Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wedding if we did." So says Guardian Angels National Director Lisa Evers, 28, who will marry Angels leader Curtis Sliwa, 26, on Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Sliwa founded the red-capped Angels, a volunteer crime-fighting citizens' patrol, back in 1979 in New York City. Since then the nonprofit movement has spread to 32 other cities. Evers and Sliwa grew close this spring after she organized an Angels chapter in Atlanta. Explains the roughedged Sliwa: "I began acting more human in her presence...
Founded four years ago, Partners is a nonprofit coalition of about 300 groups, ranging from the American Council for the Arts to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is at once a collector and disseminator of information about the cityscape, a goader, cheerleader and teacher. With headquarters in a recycled town house in Washington, D.C., Partners publishes books, pamphlets and newsletters about urban planning, fields 1,500 queries a year from officials and citizens intent on sprucing up their cityscape, and sponsors workshops and conferences. Its current budget is $1.3 million. Roughly 30% of it comes from the National...
...cuts have set off a scramble among nonprofit groups, from museums to soup lines, in search of new benefactors. Says Brian O'Connell, president of Independent Sector, a coalition of 335 corporations and philanthropies: "I'd hate to turn off a President who's trying to encourage voluntary activity, but he should not exaggerate: we can't pick up all the slack...
...year before the first payments were made-when it decided that benefits should go to the survivor (widow or widower) and dependents of a retired beneficiary. The expansions since then have been legion. Among them: bringing self-employed people, employees of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations into the system; providing for retirement at reduced, though still substantial, benefits at 62 rather than 65; starting, in 1956, a disability-insurance program...
...SAAHS is described by Anderson as a "small, exclusive, nonprofit organization founded to recognize scholarly achievement at the undergraduate and graduate collegiate levels." He is perturbed that no Harvard students have bothered to apply for membership this fall, and urges students of all backgrounds, who "possess a wide range of scholarship and talent," and who are "committed to the goals of academic freedom and excellence" to send self-addressed, stamped envelopes (or SASEs, as they are known in the trade) to P. O. Box 237, Clinton, N. Y. 13323. Oh, one more thing...it costs $10 to join, and dues...