Word: nonprofits
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...study conducted by William C. Kidder, a researcher with Testing for the Public, a nonprofit organization in Berkeley, Calif., reports that Asian-American enrollment at three University of California (UC) law schools--UC-Berkeley, UCLA and UC-Davis--showed no marked change since...
...hype here: there are nearly 11 hours of buried treasures, most of them from the first half century of movies, all rescued and restored by nonprofit institutions. Among the finds in this handsome four-disc set are footage of Orson Welles' 1936 "Voodoo" Macbeth and Marian Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador...
...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...plan counter that it's wrong to discriminate against groups that provide valuable social services simply because they have religious roots. And there is evidence from at least once source that faith-based groups are getting plenty of business - and attracting plenty of volunteer participation. Independent Sector, a nonprofit organization that supports the President's initiative, has issued a study underlining the social impact of America's 353,000 religious congregations. According to that report, nine in 10 congregations provide services beyond spiritual programs, including health, education and arts programs. It's precisely those programs, Bush emphasizes, already established...