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...most part, however, the LSC has enjoyed bipartisan support since it was created by Congress with President Nixon's backing, in 1974. A private, nonprofit corporation, it administers grants to 323 programs with 12,000 neighborhood law offices in every county in the U.S. In addition, more than 130,000 lawyers are involved in pro bono activities directed by the LSC. But even with the $415 million that Congress currently appropriates -- which is augmented by $240 million from,state and other sources -- a recent American Bar Association survey found that less than one-fifth of the civil legal needs...
Albert Meyer, an accounting professor at Spring Arbor College in Michigan, did not believe in Bennett, however, and therein lies the tale of how an elaborate Ponzi scheme came unraveled, leaving Philadelphia, Wall Street and the cozy world of nonprofit organizations reeling in embarrassment...
...committee's "efficient" 59-minute meeting, its members decided to advertise the position nationally in such publications as The Boston Globe the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Nonprofit Times, said Steiner, who is the former vice president and general counsel of the University...
Already, across the country nonprofit Christian legal groups funded by televangelists and direct-mail appeals are pursuing a broad range of cases, pioneering a savvy brand of First Amendment fundamentalism. "Christians from the 1960s on have taken a major beating in the legal arena and have lost a lot of their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court...
...behind a sliding glass window who hands her a clipboard with forms to fill out. In the bathroom, a chrome-and-glass cart holds a medicine jar full of cotton. But this is no doctor's office. The center--affiliated with the Christian Action Council's Care Net, a nonprofit organization based in Sterling, Virginia--has no staff members with medical training. Rather, any woman who drops by is offered a free over-the-counter pregnancy test and a good dose of antiabortion counseling using plastic fetuses, pamphlets and videos...