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...been made aware of the horrific neglect that Melville suffered, a largely unpublicized audit claims that her death was only part of a much greater problem. According to a 2007 report leaked to the Australian on Feb. 6 and written by psychologist Howard Bath, then the director of a nonprofit organization that specializes in support for child, youth and family services, the Northern Territory child-protection system is near collapse. Today, just over two years after Australia apologized for six decades of a policy that forcibly removed Aboriginal children from their homes, a new inquiry into that system is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia's Aboriginal Children: A New Inquiry | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

Some backstory: in 2008 the conservative nonprofit Citizens United produced the anti-Clinton film Hillary: The Movie and arranged to distribute it using money from the group's corporate treasury rather than from its political-action committee--a crucial distinction under the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reforms of 2002. In a 5-4 ruling, the court found that distinction unconstitutional. If freedom of speech protects the right of individuals to air their political views, it decided, then that right extends to incorporated groups--like businesses, labor unions, Planned Parenthood and Citizens United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Campaign Finance and the Court | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...event at OM raised $6,300 through a $20 cover charge and donated proceeds from select menu items, according to Rahim B. Kanani, a research associate at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Support Haiti | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...similar effort, Upstairs on the Square—located across from OM—made between $25,000 and $28,000 during its day-long fundraiser on Monday. Proceeds from breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the restaurant were donated to Partners in Health, a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit that operates community-based clinics in Haiti and eight other countries, according to owner Mary-Catherine Deibel...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Support Haiti | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

Such a system, Catania says, might create five to 10 nonprofit dispensaries around the city, which would have to be at least 1,000 feet away from places like schools, parks and other dispensaries. In contrast, for years Los Angeles has had hundreds of dispensaries, privately owned, with a 500-foot rule. But its city council passed a revised dope law just hours after D.C. outlined its own, adopting D.C.'s 1,000-foot rule and cutting the number of dispensaries allowed to around 150. (See a brief history of medical marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana Finally Heads for D.C. | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

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