dean of the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, says more companies are asking him to set up customized training programs for specific issues...
...question about it: America's venerable charitable institutions provide valuable support to all sorts of causes. But the nonprofit universe today is teeming with exciting new entrants. As baby boomers reach the age for giving back, they have begun doing so in nontraditional ways. Some are even starting their own community groups to, say, drive home teens who have drunk too much or tutor the children of prison inmates...
...nonprofits is by looking for charities with low operating costs. Ask a nonprofit what percentage of the budget covers overhead and how much the CEO takes as salary. But you should be wary of smaller nonprofits that have been around a while and have grown tired or obsolete, says Robert Egger, author of Begging for Change, a book about nonprofits. Egger's advice: look for an organization with some turnover at the board level, a sign that new ideas are welcome. But you should probably avoid an organization with persistent turnover in management, a sign that the charity is ineffective...
Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit organization with projects in the U.S., Latin America, and Russia, said that although the success of projects like those he runs are dependent on the commitment of governments to providing basic health rights, Partners in Health would not necessarily avoid getting involved in countries where the regime is unwelcoming...