Word: nonprofits
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State agencies and nonprofit organizations have received hundreds of complaints in the past few years from clients who feel bilked. Some custodial parents don't realize how difficult the contracts are to cancel and find themselves paying exorbitant fees for services that aren't fully delivered. "We have all sorts of people who have gone to private agencies and feel ripped off and lied to," says Geraldine Jensen of the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, whose members are low-income parents seeking child support. Channeling the collective anger, Charles Barr, a lawyer in Milwaukee, Wis., has filed...
...some critics of the private sector urge the Administration to do more. "Here we have an industry where some of the companies, by almost any measure, are alleged to be doing bad things," says Vicki Turetsky, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of low-income families. "But there's no message coming from the Bush Administration that these practices won't be tolerated." A few states, including Connecticut, have passed laws capping commissions. At the federal level, however, there are no rules governing child-support collection, even...
...educate people about the need for wilderness, but it can also introduce humans into remote, fragile ecosystems where they would not otherwise go. Some of the better-run ecotourist ventures have mastered low-impact tours, using income from the visitors to keep certain areas pristine. Programme for Belize, a nonprofit group, has bought 260,000 acres of forest in northwestern Belize--about 4% of the country's total land area--that had been destined for logging. Half of the area is now a reserve, surrounded by a buffer zone in which forestry and tourism are permitted. Ecotourism covers some...
...momentum toward clean renewables is undeniable. Globally, solar- and wind-energy output is growing more than 30% annually--far faster than conventional fuels--and their cost is plummeting. "We are on the cusp of an energy revolution," says Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington nonprofit. "It will be as profound as the one that ushered in the age of oil a century...
...York City, and Meyer, a Catholic who grew up in Phoenix, Ariz., say their family deals with racial boundaries daily. Meyer had to take a class to learn how to braid and care for her daughter's hair properly, and Glotzer sits on the board of PACT, the nonprofit agency based in San Francisco that helped arrange their kids' adoptions. Glotzer and Meyer also decided to live only in racially integrated neighborhoods in Oakland and Berkeley, Calif. They turned down a chance to move to New England, where they doubted they would be able to find a similarly diverse community...