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...dual bottom line was the challenge for Lisa Schorr when she signed on with Pine Street Inn as director of business-enterprise development. PSI, New England's largest nonprofit for the homeless, provides shelters and services for 11,000 people a day, many of them considered hard-core unemployable. A program that offered job training and supplied used clothing to the homeless had inadequate funding. Schorr, who had just received her M.B.A. from Harvard, came up with a plan to expand PSI's work and make it financially self-sufficient. "The idea," she says, "was to kill two birds with...
...clothing a day. For the first time, the operation is becoming self-sustaining, and, says Schorr, "we are now funding a training program that we might otherwise have had to close." It's a better way of doing good, and for social entrepreneurs, that is the real bottom line...
...those with two or more children would not receive additional assistance if they had another child. And in 1999 he opposed a large expansion of the federally funded Children's Health Insurance Program--even though 1 in 4 Texas children is without insurance--and called for two more hard-line welfare proposals. The first, known as "one strike and you're out," would have required anyone committing a felony or getting caught with drugs to be kicked off welfare permanently. The second, "full-family sanctions," would have seen to it that if a mother receiving welfare benefits failed to cooperate...
...work began when Hilliard read The Endurance by Caroline Alexander. This history book tells the story of the failure of an Antarctic expedition, and how the crew managed the amazing feat of survival. The title of each photo is a line from a journal of one of the survivors: "All the Day Dreams Must Go" and "What the Ice gets, the Ice keeps...
David Hilliard: Photographs of Endurance is on display at the Bernard Toale Gallery through Feb. 26. The gallery is at 450 Harrison Ave. and the easiest way to get there is to take the Red Line to Broadway, cross the bridge in front of you when you leave the station, and then take a left onto Harrison. It's open Tue. through...