Word: nonprofits
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...become cabdrivers, nannies and security guards. "There was a real need to match these people with their skills," she says. But her employer's "mission was limited," she says, and management wouldn't budge. So Leu quit, and seven years ago she launched Upwardly Global, a nonprofit that helps white collar immigrants network, prepare résumés and search for a suitable...
Starting a nonprofit is like starting a business except you have to drum up donors, not investors. But today's donors are just as demanding. They want to see a business plan at the start and measurable results along the way. You will have to put in long hours with little or no pay to keep the enterprise afloat. Leu, who needed two years to get her first grant ($15,000), started out by spending 30 hours a week in her "survival job" as a bookkeeper and 30 more building Upwardly Global, which now has offices on both coasts...
...Since Foothill is a state-managed school, run jointly by the New Mexico Department of Education and the Children, Youth and Families Department, it cannot by law accept donations the way a normal public school would. But with the help of the PTA, a nonprofit supporting agency, Murphy hopes to be able to raise money for extracurricular activities that states funds cannot be spent on - such things as athletic uniforms, prom dresses and pizza rewards for superior academic performance. She could not have even afforded to put on the upcoming open house, which she hopes to do once a semester...
This bright new examining room is as good a place as any to study the anatomy and evolution of attitudes about abortion. About half of American women will face an unplanned pregnancy, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, and at current rates more than one-third will have an abortion by the time they are 45. Since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973, no other issue has so contorted U.S. politics or confounded values. When does life begin? Who should decide? And is there anything that can be agreed on to make the hard choices less painful? Much...
...members of this group were looking for. To get it, they had plunked down $459 each to ride a snow tractor to the summit and sleep in bunk beds for one of the two dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with three talks on that most...