<p>i went to the LeadAmerica IDN program</p>
<p>intelligence, diplomacy, national security</p>
<p>worthless. good for meeting nice people, but it wont help your college apps look better</p>
<p>These are not scams, but may be nonprofits operating as a profit-making business.</p>
<p>People-to-People Summer Ambassador Program
National Youth Leadership Forum</p>
<p>a "nonprofit organization" is not one that does not turn profits. It is simply one that does not have one person designated as the receiver of all the profit it makes.</p>
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a "nonprofit organization" is not one that does not turn profits. It is simply one that does not have one person designated as the receiver of all the profit it makes.
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Not a true statement at all. Many nonprofits are actually run like a profit-making business, with executive compensation packages that put profit-making, (sometimes) tax paying corporations to shame. They just refer to their "profit" as "reserves," "equity" or some term like that.
<a href="http://www.salary.com/advice/layouthtmls/advl_display_Cat14_Ser70_Par149.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.salary.com/advice/layouthtmls/advl_display_Cat14_Ser70_Par149.html</a>
<a href="http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/nonprofit.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/nonprofit.htm</a></p>
<p>I apologize for hijacking this thread...</p>