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FORGET ME NOT Where do old Web pages go to die? If they're lucky, the Internet Archive, a nonprofit project to preserve the history of the Web. The archive recently marked its fifth birthday by launching the Wayback Machine web.archive.org) Type any URL into this free service, and you can see what the page looked like in the old days (1996). The archive has already devoted a special collection to the Sept. 11 attacks...
Schmidt's creation, GuideStar.org has grown into the nation's premier nonprofit database, offering financial information on more than 850,000 organizations. With GuideStar feeding the search engines of such major giving sites as JustGive.org and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, it's small wonder grant seekers are trying to shape up their balance sheets. Schmidt has already noticed fewer math errors. And many groups have transformed their self-descriptions on the heavily scrutinized tax forms from terse one-liners to polished donation pitches...
...Public trust is the most precious asset these organizations have," says nonprofit adviser Bob Boisture, who notes that the IRS hasn't expanded oversight in more than two decades, despite explosive growth in the charitable sector. That's where Schmidt comes in, using the information superhighway to create a national infrastructure for nonprofits. No more one-way streets...
...then, that Maaroufi, a hotly pursued terrorist in Italy, lives freely but under surveillance in Brussels. He heads a nonprofit organization of his own design, "the Institute for the Research and Study of Civilization." He says he researches Islam with funds solicited from Muslims in local mosques. "I am a Belgian citizen, and I respect the Belgian law," he insists. Maaroufi has acknowledged that he has visited the apartment of the arrested Tunisians in Milan, and he told Time he had traveled to Afghanistan last November, "but that doesn?t mean I know bin Laden...
...councillors who holds down an outside job—Maher works with the nonprofit Cambridge Family and Children’s Service—he also has had one of the toughest tasks on the council during the past term...