Word: nonprofits
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...definitely not a seller's market for people looking to unload their high-priced yachts. So people are giving them away--sort of. Following up on their popular car-donation programs, charities such as Goodwill and Volunteers of America, as well as an increasing number of small nonprofits, are accepting boats and yachts, ranging in value from $500 to several million dollars. Volunteers of America alone took in more than 300 boats last year. Walter Cronkite has given two of his vessels to a Florida nonprofit...
...nonprofit watchdog group, TV-Free America, finds television overload to be problematic, though admittedly they are more concerned with inappropriate child exposure than my personal feelings about my abs. The group has started a national TV-Turnoff Week each April, an effort supported by everyone from the National Academy of Pediatricians to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. (The people who spend the most time watching flashing bare mid-driffs are also the heaviest.) This year over 6.4 million Americans avoided the Box of Existence for seven whole days. I liked a particular phrase on their website...
...cannabis, requiring a third bureaucratic layer. "In an era of privatization, it's shocking that the government insists on a monopoly so that it can choose not to provide marijuana to projects it doesn't like," says Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit pharmaceutical firm. (For 18 months, Doblin's association and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have unsuccessfully sought a license to grow research-grade cannabis at the university...
...races for the Senate and the House, campaigning for state and local judgeships has increasingly become part of the modern, big-money political world. Spending on Supreme Court campaigns in the 38 states where such judges are elected jumped 61% between 1998 and 2000, according to the nonprofit group Justice at Stake, and is on track for another big increase this year. Outside interests such as the Chamber of Commerce, pushing a nationwide campaign to cap jury awards, as well as trial lawyers and labor unions, are pouring money...
...hospitals and clinics create drug-rep-free zones, PHRMA spokesman Jeff Trewhitt points out that doctors who shun salesmen also forgo the free samples, which are often used to treat indigent patients. Nevertheless, physicians are relying less on sales pitches and turning instead to unbiased sources like the biweekly nonprofit Medical Letter medletter.com to get the lowdown on new drugs. The crusade is also making inroads among a new generation of doctors who haven't yet experienced drug-company largesse. The American Medical Student Association is trying to ward off drug reps who try to cozy up to future doctors...