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...plans on working for a non-profit organization...
With U.S. Office Products, Ledecky proposed to buy up a number of smaller office supply firms to leverage bulk purchasing for profit. He contacted 100 firms. Ninety-five said no, he recalls...
...effort to raise funds for the re-launch of DoubleTake magazine, a non-profit journal founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles ’50, one generous philanthropist will win a date with Matt Damon...
...growing about 15% a year. The amount of food distributed since 2000 has risen 30%, to 42.3 million lbs. a year, and fund raising has jumped 33%, to $9 million--at a time when economic turbulence has squeezed philanthropic giving. Mulqueen's weapons: strategies adapted from the for-profit world, combined with good old military discipline. Mulqueen endorsed such concepts as training, branding and competitive bidding--all of them borrowed from the corporate-management textbook. "What distinguishes us from other charities is that I run this like a business," he says. "Even though we're a monopoly here, I want...
...companies, but Halliburton has by far the largest share--$17 billion from the U.S. and British governments, several times as much as its closest competitor, Bechtel. Halliburton and the other large contractors work on a cost-plus basis--the cost of its work (negotiated in advance) plus a defined profit of up to 3%. The entire 2004 budget for the Coalition Provisional Authority is $13 billion and pays for about 2,300 much smaller reconstruction projects, separate from Halliburton's, none of which are subject to competitive bidding rules. Halliburton's initial no-bid contract to restore Iraq...