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...countrymen. "So many Americans have a special rapport with Florence," says Brandolini, who sells and rents out luxury Italian properties through her real-estate agency, The Best in Italy. "They come back to Florence all the time." Thus in 1998 was born Friends of Florence, fashioned after the nonprofit art and architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington, D.C., for tax purposes, the group of 140 people raises and spends money to preserve Florence's artistic legacy. It helps that Brandolini can tap some of her real-estate clients, such as Bette Midler and Mel Gibson. Sting, Franco...
...latest project is to help clean David himself, in time for his 500th birthday in 2004. The distilled-water cleaning, during which David will remain visible to the public, is being financed by a Dutch nonprofit foundation. The Friends sponsored the diagnostic testing that will determine how the restoration proceeds, and they're funding a DVD and website containing all the latest research on the statue. Was it hard to get the money? "The $200,000 for David were gathered literally in 24 hours," says Brandolini. Information: www.friendsofflorence.org
...free wi-fi in San Francisco, the city has Brewster Kahle to thank for sowing the seeds of SFLAN back in 1997. An entrepreneur who sold his search-engine business to Amazon.com Kahle now runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that collects and stores a vast library of defunct Web pages. He buys his Internet access wholesale from a local company at the bargain rate of $30 per megabit per month. The archive needs many thousands of megabits to do its job, and Kahle considers the amount of bandwidth that Pozar's San Bruno antenna requires--which costs Kahle less...
...panel, composed of two top-level business executives, a former governor, a nonprofit chair and a writer, told the audience that as common awareness of a societal malaise in morality increases, public figures are being increasingly held accountable for their lapses in judgement...
...Chronicle—which reports annually on donations gathered by the nation’s 400 largest nonprofit organizations—attributed the poor results to the nation’s sagging economy and stock market. It is the first time in a dozen years that contributions to the largest 400 have declined, according to the survey...