Word: nonprofits
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Andrew Cuomo, founder of HELP USA, a national, nonprofit shelter provider, says the Administration is merely redefining the issue so as to appear to be doing something. "What makes you say that a guy who has been on the street for five years and is a heroin addict is any more needy than a woman who is being beaten nightly in front of her children?" he asks. For his part, Senator John Kerry, a Democrat running for President, has proposed legislation that would add 1.5 million units of affordable housing to address the fact that America's population has grown...
...they are clinically depressed. The effect is potentially so significant that the medical profession has begun to focus serious attention and resources on trying to understand what's going on. At a national conference in Washington in November, Evans served as co-chairman of a meeting, sponsored by the nonprofit Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), to get a better handle on how widespread the problem is. For two days, experts in cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes and other diseases, along with patient advocates, listened to the evidence linking depression with one illness after another...
...with an interpreter and fixers to deal with glitches. With Lost World, we paid $1,890 each (not counting airfare) for 14 days inclusive of food, transportation and four hotel nights. But prices vary depending on where you go and how many people are in the group. A worthy nonprofit organization, the Wild Salmon Center (at wildsalmoncenter.org) based in Portland, Oregon, has been conducting fishing and scientific expeditions to Kamchatka for years...
...reports that the number of new student pilots flying single-engine planes rose 6% this year through Nov. 2, compared with the same period last year, to a total of 58,747. While no one tracks the number of executives among those students, the National Business Aviation Association, a nonprofit group, says that since February, 6% more businessmen are flying themselves in their own planes or ones they rent. Says AOPA's Boyer: "More and more executives are treating planes like a personal car used for business...
...potential has not been lost on the intelligence community. When CIA agents came calling on digiMine, a retail data-mining specialist based in Bellevue, Wash., they carried a list of 900 companies that were pursuing data-mining capabilities, says CEO Usama Fayyad. Through a nonprofit venture-capital fund that it finances, called In-Q-Tel, the CIA has invested in several data-mining companies that serve both the private sector...