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Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04—who began her career in finance and eventually ended up at the Brennan Center for Justice—said that in her experience there are more women than men in the nonprofit sector...
...universities work on their emergency mental-health protocols, they have struggled with privacy rights when determining whether to notify families that a student is acutely distressed. Last summer the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on suicide prevention among college students, issued intervention guidelines that covered, for example, contacting parents against a student's wishes. The foundation, co-founded by a retired pharmaceutical executive after his son committed suicide, recommended that colleges avoid policies that either require or prohibit calling parents when a student seems acutely distressed. Why? Because schools need wiggle room and because sometimes families...
...documentary film about the lost boys of Sudan, “God Grew Tired of Us.” Earlier this year, Dau published a memoir of the same name. Dau is now pursuing a degree at Syracuse University as a part-time student, and he directs a nonprofit devoted to Sudanese refugee issues and rebuilding southern Sudan. Last night’s talk was followed by a reception at Uno Chicago Grill in Harvard Square to raise money for building a hospital in Dau’s hometown. The talk was organized by IMPACT, a subset of the Harvard...
...Stingley took the intentional hit from Oakland Raider Jack Tatum during a 1978 exhibition game. Tatum, who defended his play, saying "My best hits border on felonious assault," was not penalized, never apologized and later wrote books billing himself as an "NFL assassin." Stingley visited paralyzed players, started a nonprofit group for inner-city kids and forgave Tatum. "It was only after I stopped asking why," he said, "that I was able to ... go on with my life." He was 55 and suffered from numerous ailments related to his quadriplegia...
Over the past three years, while researching a book on what I call secular epiphanies, I found people who had pulled a big U-turn in their lives. There was a slaughterhouse worker who became an animal-rights activist, a venture capitalist who quit to found a high-minded nonprofit, a death-penalty advocate who became a leading death-penalty opponent. Often the insight came in a forehead-smiting moment in the middle of the night: I've got it all wrong...