Word: nonprofits
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...It’s certainly unusual,” said Christine Letts, the Hauser lecturer in the practice of philanthropy and nonprofit leadership, “but I would argue it is far more consistent with Harvard’s mission to do something like this...
...being problematic because it’s quite clear that the Red Cross can’t use all the money it’s getting right now for the tsunami,” said Letts, who is also associate director of Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. “People have to make up their minds about that...
That awareness appears to be growing, however, as more cases of animal cruelty are being prosecuted. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, a 23-year-old nonprofit group, the number of reported cases involving animal abuse, cruelty or neglect nearly tripled from 1996 to 2000. In a more recent case, a woman in Gautier, Miss., called the police on Dec. 4, 2002, when she noticed two Doberman pinschers, one dead and the other emaciated, in a pen in her neighbor's yard. The case went to court the next month, and the dogs' owner, a junior high school teacher...
...Salvation Army is having a tough time this holiday season. In addition to being barred from fund raising at Target stores, the charity can't seem to find enough warm bodies to staff its collection kettles. The religious nonprofit, which has had to pay bell ringers in some areas, last week deployed a couple of hundred life-size cardboard figures alongside donation bins with a slot in the shape of a cross. "It's becoming more and more difficult to find volunteers," says Salvation Army spokesman Major George Hood. The group is testing whether electronic jingling and a recorded greeting...
While part of that may reflect an uncertain economy, some appears to be driven by a desire for sanity. "Most people want a season less rushed and less pressured, where they wake up feeling a little more magic," says Betsy Taylor, president of New American Dream, a nonprofit that runs a website called SimplifytheHolidays.org A 2002 survey by Taylor's organization found that 77% of adults polled said they wanted a "more simplified" holiday season. "We went through a period where everything had to be Martha Stewart perfect," Taylor explains, "but now there's a countertrend where people want...