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...leaders gathered yesterday in the Hauser Center to discuss the difficulties of managing a nonprofit organization. The event, entitled “Tensions and Trade-Offs for Nonprofit Leaders,” was led by visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy Alnoor S. Ebrahim. Ebrahim, a professor at Virginia Tech, explored the relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington D.C. for this lecture, said he plans to expand...
...also worth remembering that the vast majority of violent crimes - some estimates say 95% - are committed by people who are not technically mentally ill. So Virginia Tech was not typical, in this regard, and sharing mental health data is not a comprehensive solution...
...control proponents say it could be nearly 40% of guns; gun-rights groups say the number is under 3% - mostly just family members selling rifles to each other over kitchen tables. A bill to close the gun-show loophole in Virginia was killed by legislators after the Virginia Tech massacre. Congress has repeatedly failed to pass similar legislation...
...major lesson of Virginia Tech appears to be that most subsequent legislative changes happen only in the locale of the incident - and even then only incrementally, in a very narrow way that applies to the specific shooting and not to the gun problem generally. "I'm very concerned that there is this level of acceptance - that these shootings are just going to happen no matter what," says Thom Mannard, president of States United to Prevent Gun Violence. "What never really seems to occur is a real, thorough discussion on the fact that often the only common denominator in these tragedies...
...huge number of Indian expats staffing the tech firms of Silicon Valley, and the outsourcing of much of America's after-hours tech support to India, has led many in the West see this country as a nation of 1.2 billion software engineers. The Indian Institute of Technology brand owes much to Asok, the super-geek of the popular comic strip Dilbert, who claims to be "mentally superior to most people on earth," is trained to sleep only on national holidays, and can reincarnate from his own DNA. But studies point out that while India's pool of 14 million...