Word: nonprofits
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...older than 50, and consumers in that age bracket currently own 65% of the net worth of all households. But as a commercial company entirely focused on aging consumers, Saga remains unique. The U.S.'s AARP, for example, also sells products and has a magazine, but it's a nonprofit group more interested in public policy and political lobbying. So as businesses look for opportunities to court older buyers, they are increasingly turning to Saga for advice. It's got partnerships with a growing number of companies eager to attract the "gray pound," including Hilton hotels, Hertz and David Lloyd...
Embezzlement is a plague of all nonprofit organizations, given their threadbare accounting systems. But the nation's 19,000 Catholic parishes, which gather about $6 billion a year from congregations, "are still often medieval in the way they secure or don't secure Sunday collections," says Michael Ryan, a Massachusetts Catholic and former U.S. postal inspector who runs another watchdog site, Churchsecurity.info. At St. Vincent, for example, Skehan and Guinan had immediate access to offertory cash--and according to the police report had staff hide purloined stacks of bills in parish-office ceilings. Ryan and other experts emphasize that church...
...That's not likely to happen. Even though Riley and Jordan downplay the friction between the two organizations, the tension was apparent at this week's meeting. "I think that was confirmed," said Rafael Goyeneche, president of the nonprofit watchdog group Metropolitan Crime Commission. "People who were at that meeting who hoped to walk out with a sense of hope were disappointed. If there is a disconnect between police and state prosecutors, the only winners are the criminals...
...Screenplays and psychology converged under his auspices, as participants shared personal and deeply emotional tales of “falls from grace,” ranging from vomiting on a potential date to dashed National Spelling Bee dreams. Harvardwood, the eponymous organizer of the event, is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization founded in 1999 by Mia E. Riverton ’99, Stacy Cohen ’89 and Adam J. Fratto ’90. Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) and Office for the Arts co-sponsored the Saturday event. All participants were required...
...days when an employer or volunteer director would consider it quaint if an older person pleaded technophobia and asked to conduct business on paper. "The computer, if you can use it, enables you to stay in the workforce longer," notes Kristin Fabos, executive director of SeniorNet, a nonprofit dedicated to helping seniors learn computer skills...