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...product with each new bottle you buy. As any baby boomer who ever smoked more than a single joint knows, potency of herbs can vary from batch to batch. German manufacturers, though, produce identical batches of herbal remedies, as required by their law. This week the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit organization, published the first American standards for the potency of nine herbs, including chamomile, feverfew, St. John's wort and saw palmetto. Manufacturers that adhere to those standards can add the letters NF, for national formulary, to their labels...
...published by Harvard Magazine, Inc., a nonprofit corporation with three sources of revenue: about 50 percent from advertisements, 30 percent from the University and 20 percent from alumni contributions...
Companies donating school supplies get more than warm feelings in return. Most corporations that give merchandise to nonprofit organizations are allowed tax deductions on the donated goods. That is not to say the donors lack heart. Donations in 1997 totaled $3 million; they have jumped to $4 million so far this year. "Many businessmen simply want to help their community," says Walters. "Getting school supplies to needy kids is a good...
...scandal: AmeriCorps. The national service program is a favorite of PRESIDENT CLINTON'S, and its supporters were worried that it might be a target for his congressional critics. But the four-year-old program has won over skeptics by emphasizing its grass-roots structure and its alliance with respected nonprofit organizations around the country. Members are selected by and work for such groups as Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July by 58 to 37, winning over such former Republican critics as RICK SANTORUM of Pennsylvania...
...learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit group focusing on the importance of the first three years of life...