Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good report card this month. Last fall, with most of the city's students testing well below state averages in reading and math, Philadelphia's assertive new schools chief, Paul Vallas, handed over control of 45 of the city's worst schools to seven private operators, including nonprofit organizations, universities and, most controversially, three for-profit companies. Now that the school year is ending, everyone is looking to see how the newcomers have done. Vallas has already given privatization a qualified endorsement by reaching agreements with six of the seven managers on contract terms for next year. This week...
...about everything from family to finances. "We try to get a couple to note and become aware of strengths, so that when they get into problems down the road, they don't start thinking they married the wrong person," says Harriet McManus, who with her husband Mike runs a nonprofit group called Marriage Savers based in suburban Washington. Couples like the Ruffners sing their mentors' praises. Says Andy: "If anything, the experience just reaffirmed all the reasons why I wanted to marry Kaet." --By Paige Bowers
...spends about half her time juggling meetings for the boards of numerous nonprofit institutions, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Smithsonian Institution and the Marlboro School of Music—and her meetings run like clockwork...
...theater and film. Sam wants to travel the globe as a documentary filmmaker. Nick will continue on to graduate school to nourish his love of East Asian studies and linguistics. Aaron wants to merge his interest in politics and journalism. Chris will spend next year working with a nonprofit in Cuba...
...most measures, the regional theaters are booming. There were just 23 in 1961, when the first national organization of nonprofit theaters was formed; today there are 1,800. Many have gleaming new theaters, with two or even three stages, and state-of-the-art production facilities that put to shame the cramped old boxes on Broadway. "Frankly, it's something of a step down for me when I go to New York," says Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Globe Theaters--who has lately been going to New York often to direct hit shows like Hairspray...