Word: nonprofits
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Neuromarketing has its share of critics. Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a nonprofit group that Ralph Nader set up to monitor commercial forces in society, sent letters to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in July 2004 calling for an investigation into the practice. Commercial Alert says it fears neuromarketers could "peer into our brains" and control our buying behavior. Joshua Freedman of FKF says such fears are misplaced. "Some people view this like Frankenstein and brain control, but I think that science, by trying to understand what goes on in human brains, should be very freeing by helping...
...trying to help would put in as much as they can,” said Navaee, who helped coordinate relief efforts at the Law School.After last year’s tsunami and Hurricane Katrina financial pledges, the University was criticized by some for using its funds to benefit nonprofit organizations rather than for academic pursuits.“It’s a situation where the University is going to make somebody mad no matter what it does,” said Peter D. Hall, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government?...
...most part, they keep their complaints from employers, who, although attuned to their minority and female constituents, remain largely in the dark about those who happen to be both. A new study written by noted academics Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Cornel West and Carolyn Buck Luce and sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Work-Life Policy suggests that companies are generally unaware of hidden biases connected to the traditional white corporate world. The study raises a broader, difficult question that corporations are only beginning to deal with: As minority employees rise in the workplace, should they learn to deal with...
When minority women open up about their extracurricular duties, however, some find their employers surprisingly receptive. Aynesh Johnson, 35, pulled long hours as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs yet found time to sit on the board of a nonprofit that aids low-income families living in a wealthy area of Manhattan. News of her altruism reached the executive suite and might have helped her land her current role as vice president of global leadership and diversity. "It's seen as a positive," she says...
...While the universities, as nonprofit institutions, do not have to pay property taxes, they both make a voluntary payment to the city each year, in lieu of taxes. But Adkins attributes the city’s financial woes to the loss of taxes from these two large landowners, and argues that charging them would lessen the burden on residents...