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...nonprofit environmental organization will move its headquarters to Harvard property in Allston this April, marking the University’s first succesful letting of a vacant property in the neighborhood since the December announcement of the halt of construction on the Allston Science Complex...
...April 26, the Earthwatch Institute—an international nonprofit environmental organization—is set to occupy 15,000 square feet of space in the building that formerly housed WGBH’s media headquarters on 114 Western Avenue, University officials announced today. The institute will have a five-year lease with an option to renew for another five years...
...stability, then the government, individuals and the private sector should work in collaboration to make investing in 529 college savings plans or variants of the plan a priority. Students should be encouraged to get good grades, involve themselves in activities, and be model citizens to garner the endorsement of nonprofit organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By 2016, the Gates Foundation will have sent 27,000 low-income high school graduates to colleges and universities across the country...
...Over at the University of Texas, the nonprofit Austin Technology Incubator houses fledgling firms, plying them with business-plan advice, contact with financiers and lots of coffee over which to share ideas and solve problems. The incubator's 20-year record: more than 200 companies and thousands of jobs created. "Companies don't start unless they're resourced," says Rob Neville, who launched one company with the help of the incubator and is now scaling up another, Savara Pharmaceuticals, in anticipation of support from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund...
...rather than relocate to nearby Austria or another European country that allows homeschooling? Romeike's wife Hannelore tells TIME the family was contacted by the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which suggested they go to the U.S. and settle in Morristown, Tenn. The nonprofit organization, which defends the rights of the U.S. homeschooling community - with its estimated 2 million children, or about 4% of the total school-age population - is expanding its overseas outreach. And on Jan. 26, the HSLDA helped the Romeikes become the first people granted asylum in the U.S. because they were persecuted...