Word: nonprofits
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Created by Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, the cards aim to inspire Jewish youngsters by helping them put faces to the names they learn in Hebrew school. Shugarman started a nonprofit company called Torah Personalities, which now distributes the cards. The most coveted one: Moshe Feinstein of New York City, an expert on Jewish law who died...
Tucked away in lower Manhattan, far off the museum track, the nonprofit Drawing Center has been quietly at work since 1977. Along the way it has become one of the few necessary art institutions to be born in the U.S. in the past 15 years. Necessary because, unlike the muddle of private and semiprivate vanity museums full of outsize contemporary art foisted on the American public in the late '80s, the Drawing Center really does stand for quality -- as against what is only spectacular or "relevant." It has never done a less than interesting show. Its new one, "Inigo Jones...
Ironically, it was the Government's failure to apply a safe-rather-than- sorry standard to another fruit that set off a similar fruit frenzy a week earlier. It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen. 60 Minutes aired the story, and actress Meryl Streep, now a leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias...
...Boston local members of the bricklayers union act as nonprofit housing developers. On low-cost land the bricklayers acquired from the city, they are building modestly priced homes that first-timers buy with mortgages subsidized by the state Home Ownership Opportunity Program. Eleanor Santosuosso, 45, will soon move -- along with her husband, three sons and her mother, 75 -- into a four-bedroom town house that the family won the right to buy for $97,000 in a lottery last year. Says she: "Even my mother says she has always dreamed of owning a home. She figured it was an impossible...
...pioneer and chief practitioner of this new art is Norman Whan, a former insurance telemarketing consultant, who runs a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization called Church Growth Development International. Whan, 46, a Quaker, specializes in starting up brand-new churches, using a target of 200 members as the number needed for a self-sustaining congregation. "When you ask 20,000 people," explains Whan, "you can get at least 200 to do anything." In addition to canvassing, Whan has conducted "The Phone's for You!" seminars for 2,000 Protestant congregations from Canada to Florida (cost per attendee: $295). Another...