Car sharing catches on.I love your magazine and enjoyed the recent article about product service systems and car sharing ("The Service Economy" Currents, March/April 2006). I was a little bummed, however, that you only mentioned the two for-profit for-prof·it adj. Established or operated with the intention of making a profit: a for-profit organization. car-sharing companies and didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do acknowledge the existence of the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. car-sharing outfits across the country, such as CityCarShare in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , I-Go i-go: see go. in Chicago, Hourcar in the Twin Cities and PhillyCarShare in Philadelphia. There are also a few other for-profits that have sprung up around the country, including one in Cleveland. I'm on the board of PhillyCarShare, and we're the only car-sharing game in town, with 2,500 current members and growing by leaps and bounds. A partnership that we entered into with the City of Philadelphia enabled us to get to the "Top 50" of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's annual Innovations in American Government Awards Program. We're waiting to see whether we get into the "Top 7". Jeff Friedman www.phillycarshare.org Philadelphia, PA |
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