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...Estimated Iraqi deaths due to postinvasion violence, according to the Brookings Institution, using data from the U.N. and the nonprofit Iraq Body Count...
Associates at the workshop also said that the event provided a forum to advance the nonprofit organization’s cause and to introduce Harvard students to the consulting world...
Siebert, who died in July from breast cancer, had her last wish in life--that breezy convertible ride--granted by Dream Foundation. The nonprofit group headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., grants wishes to adults nationwide who have 12 months or less to live. Mir, a volunteer, understands what it means to have a dream fulfilled. The foundation gave her son Marcel a birthday bash with friends in formal gowns and dressy suits before he succumbed at age 23 to cancer in 2001. "He came alive for his birthday. He was so happy," Mir recalls...
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...