Word: nonprofits
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Four years later, Wikipedia is the cumulative work of 16,000 pairs of hands, the bulk of it done by a hard-core group of about 1,000 volunteers. Its 500,000 entries in English alone make it far larger than the 65,000-article 2005 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Wales' nonprofit Wikimedia foundation pays just one employee, who keeps the servers ticking. The foundation survives on donations and Wales' modest fortune. "This is a softball league for geeks," he says. "And there are more geeks out there than anyone suspected...
Thomas Schlesinger, executive director of Financial Markets Center—a nonprofit research group that specializes in the Federal Reserve—said that the Bush administration may be reluctant to choose Feldstein because of the administration’s desire to distance itself from anything that might be seen as corporate scandal...
According to a recent report in the New York Times, Feldstein—president and CEO of the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)—was one of several AIG directors to receive a donation from the Starr Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is chaired by former AIG chairman and CEO Maurice R. Greenberg. Greenberg was forced out of his position at AIG when revelations of the improper accounting practices first came to light in February...
...regardless of the scandal, he is still in the running for the Fed, says Thomas Schlesinger, executive director of the Financial Markets Center, a nonprofit research organization that monitors the Federal Reserve...
...writing about "the problem that has no name," after she surveyed several hundred of her Smith classmates and found that most of them were unhappy in middle age. "If they had a midlife crisis, they didn't talk about it," says Jane Glenn Haas, founder of WomanSage, a nonprofit group that supports midlife women. "Women today realize that their mothers never had a sense of their options." Haas, now 67, shocked her family when she left her first husband 27 years ago. "They said to me, 'Why are you doing this?' I said, 'I'm not happy.' My mother said...