Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy's deputy issues director, Joseph C. Feuer, noted that the congressman's Community Partnership Act, now in committee, would create partnerships between the federal government and nonprofit organizations already mobilized to create affordable housing. Kennedy has also written important amendments to other bills that saved 600,000 units of subsidized housing nationwide, he said...
Just how thriving is democracy in the world today? According to Freedom House, a New York-based nonprofit organization that publishes an annual study of comparative levels of world freedom, 58 of the world's 167 nations in 1987 could be considered "free," 58 "partly free" and 51 "unfree." The Comparative Survey of Freedom is certainly not infallible in its estimates, but its criteria of evaluation, in both the political and civil spheres, are consistent. It asks, for example, whether opposition political parties may organize and compete for power, whether the press is free, or whether the government ever loses...
Moreover, the majority of new workers in this smaller labor pool are women. The Hudson Institute, a nonprofit Manhattan research organization, estimates that 3 out of every 5 people entering the work force during the next twelve years will be women. Most will have children at some point during their careers...
...more lucrative fields, many are frustrated by limited opportunities to move up. "People who have worked hard, been on the rewrite bank, done the police beat are not being promoted as fast as their white counterparts," charges Ira Hadnot, a vice president of the Institute for Journalism Education, a nonprofit agency that has helped train 400 minority journalists. Black men fare even worse than black women, says Ernie Schultz, president of the Radio- Television News Directors Association, in part because "white males feel threatened by them...
...conversation goes on one of Project Lighthawk's flights this summer. The nine-year-old, nonprofit flying service, which operates on a budget of about $200,000 a year, has tracked radio-collared wolves in Montana and rare porpoises in the Sea of Cortes. Last winter Stewartt and Volunteer Pilot Jerry Hoogerwerf flew for several weeks over the Costa Rican rain forest and discovered and helped stop illegal gold mining and logging near a park on the Osa Peninsula...