Word: nonprofiteers
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While it's hard to fault the intentions of any corporation or nonprofit that raises money for breast cancer, critics of pink-ribbon funding say that even though a lot of money is raised, it isn't necessarily being spent in a thoughtful, coordinated manner. "There's a lot of duplication on how we fund research, and there are huge gaps as well," explains BCA executive director Barbara Brenner, who would like to see more research on the environmental causes of breast cancer...
...likewise enthusiastic about Harvard, returning for an Institute of Politics Forum in 2005, and describing his years at the Kennedy School as “golden,” according to the website of the Center for U.N. Reform Education, a New York-based nonprofit research group associated with the U.N. Department of Public Information...
Before hitting the road for the campaign, Ross worked as a community activist. She was a coordinator for the Women’s Alliance and Sisters Together Ending Poverty, two nonprofit organizations in the MetroWest area...
...Kippur fast can know that they are doing their part to fight hunger across the globe. Hillel and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) have agreed to donate the money that would have funded Jewish students’ meals to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a nonprofit that grants money to hunger-relief organizations worldwide. Harvard will donate $2.46 per participant, according to Hillel’s vice president for community relations, Erica L. Farber ’07. This is the third year Harvard Hillel has coordinated the Yom Kippur program, Farber said. She added that last year alone...
...surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing - thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit. Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans - Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59 - who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save...