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...There has to be hope in a community, and I think we have that now," says Helen Coleman, who has lived in the 77th for 35 years and works for a local nonprofit organization, trying to bring businesses and leisure facilities for kids to the neighborhood. She says new injunctions against gangsters gathering in public have reduced the number of them hanging out on the streets--and the resulting shootings she used to hear. She has seen relations between the police and the community improve too, and she says Bratton deserves a lot of the credit for that. "The vibes...
Chung To, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined...
...Pudding reminds me of your typical nonprofit arts organization—constantly in a state of chaos,” Ma says...
Jared Genser is president of Freedom Now, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience. He is a legal advisor to Yang’s family...
...York City last month, a nonprofit group called Women's World Banking organized a three-day conference at Goldman Sachs that the hosts dubbed "Wall Street Meets the World of Microfinance." As a subset of socially responsible investing, microlending has a compelling "double bottom line": make a profit and alleviate global poverty. Pension funds, university endowments and large corporations have been sniffing around for opportunities, but all--understandably--want to see good track records first. That's starting to happen. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's have begun either to rate microfinance transactions like bond issuances or to rate...