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...What's surprising about Trung is not his profit projections-just about everyone is giddy about Vietnamese investments these days-but where he's making his money. While the nation's fledgling official bourses in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are surging, Trung and many other local punters prefer to invest where the action is even headier: he typically trades in an unsanctioned market composed of websites and Internet chat rooms frequented by thousands of investors who swap unlisted shares of partially privatized Vietnamese companies. Participants call this the over-the-counter (OTC) market, a reference to exchanges abroad...
Last night’s event featured Lisa Pic-Harrison, who is co-chair of the Somos Latino/as Coalition, a non-profit organization that represents and serves the LGBT Latino/a population in Massachusetts. Pic-Harrison discussed Latino and Queer Issues after a film screening of “On the Downlow,” which tells the story of two gay Latino...
...Gates Foundation, which has an endowment of $33 billion according to its Web site, is the only non-profit organization to boast a larger endowment than Harvard University, which has just over $29 billion in its coffers...
...Habeas corpus is a right that was enshrined in the Magna Carta to prevent kings from indefinitely and arbitrarily detaining anyone they chose," added Vincent Warren, executive-director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal foundation that is also party to the case...
Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is "managing the marriage of money and nonmoney without making nonmoney feel like a sucker." In software, where IBM and other companies charge billions of dollars to install and run otherwise free Linux systems, this seems to be working--in part because Linux volunteers can make money from their expertise and there's a clear understanding of what one can charge...