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Herms founded the Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy, a non-profit campus security consulting firm that has been critical of HUPD in the past...
...exemption policy for non-profit organizations, educational institutions included, is long standing and has maintained bi-partisan support since its inception. The rationale is simple: non-profit organizations provide a benefit to society that more than balances the taxes that they would otherwise pay. Some non-profits, such as homeless shelters, provide direct services to individuals, which benefit the broader community. Others act more indirectly by increasing property values or bringing money to an area’s economy. Simply because Harvard is wealthy doesn’t mean that it no longer brings these benefits to the Cambridge community?...
Changing the world is no easy task, but getting a good position at a respected non-profit can make it significantly more plausible. Former presidents of PBHA have taken flight to Yale and Harvard Medical Schools, traveled to Uganda on the Rockefeller Memorial Scholarship, and become the Director of Development for Big Brothers, Big Sisters Philadelphia...
...trying to figure out who was responsible for this mess. The City of Cambridge? A 1999 City report on homelessness argued that “Cambridge offers a continuum of care through a coordinated-but-decentralized network of diverse programs and services operated by local government agencies, private non-profit organizations, churches, and homeless-led organizations.” And the City and its non-profit allies do seem to know a lot and care a lot about the local homeless community...
...There are no easy answers,” their report says. “Ours is a highly competitive industry with extremely thin profit margins. Initial estimates tell us that if all Sodexho employees’ wages were adjusted to living wage levels, we would effectively erase our annual net profits three times over...