Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial display opened this week, after years of local arguments over how, if at all, the site should be preserved. A private nonprofit foundation raised $1.3 million to create the museum, and Dallas County, which owns the building, built a reception area with a $2.2 million bond issue. The Kennedy family, which was known to oppose the project, was not consulted on the plans...
...would put them farther behind. In their zeal to raise down payments, young buyers are raiding their retirement accounts -- and duly paying the penalties -- or ceding part of the equity in their homes to outside investors. Others are turning for help to state-financed programs and innovative private and nonprofit housing developers...
...less intense than when he was obsessed by wealth. Habitat staffers say a strange but not uncommon sight is the gangling Fuller bounding up to the headquarters, clutching a fistful of trash he swooped up on his walk to work. He functions as the spiritual leader of the ecumenical, nonprofit outfit. Much of his time is spent visiting local Habitat affiliates and proselytizing. Once or twice a year he takes hammer in hand and helps finish off a Habitat home with the volunteers. Full-time helpers in Americus, Ga., are paid only their lodging and a weekly "pig check...
...without the least background in business, he founded the TACOLCY Economic Development Corp., Inc., now one of the nation's most successful nonprofit community developers. He did not simply want to build nicer ghetto housing; he wanted to build an economy. "It was real new for us," he admits, "because it was an economic approach to solving problems, as opposed to social intervention...
...Mechai, a former government economist, launched a private nonprofit organization, now known as the Population and Community Development Association (P.D.A.), to foster family planning and distribute birth-control devices. With growing encouragement and financial support from the government, the Bangkok-based P.D.A. has made population control a national mission. Today some 70% of Thailand's couples practice family planning. Mechai estimates that , without his program Thailand's population, currently 54 million, would have grown to 64 million...