Staph Meets Nurse Betsy

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At holiday time you badly want to like nonprofits, but so many don’t seem worth the investment.

We all know them. The foundation with the morphing mission. The one with the agenda as long as Michigan Avenue. The dinner committee that lives to serve the culinary whims of the second wife of its vice chairman. And of course the institutions that suffer from March of Dimes syndrome, outliving by half a century causes for which they were created.

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