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...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...
Looking at Pine Street from a manager's point of view, Schorr saw an underutilized resource. PSI had no means of sorting all the clothing, and half of it was being sold off cheaply in bulk. The program was costing the organization $200,000 a year more than it got under a contract with the commonwealth. Her analysis showed that by training Pine Street's men and women to sort the clothing by size and type, the donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer...
...Bush, it was the first win in an education-reform program that came to include new teacher-training initiatives, beefed-up funding and new diagnostic tools to identify problem readers in the earliest grades. Standardized-test scores in the state have been climbing every year, with improvement among blacks and Latinos moving especially fast...
According to U.S. diplomats, Kim finally realized that with his cold war benefactors gone, he has no choice but to open up to other countries for help in rescuing his devastated economy. Does this mean Pyongyang will curb its missile program, as the U.S. wants? Not yet. A senior North Korean delegation will visit Washington next month, and the missile negotiations "will be difficult," says a Clinton aide...
Following up a Wednesday night forum on the future of ethnic studies at Harvard, the Harvard Foundation sponsored Sanchez's speech in an effort to raise awareness about Harvard's lack of an ethnic studies program...