Word: nonprofits
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...This week is TV-Turnoff Week, which was created by a nonprofit group called the TV-Turnoff Network - a group that in its eighth year, being generous, is only 1/52 toward its goal. I felt it my responsibility as a journalist to play Russian space monkey for you, and test drive a TV-less week seven days before the real thing starts on April 22. To get the rules straight, I called the TV-Turnoff Network, where spokesman Frank Vespe nixed renting movies, playing videogames and taping this week's shows for later viewing. Reading TV Guide, however...
...first place, while they don't save enough for a future that will offer far fewer fixed-benefit pensions, most Gen Xers do save. The 2002 Retirement Confidence Survey from the nonprofit Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) shows that about one-quarter of workers ages 20 to 39 have between $10,000 and $50,000 saved for retirement; 17% have more than that...
...thought. Stand-alone for-profit journalism on the web may in fact be dead or irrelevant, despite the modest rebound experienced by web sites like Salon in recent months. Yet a new form of journalism—nonprofit, collaborative, cheap and outside the control of professional editors—is rapidly changing forever the business of setting the national agenda. The phenomenon and the technology behind it are called weblogging, or “blogging” for short. Using free, easy-to-use software like Greymatter and Blogger, anyone can set up a personal website in minutes. While this...
...results came from an annual survey on giving to colleges and universities conducted by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a nonprofit group established in 1952 to promote corporate support for higher education. CAE is part of the RAND Corporation, a non-profit think tank...
According to the report, the major source of growth last year came from private foundations, which are nonprofit groups that must pay out about 5 percent of their assets to maintain their tax-exempt status...