Word: nonprofits
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...travel restrictions entirely; there are clearly some regions of the world where Harvard can reasonably conclude that student safety is an overriding concern. But country-based blanket restrictions are simultaneously heavy-handed and insufficient. Students wishing to study at the American University of Beirut or intern with a nonprofit in Jakarta are out of luck—both Lebanon and Indonesia are off limits despite the fact both are locales where a responsible traveler can expect no more danger than would be found in many U.S. cities. At the same time, the Indian side of Kashmir is an acceptable travel...
...time you are involved and then...people come along and they hopefully build on what you’ve done and they improve,” he says. “None of these nonprofit organizations would survive without these volunteers who spend a lot of time on their boards...
...experience over the years has been that the nonprofit world occasionally takes on things from the for-profit world, and sometimes takes on very bad things,” he says. “I think there is a certain cult of personality in the cultural field that is not unlike some of the more visible CEOs of the corporate world. And I think that’s wrong. I think the best of the cultural leaders, the people who place their institutions before themselves, they’re not self-aggrandizing...
...says that he enjoys his work immensely. “The psychic rewards—traditionally the main reason for doing nonprofit work—have been enormous,” he wrote in his 50th reunion report...
...every expert who is worried that the last thing fat people need is one more excuse not to get thin, there are hints that the problem is in fact more nuanced than that. One is a study that comes from the nonprofit Cooper Institute in Dallas. Since the 1970s doctors there have been amassing a database of the more than 80,000 patients who have passed through their doors to be weighed, measured, pinched, blood-tested and to run on treadmills while their vital signs are monitored. Drawing on that rich lode of data, the institute concluded that overweight...