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...nonprofit places some 600 undergraduate volunteers a year in hospitals and community health centers, where they assist physicians who realize that their patients are grappling with such problems as hunger or homelessness. "The idea is that these factors should be treated like any other clinical indicator," says Onie. "Access to food and access to housing are just as critical to a patient's health and likewise should be screened for as a standard part of every patient visit...
Some of the protest centers on a new, nonprofit Book Rights Registry that the settlement would create. The registry would find authors or their heirs and pay them for the use of their newly digitized writing, whether a blockbuster novel, a poem included in an anthology or liner notes for a long-ago blues album...
...layoffs of Harvard employees, provides us with explicit proof that Harvard’s decisions have a significant effect on people within the school’s sphere of influence, regardless of whether those people are willing residents of that sphere. Meanwhile, Harvard occupies a peculiar position as a nonprofit educational institution—it does not contribute back to the community through property taxes despite its profound influence over communities and their members’ livelihoods. Harvard’s level of influence on surrounding communities impels Harvard to adopt spending and investment habits that make initiatives like...
...Hong Kong harbor, using solar collectors to power an electric engine that will shuttle Hong Kong Jockey Club members to the Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course. It's a modest start to cleaning up the city's smog, but if the ferries' owners at the Jockey Club, a nonprofit that holds a monopoly on gambling in Hong Kong and runs the golf course, demonstrate that the solar-powered ferries actually save the organization money, private businesses are likely to jump on board. The Australian company Solar Sailor, which designed the new ferries, claims that if oil prices remain high...
...murdered and raped, having gotten access to voter records that allowed them to mark Sikh homes with large Xs, and large mobs being bused in to large Sikh settlements. "On Oct. 31, there was primarily looting and arson attacks," says Jaskaran Kaur, co-director of Ensaaf, a U.S.-based nonprofit that works in the predominantly Sikh state of Punjab. "On Nov. 1, you see that everything happened very methodically - there were simultaneous attacks following similar patterns where the gurdwara was often attacked first before the residences and properties, and the death squads were able to make extensive use of state...