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...Kennedy School's Associate Director of Career Services Jennifer N. Armini said the money raised will support students who choose to spend their summers working for nonprofit or public organizations...
According to the Globe, "Harvard officials and other sources yesterday confirmed the university's interest in a proposal to keep 'the Harvard plan' nonprofit through a money-raising deal involving major Boston teaching hospitals, the data processing company Perot Systems, and other investors... Investors are being asked to lend money in exchange for IOUs called 'surplus notes,' or surplus bonds...
...these food police who would tell us so forcefully what to eat and drink? Perhaps the best known--and best behaved--is the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington. The CSPI earned its biggest headlines for its 1994 expose of movie-theater popcorn, a study that revealed the supposedly healthy snack to be swollen with calories and swimming in fat. Dieters were stunned, and many movie houses quickly switched to lighter oils in their popping machines--earning the CSPI kudos...
Welsh runs the nonprofit Harlem Educational Activities Fund, which bankrolls the chess programs at Mott Hall and the Harlem Chess Center (with donations from, among others, a charitable arm of Time Warner, parent company of this magazine). Much of the credit for Harlem's love affair with chess goes to Maurice Ashley, 33, a grand master and the highest-ranked black player in history. Ashley, who established Mott's chess program a decade ago, saw the game as a way to foster academic achievement and self-esteem. "I call chess intellectual karate," he says. "It's about setting a concrete...
...campaign's effects can already be seen in some areas on campus. Campaign money has helped establish and support academic centers including the Hauser Center for the Study of Nonprofit Organizations, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Carr Center for Human Rights. Campaign-funded renovations include Widener Library and the Barker Center...