Word: nonprofits
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...part because he left on his own and set himself up in a new location, Hayes is a success story among evacuees, according to a study of evacuees in five cities published this month by Appleseed, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. The study found that those who self-evacuated pre-storm and had someone to stay with fared better, with much of that category going to Atlanta, where only 16,000 of the 100,000 evacuees who came have left, versus those who ended up in Houston (150,000 of 250,000), San Antonio (15,000 of 30,000), Baton Rouge...
Something has to give. Nearly 38 million Americans who had volunteered with a nonprofit in the past didn't show up last year, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). That is a waste of talent and desire...
...place since 2001, and structures built under it tend to be the ones left standing after a 120 m.p.h. wind rips through. We know that for every dollar spent on that kind of basic mitigation, society saves an average of $4, according to a 2005 report by the nonprofit National Institute of Building Sciences. Then there's Mississippi, which, believe it or not, still has no statewide building code. Katrina destroyed 68,729 houses there. But this year a proposed mandatory code, opposed by many builders, real estate lobbyists and homeowners, ended up voluntary...
...rate. Marathon concluded that protecting only its employees and contractors wouldn't be enough. Because mosquitoes will bite anybody and Marathon expects the island facility to be productive for 40 years or more, the company adopted a more ambitious goal: it is working with its business partner Noble Energy, nonprofit organizations and the Equatoguinean government to stop transmission of the disease on the island within five years...
...yesteryear's dry lectures in a dusty church don't quite cut it with this generation of travelers. "Boomers don't want to be told about faith, they want to experience it for themselves," says Cindi Brodhecker of MTS Travel in Ephrata, Pa., which focuses on the religious and nonprofit market. "They want to explore where their ancestors might have worshipped. Or better understand their religious background." And, like Fisher, they often want to take the family, making it a multigenerational experience. "Today faith-based travel is no longer targeted to a niche market--church groups who want...