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...Monica Iken. What she has in mind is "a place to heal, a place of peace." Her husband Michael was a 37-year-old bond trader who died on Sept. 11, 11 months after they were married. Shortly thereafter, she founded September's Mission, a nonprofit group dedicated to creating and sustaining a memorial. Of the 2,823 Trade Center victims, the remains of only 1,058 have been identified. Iken's husband is not one of them. "It's important that we understand that's sacred space," she says. "It's a cemetery without tombstones...
...awarded 86 victims up to $300,000 each. This marked the first time the archdiocese's finance council had gone against the professed wishes of Bernard Cardinal Law. Even if the plaintiffs go on to sue and win in civil court, Massachusetts law restricts the maximum payout from a nonprofit organization to $20,000 per victim. If the archdiocese had stuck with the settlement, the councilors said, it would have been unable to provide for other victims--including possibly Shanley's, who have begun filing their own civil suits. --By Amanda Bower. With reporting by Matt Kelly/Boston
...nonprofit and nonpartisan organization founded in 1981 by a group of American journalists, publicizes and protests offenses against journalists. In specific instances, the CPJ acts on behalf of journalists facing physical or legal threats—including kidnapping, imprisonment, harassment and censorship...
Terrorist groups are not motivated to come to the bargaining table, said Mark Schneider of the Brussels-based nonprofit International Crisis Group...
...Ibson, vice president of government affairs at the National Mental Health Association, agrees. "Parity is a broad way to address the second-rate way in which mental health is treated in terms of both insurance coverage and federal funding." The NMHA, which is the country's largest and oldest nonprofit group addressing issues facing people with mental illness, issued a statement Tuesday, praising the President's proposal, but urging Congress to provide full coverage to all mental health disorders. "We strongly support the Senate measure," says Ibson, "which provides a prohibition on discrimination by diagnosis. To limit parity to some...