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Students should lobby for increased affordable housing, accessible legal aid, adequate income, and universal healthcare to fight homelessness, a panel of experts said last night. Cambridge Student Partnerships, part of a student-run nonprofit that teaches low-income individuals how to be independent and obtain governmental assistance, sponsored the panel. About 50 students gathered on the plush leather couches of the Lowell Junior Common Room to hear the five speakers. Panelists began by discussing the causes of homelessness. Macy DeLong, who said she was once homeless herself, focused on how mental health issues can lead individuals to lose shelter...
Plans such as the one Oksana accepted still use the threat of removing a child from the home, but they also encourage troubled parents to enlist a support network--birth families, friends, in-laws, neighbors, nonprofit and government agencies--capable of interceding before a crisis develops. The results of this early-intervention approach, called Alternative Response, have been impressive. In Olmsted County, one of 20 counties that took part in a three-year pilot project, the recidivism rate for parents who went through the program tumbled from 16.1% in 2002 to just...
...recent paper said more than 200 compounds use NF-kB signaling, aspirin among them. “NF-kB ought to be available to anybody who wants to make a drug against it, and the terms should not be unreasonable,” Roger Brent, president of the nonprofit Molecular Sciences Institute, told Science. “It’s potentially quite significant, although I think Ariad’s going to lose,” Rai said in an interview yesterday. A decision from the jury is expected on May 1 or shortly therafter, according to Eli Lilly...
...Harvard MBAs from the class of 2005 was $115,000, according to statistics from the HBS web site. “You’re going to make it back,” says section E member Martin Molina, “unless you are going to a nonprofit.” That’s why he believes that HBS students should socialize as they please—they might regret it if they don’t.Hey, who said schmoozing was cheap? –R. Drew Davis contributed to the reporting of this story...
...students from 4th grade to 6th grade drawn from underprivileged neighborhoods all over the city stream into the classrooms, where they are taught (by both Opus Dei and non Opus Dei teachers) math, reading and science. The tutoring program was started by Opus Dei and is run by a nonprofit foundation and separate board. Its executive director, Glenn Wilkie, is an Opus Dei associate numerary. The tutoring program is a big part of the work associated with the Chicago center, and its success in boosting scores of students has been widely recognized in the city...