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The findings begin with four examples of not-for-profit organizations—Larkin Street Youth Services, Sisters of Mercy, University of Notre Dame, and Stanford University—as well as one example of a public sector enterprise—San Francisco International Airport—whose souls are strong.
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During my recent visit to Larkin Street’s special facility for homeless youth with HIV/AIDS, I noted the house rules on a blackboard in the main lounge: no personal attacks, general respect, no talking down to each other, one person at a time speaks, no yelling, what is said in group stays in group: confidentiality. Nearby on a bulletin board were announcements of meetings and organizations available to the youth: life after meth; men’s support group; battering in relationships; job readiness class; free phone program to your family; LGBTQ organization; Haight Ashbury alcohol, sex, sobriety for men; job fair; deaf aids support group; quit smoking clinic; GED classes; Native American Health Center.
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A monthly highlight at the school was a small lunch serving of goat meat. The meat from ten goats fed the entire student body.
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Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Constitution
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Rose McArdle S.M., Mercy Undaunted: 125 Years in California (Burlingame, CA: Sisters of Mercy, 1979).
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By 2010, MBB’s mission was “Partnering with displaced women and girls in ways that alleviate their extreme poverty.”
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In California, an estimated 935 million hours of volunteer time was contributed in 2010. Source: “The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Research,” Corporation for National and Community Service 2010; cited in Blue Shield of California, Better Living Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2011), p. 7.
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In 2011, Notre Dame remained the only major U.S. university that forbade license holders (such as Adidas) to put the school’s logo on any product made in China because China does not permit independent labor unions. Source: “Notre Dame Alone Among Schools on China Goods Ban,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2011.
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At the university’s 1842 founding, Father Sorin vowed that he would build the greatest Catholic university in the world.
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85 percent of the undergraduates are Catholic.
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80 percent of the students live on campus, one of the highest undergraduate residential concentrations of any national university.
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Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education sends approximately 200 recent graduates to teach in understaffed Catholic schools in various states; through the University’s Social Concerns Seminars, undergraduates devote their semester breaks to providing assistance in Appalachia and other impoverished areas.
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It has always stood for values in a world of facts. One of Notre Dame’s goals is to provide a forum where the various lines of Catholic thought can intersect with all forms of knowledge in open discussion. Note: These facts about Notre Dame and those contained in the three preceding footnotes are from the university’s website and publications from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
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Since the Peace Corps’ 1961 founding, more than 800 Notre Dame graduates have been volunteers—more than from any other Catholic college or university.
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As proclaimed at the time by London’s Daily Telegraph.
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Source: The Founding Grant Society of Stanford University.
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In the university’s founding grant in 1885, Leland and Jane Stanford charged the board of trustees and all of their successors to maintain the highest standards of teaching and research. Cited by Isaac Stein, chair, board of trustees, in Stanford’s 2002 Annual Report, p. 16. And, that the university should “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization.” Cited by President John Hennessy in the Stanford Alumni Magazine (January/February 2004), p. 6.
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As quoted in Susan Weis, Stanford: A Portrait of a University (Stanford Alumni Association: 1999).
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Quoted by John Hennessy, President of Stanford University in the Stanford Alumni Magazine.
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The university’s founding grant required that none of the “Farm’s” land ever be sold.
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In 2009, Stanford raised more money in a single year than any other college or university: $640 million.
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Indeed, Stanford Engineering Professor Frederick Terman is widely credited for having mentored his students Hewlett and Packard and suggested their first marketable product as part of his vision of a knowledge-based region centered around Stanford. David Jacobson, “Founding Fathers,” Stanford Alumni Magazine (July/August 1998): pp. 58–61.
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SFO does not require taxpayers’ funds and annually makes a dividend payment to the city’s general fund calculated at 15 percent of concession revenue ($30.2 million in 2011).
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As examples: “Best Airport in North America 2008” by Skytrax, the aviation industry’s leading independent quality research organization; recipient of IATA’s prestigious Eagle Award (only the third time in history to have been awarded to a U.S. airport); “Best U.S. Airport for Business Travelers” by Arthur Frommer and MSNBC; the newly renovated Terminal 2 was the first LEED Gold-registered renovated airport terminal in the United States; ”Airport with Best Overall Concession Program” by 2012 Airport Revenue News Best Concession Awards.
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Thirty different federal, state, regional, and local agencies have jurisdictions over some aspects of airport operations or property.
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All SFO Airport Commission employees belong to a union.
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It would be possible to manage an urban airport to only “acceptable” standards in service and facilities as long as its cost to airlines was competitive.
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Opened in 2000 at a cost of $1 billion, the International Terminal was purpose-built to accommodate the huge airplane of the future (for example, Airbus 380), even though none of these large aircraft began flying until late 2007. “SFO’s Gigantic Payoff,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 14, 2011, pp. D1, D6.
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Terminal 2 (T-2) reopened in April 2011 and “was designed to make it a model of sustainable development and relaxing travel. We want to return the romance to travel, make it less stressful.” “Terminal 2 Takes Off,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 7, 2011, pp. A1, A12.
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Zenoff, D.B. (2013). Examples of Ingredients in Not-for-Profit Organizations’ Souls. In: The Soul of the Organization. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4966-5_2
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