Purpose: Co-founded in 1992 by Gina Collins Cummings and Leslie Samuelrich to train young people to become grassroots environmental organizers. Finances: The group brought in about $450,000 last year, raising half of the money from environmental groups that work with Green Corps members. Address:…
Environmental Organizer Works to Woo New Talent
Leslie Samuelrich may be one of the environmental world’s major new forces, but she is the first to say that she is more like “Joe and Josephine Average” than the stereotype of an environmentalist “tree hugger.” ALSO SEE:Information on Green CorpsHow the Next Generation Is Shaping the Non-Profit…
By Susan Gray
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The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Purpose: Co-founded in 1993 by Andrew Carroll and the poet Joseph Brodsky to revive Americans’ interest in poetry. Finances: The group brought in $100,000 last year, from foundations, corporations, and individuals. Address: 2000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 313, Washington 20008; (202) 338-1109.…
‘Poetry Was Meant for the People’: a Mission for the ‘90s
To promote his charitable work, Andrew Carroll has crossed the country and set up shop in places as diverse as a maximum-security prison, a 24-hour Las Vegas wedding chapel, a highway toll booth, and Elvis’s “Graceland” estate. ALSO SEE:Information on the American Poetry & Literacy ProjectHow the…
By Susan Gray
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Photograph by Katy Tartakoff It’s 5-year-old Karmen’s dream to be a ballerina. But Karmen, who lives in Denver, was born with the AIDS virus and has spent much of her short life going in and out of the hospital. Karmen has fared better than anyone had dared to hope. Doctors thought she would never…
Alban Institute (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed June M. Costa, director of development at the Vesper Society (Oakland, Cal.), to be director of development. Albany Institute of History and Art (N.Y.): Appointed Diane Cameron, development director at Unity House (Troy, N.Y.), to be director of…
Maya Ajmera, 31 In 1993 founded the Global Fund for Children (http://www.shakti.org), in Durham, N.C. It runs a program called Shakti for Children (after the Hindi word for empowerment) that produces children’s books about cultural diversity. Royalties from the books go into a fund run by the group…
Company Offers Big Award for Creative Web Sites
A telecommunications-equipment maker plans to offer $250,000 in cash and in-kind services to non-profit organizations that come up with creative ideas for new Web sites. Ericsson, which is based in Sweden and has nearly 170,000 employees worldwide, will this month introduce the first annual…
By Debra E. Blum, Marilyn Dickey and Holly Hall