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...process is profit; without that incentive, the owner of the business would not and should not be concerned with the business. True commercial co-cooperatives can easily be included among such legitimate businesses (at least until competing claims on profit or loss force its disintegration). Even nonprofit organizations (like the University) believe it is in their best interest to maximize their capital through private investments...
HAROLD ROSEN, 81; LOUISVILLE, KY.; crime-prevention activist A former real estate executive, Rosen in 1986 founded pro-power, a volunteer group of fellow retirees who act as consultants to more than 200 nonprofit agencies. Since 1993 he has focused its efforts on Project KidCare, a national child- photo-identification program targeted at parents to prevent and aid in missing-children cases. Says Rosen: "I'm a father, grandfather and great-grandfather, so children's safety is close to my heart...
Working with New York State and nonprofit groups, the two men have developed a promising design manual--now circulating nationwide--for building small, affordable efficiency units for the mentally ill homeless. The concept is "low tech, low budget," says Gran, but it uses "materials, colors and space to create a pleasing, comfortable, noninstitutional environment." Residents living in New York City prototypes give them thumbs...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Have President Clinton and GOP candidate Bob Dole been fudging federal campaign finance laws? Common Cause, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group called Wednesday for an independent investigation, claiming both the Republican and Democratic campaigns have spent millions of dollars raised for general "party building" improperly on TV ads directly endorsing the candidates. "Clearly, there is massive spending on both sides, which goes to the edge of legality, and may have crossed over," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Something certainly will be done about campaign finance, either in the courts or in the legislature. But although Bob Dole touched...
...more fortunate. Poorer women will see little in The First Wives Club that they can relate to. "This idea of leaving for a new trinket is more for people who are used to living well," observes Betty Nordwind, executive director of the Harriet Duhai Family Law Center, a nonprofit legal-aid service in Los Angeles. Among her divorce clients, if the husband has a younger girlfriend, that is likely to be "reason No. 20" for the split, with violence, money troubles and addiction the more pressing concerns...