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...Lynne Wannan couldn't agree more. Since the government drastically cut funding for community-based child-care centers in the '90s, she has watched the sector stagnate. So she's about to launch Spike Children's Services, a not-for-profit company that will help desperate local parents' groups find the means to set up new centers. Community-based services are usually located in council-owned buildings and run with the help of parents' committees; working with local councils that have either land or empty buildings to offer, Spike would broker the loans and offer know...
...subsidize Harvard. We’ve got people here who can’t afford to live in their working-class houses because Harvard and MIT have attracted people here and housing costs are astronomical,” he says. “Harvard is not a not-for-profit institution.”A BITTER TASTE FROM THE PASTAllegations of improper profit-taking tainted Reeves’ first two terms. Political drama played out in 1994 when the Cambridge Chronicle accused Reeves of misusing a City credit card for personal expenses and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue investigated Reeves?...
Harvard is a not-for-profit educational institution. Surely it understands that people who choose to work at a university should earn less than their counterparts at for-profit corporations. Harvard should follow Yale’s lead. If Dave Swenson earns $1 million each year for the truly superior work he does, Harvard should be truly ashamed of paying any in-house manager eighteen times what Swenson makes...
...values the financial aid program because it allows students to work in the not-for-profit sector, said C.D. “Dick” Spangler Jr., chairman of the campaign and also former president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. A student with debt “tends to have to go to work as an investment banker,” he said...
...institute?the 44-year-old spiritual retreat once infamous as a flashpoint of the hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation, tel: (1 831) 667 3047. Oh yes, and you can only...