Word: nonprofits
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...CAREFUL Keep tabs on where your resume is going. The nonprofit World Privacy Forum last week published a study documenting instances of personal information sold, even identities stolen, from job-search sites...
...scrappy rockers, ages 11 to 17, are students at North Star Academy, a public charter school in Newark, N.J., that had no formal music curriculum three years ago. Now it hosts a small but rollicking before-school guitar class run by Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that doles out free instruments and lessons in popular music in more than 120 public schools in Newark, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. At a time when already anemic school arts budgets are dwindling, the unconventional program is thriving and enjoying a bit of fortuitous buzz...
...school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers and music teachers. There are several for-profit programs that give lessons in rock music, including one that claims to have inspired the Jack Black movie. But Little Kids Rock's national scope and nonprofit status make it unique. Wish, more pedagogue than punk when class is out, makes the case for his approach to music education. "If a kid is engaged, you win," he says. "And then that creativity transfers to every other part of their lives...
...changing my name to McStamberg." SUSAN STAMBERG, National Public Radio correspondent, on a $200 million bequest to the nonprofit broadcasting corporation from Joan Kroc, widow of the longtime chairman of McDonald...
...course, Bezos is not running the archive as some kind of nonprofit virtual library. He's improving our access to books because he wants to sell us more of them. Only registered Amazon customers may use the service (registration is free but a credit-card number is required). Even the most determined searchers will not be allowed to see more than 20% of any single book. The idea is to turn us all into bibliophiles by showing just how many authors have written about whatever topic we desperately need to know more about. The first few pages are free. Once...