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Question from an aspiring non-profit endowment manager

Published on August 14, 2008 by Marquis in Bschool experience, Education, Joint degree, Non-profit

Hey, everyone. After the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes this weekend, I was seriously thrown for a loop. Now that it’s all settled in, I thought I should get back to addressing entries because my Inbox is getting extra, extra backed up.

The email below is from a prospective applicant to the joint degree program that I completed at Stanford. He’s interested in becoming a non-profit endowment mnager after school and is wondering whether he might be a fit for the program. He’s asked some questions that might be better suited for folks in the admissions office, but… Read the rest

Take a second to help cure ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)

Published on October 3, 2007 by Marquis in Non-profit, notable organizations, other sites

As you guys know, I’m a big fan of spreading information about organizations that I believe to be worthwhile causes. Well, I got an email from my man Nate this morning about a non-profit org called Prize4Life that he started last year with one of his HBS classmates, Avi Kremer.

During his first year at HBS, Avi was diagnosed with an neurological disease called ALS and, instead of giving up hope, he pushed himself toward finding a cure. Here is an article about Avi and what he’s doing to work toward a cure for ALS: http://www.prize4life.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

Prize4Life has been a… Read the rest