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...former senator, a nonprofit founder, and a current Harvard graduate student—all of whom served in the U.S. military—discussed the meaning of leadership and public service in an intimate forum event last night at the Institute of Politics. The speakers included former Georgia Senator Max Cleland; Eric Greitens, who used his combat pay from Iraq and Afghanistan to start an organization that allows disabled veterans to serve their communities; and Maura C. Sullivan, a Harvard MBA/MPA candidate who served for seven months as a marine in Fallujah, Iraq. The conversation dealt with the speakers?...
...Read "Nonprofit Squeeze: Donations Down, Volunteers...
...trouble is that many donors may not be aware of the risks. Judy Norsigian, executive director of the Boston-based nonprofit Our Bodies Ourselves, says that when her organization makes presentations on college campuses, she consistently finds that women who are considering egg donation - or worse, those who have already donated - are uninformed about the potential health risks associated with the procedure. (Read "How Much Is a Year of Life Worth...
...registry. If there were a centralized repository for donor records, Ginsburg and Schneider believe, patient follow-up and long-term studies could be conducted. But the challenge is settling on the right kind of registry. After consulting with the ASRM, in January, advocates in the fertility industry founded a nonprofit voluntary registry of egg and sperm donors. It is still unclear who will pay for it, how it will work and what role the ASRM will play in maintaining it, but already industry critics say it's not quite what they had in mind. (Read "The Fertility Doctor Behind...
...recent op-ed in The New York Times by Yale chief investment officer David Swensen and his associate Michael Schmidt encouraged turning newspapers into “nonprofit, endowed institutions—like colleges and universities… [to enhance] autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down.” This is incredibly foolish, not to mention expensive: The last thing we need populating the news business is hundreds of lumbering, immortal white elephants sucking the talent out of the business of economically reporting news. Most damagingly, newspaper bailouts, endowments, and other artificial...