Word: nonprofits
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...Slow Money Alliance, set up as a nonprofit, brings the tenets of the Slow Food movement (buying local) to finance - exploring investment vehicles that re-circulate within the local economy, minimize environmental impact, stress diversity over monoculture, and earn decent returns. Tasch wants to give investors a stake in "restorative economy," building the food and ecological infrastructure on a community to community basis. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...billion forestation fund and a national energy-efficiency mission, among others - that won kudos from visiting British Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband. "I think India wants to be a dealmaker - not a deal breaker - in Copenhagen," Miliband said during a visit to New Delhi on Sept. 2. Both the nonprofit sector and industry have also been organizing seminars and workshops with aims ranging from enhancing the Indian carbon market to supporting India's negotiating stance in three months. (See pictures of the elephants of India...
...impact.) Obama said more explicitly than he has before that he is open to watering down the public option. "Some have suggested that the public option go into effect only in those markets where insurance companies are not providing affordable policies. Others have proposed a co-op or another nonprofit entity to administer the plan," he said. "These are all constructive ideas worth exploring...
...miles I've walked in the spectacular landscapes of the American Southwest, one of the most memorable was a stroll over a stretch of desert scrub with a scruffy, playful, sweet-as-can-be black-and-white dog named Harley. We met at Dogtown, a section of the nonprofit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, www.bestfriends. org, outside the Utah town of Kanab. Harley, like many of the approximately 500 dogs at Best Friends - and many of the pigs, horses, birds, rabbits, mules and other animals who live there - was abandoned by his owners. Others had it worse. They were abused, used...
...However, he believes it's next to impossible to sue a government entity and thinks it would be better if Congress stepped up to help out the victims similar to the way it assisted the automakers and others. He suggests financial assistance be limited to victims that are either nonprofit organizations or have income under a certain threshold...