For nonprofits that open their doors to the public and count on ticket purchases for a chunk of their revenue, there’s the finest of lines between savvy marketing and selling out. Last week the Philadelphia Inquirer presented a fascinating case study, writing about the efforts of the city’s venerable Franklin Institute, one of the country’s […]
Today is March 14.
Or, 3/14.
Or, 3.14
Recognize that last number? It’s the first three digits of pi, 22 divided by 7, that magical equation that marks the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
The Exploratorium, the nifty San Francisco science museum, has been celebrating Pi Day for a decade now, and today will offer exhibits, […]
Not having to answer to Wall Street’s all-too-often unreasonable expectations can be a powerful incentive for an organization to shed its for-profit status. I suspect that is what’s behind a Connecticut biotech industry group’s decision to create a nonprofit arm dedicated to developing pharmaceuticals for Third World countries.
New Haven-based CURE has quietly spun off a […]
Over the last week, newspapers’ front pages and radio and TV newscasts have included a healthy share of nonprofit news, with Nobel Prizes being handed out to a variety of individuals and groups with no connection whatsoever to quarterly income statements or the SEC. Yet the immense validation conferred by a Nobel Prize will undoubtedly […]
Go ahead and sneer at last week’s news that researchers may have discovered the function of the appendix. Laugh at the thought that anyone cares. It’s a seemingly useless organ, after all, and the search to ascertain what it does in the human body, while a possibly interesting topic only should your next cocktail party […]
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