Word: nonprofits
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...they are raising the stakes. Two months ago, the Taliban claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed a Canadian and a British soldier. Last week, just the day before Karzai declared the Taliban "defeated," five members of an Afghan nonprofit group were shot dead by suspected militants. In Spin Boldak, a dusty smugglers' crossroads in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched four major ambushes from Pakistani hideouts against Afghan government outposts over the past nine months, killing dozens. Abdul Raziq, the pro-U.S. garrison commander in Spin Boldak, says he has received intelligence from tribal allies in border...
...growing, nonprofit, “nonpartisan” network of activists and artists whose goal is to challenge President Bush’s administration and expose its failed policies through witty and strategic media and theater campaigns. Launched during the 2000 presidential campaign as “Billionaires for Bush or Gore,” it uses a wily combination of satire and facts to communicate through grass-roots organizations and the Internet. The campaign aims to alert the public to the fact that Bush is, in fact, not the ordinary, down-to-earth guy he purports to be. Instead...
...student group is a chapter of China Care, a nonprofit organization founded by Matt R. Dalio ’06, when he was only 16. Since then, his program has garnered national attention, including an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show...
Such views are common in an age when women are marrying later in life and bringing more of their own hard-earned money to the altar. When Terri, an executive at a nonprofit organization, wedded at age 30, she already had a thriving career and her own condominium. "I brought assets, and my husband brought debts," she says. Instead of commingling all her resources, she secretly deposited $25,000 from the sale of her condo into a bank account that listed her mother's address...
Last week, Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee organized a convention that brought over 400 students from all over the Northeast together to discuss how to effectively combat global warming. A few months ago, two Harvard juniors launched a nonprofit organization called CollegeCorps that will enable students to volunteer for international humanitarian efforts in developing countries around the world. The annual Evening with Champions organized by Eliot House students has raised over $2.2 million for cancer research and care since its creation in 1970. This weekend, thousands of high school students are coming together to promote civic responsibility through...