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...supermarkets throughout the United States and the developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired on a short-term contract basis and are subject to dismissal without...
...it—right down to the shoelaces on the used size-five Tacks—came courtesy of Fried. You could say he was the founder, president, CEO, CFO, general manager and head coach of this outfit. In fact, the Crimson City Hockey Clinic might become a non-profit organization in the official sense. Yesterday Fried filed paperwork with the IRS in hopes of achieving tax-exempt status...
...panelists, who all either attend or graduated from the KSG or the Graduate School of Education, each joined the non-profit program to teach for two years in inner-city and rural schools after graduating from college...
...original investors who helped finance the French Laundry, Keller is more a rare creative talent who needs to be nurtured--a Michelangelo in the Medici court--than an opportunity to squeeze ever higher returns out of their investment. "It is not about maximizing profit," says Joe Wender, an advisory director with Goldman Sachs in New York City who recently moved to Napa and sits on Keller's council. "Moving to New York is one of the most high-risk things he could do. It is Thomas saying, 'I want to create something great and unique in the New York market...
Despite the potential profits, there is little regulation of medi-spas. Guidelines mandated by the state and protocols for handling people in a medical environment exist, but for the most part, professional standards are lacking in the industry. For example, a medi-spa's skin-care products, which generate lots of profit, are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). About 75% of Denese's $3 million business, for example, comes from the sale of creams and lotions she developed and tested with chemists. For Avis, about 40% of the medi-spa's revenue is from cosmetic-product...