Word: nonprofits
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...raising, corporate-bashing voice of the left for a half-century, with stations in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, in addition to WBAI and the flagship KPFA in Berkeley, Calif. But that voice is now being muffled in a way that would embarrass the sandal-wearing founders of the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, some of whom now stage their sit-ins in the next life...
...that's just not good enough," says board chair David Acosta, a Houston C.P.A. Vice chairman Ken Ford, an engineer with the conservative Housing Trade Association in Washington, says the challenge is to honor the social-justice mission while Pacifica grows. "But we are a corporation. It's nonprofit, but we have to operate as a business...
Retired horse trainer Janet Burleson created the nonprofit Guide Horse Foundation after a visit to New York City in 1999, when she and her husband saddled up on rented horses a few blocks from Central Park. Impressed by the animals' calm in heavy traffic and their mastery of right turns on red, the couple went back to Kittrell, N.C., and taught their 24-in.-high mare Twinkie to lead a blind woman through a mall. Burleson plans to donate 10 other pygmy horses--now in training--to the visually impaired...
More important, the NHTSA ratings are static, which means they do not take into account how a car handles. Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, last week criticized the ratings for this reason. Increasingly, the top-selling SUVs have a battery of onboard systems that help prevent a rollover, including antilock brakes, independent suspensions and computerized monitoring systems that adjust power to each wheel when a skid begins...
...seeing obscenely wealthy people in competitive fields like investment banking say they're missing something in their lives," says Robert Goodwin, president and chief executive officer of the Points of Light Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit that encourages and supports volunteerism in corporate America. "That need is being fulfilled by reaching out to others in the community in more ways than just writing a check." And it doesn't look like an anticipated economic downturn is going to slow down this trend anytime soon. "God help the company that doesn't support employees in their volunteer efforts...