Word: nonprofits
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...June 2007, when Mayor Adrian Fenty named her chancellor. Her appointment stunned the city. Rhee, then 37, had no experience running a school, let alone a district with 46,000 students that ranks last in math among 11 urban school systems. When Fenty called her, she was running a nonprofit called the New Teacher Project, which helps schools recruit good teachers. Most problematic of all, Rhee is not from Washington. She is from Ohio, and she is Korean American in a majority-African-American city. "I was," she says now, "the worst pick on the face of the earth...
Anyone can lend money; I am able to lend genius. So when I started making small loans to Third World entrepreneurs through the nonprofit website kiva.org I felt as though I wasn't doing enough. That's why a few weeks after I sent $25 to a baker in Nicaragua, I decided I needed to stop being a silent partner and start calling him all the time with my ideas...
...leadership in this country and internationally.” Of the 24 selected leaders, three are former Harvard students: energy pioneer Amory B. Lovins ’68; prominent economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76; and Linda D. Rottenberg ’90, CEO of the nonprofit Endeavor. Rottenberg said she was thrilled with the honor. She described the other leaders as “people who have inspired me” and called the selection, “truly a privilege.” She went on to say that Harvard played a key role...
...every marathon Sprague ran, her nonprofit organization—In the Running—raised money for one continent-specific grassroots charity that addresses humanitarian or environmental issues, such as the AIDS epidemic in Africa or the protection of Antarctic ecology...
Over one third of Harvard undergraduates volunteer, and a survey conducted earlier this year by the Office of Career Services found that work in the nonprofit sector is of greatest interest to students. Glynn said she has also seen an increase in application numbers to CPIC’s programs...