Word: nonprofits
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Separately, the council passed a measure of support last night for a pending state bill that would prevent Harvard’s properties in Watertown—and the properties of other nonprofit organizations—from receiving tax-exempt status. The resolution also calls for Healyto investigate ways that Cambridge can retain revenue from property purchased by currently tax-exempt organizations...
...which 70 students from the departments of photography, graphic design and printing meet for six hours every Friday. For the final project in May, instructors divided the class into teams and matched students with others from different fields. Each group had to create an original brochure for a real nonprofit organization...
Mary Cunningham, 40, a mother of three, found herself teamed with Jenna Geary, 23, a professional printer, and Jake Dehnert, 19, a talented, carefree high school graduate hoping to become a graphic designer. The trio's brochure, for a diabetes-research group, turned out brilliantly: the nonprofit is planning to distribute it widely. But getting there involved a series of sometimes bitter clashes, with Dehnert's becoming fed up with Cunningham's bossiness and both women's lashing out at what the two considered Dehnert's lack of responsibility. Says Cunningham: "When you're a mother, you're a mother...
...mistakenly noted that the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation oversees the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. It does not. The Kennedy Library is one of 10 presidential libraries that are operated by the National Archives and Records Administration, a federal agency. The Kennedy Library Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that supports the library and helps it conduct a wide range of public educational programs...
What the President didn't mention: to make all this happen, the University of Wisconsin would have to agree. It was at Wisconsin that biologist James Thomson first isolated embryonic stem cells in 1998. And it is at the affiliated, nonprofit Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that the patent governing such cells--whether they were isolated at Wisconsin or not--resides. Anyone who wants to work with them may well have to sign an agreement with WiCell Research Institute, which was set up to distribute WARF's stem cells...