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After years of raising funds and support for others, Michael “The Rainmaker” Nebeker a man who has generated more than $100 million for a variety of humanitarian causes over the past four decades has reversed field.
Now, he’s doing it for himself.
His story is a case of one good thing leading to another. Mobile Surgery International the nonprofit he started three years ago is a direct result of the many years he spent watching U.S.-based medical nonprofits fly in doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, medical equipment, et al., to developing countries, where they would set up shop in the wing of a local hospital and deliver as much help as possible before returning to America, usually after a week or two.
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These Are 50 of the Best Private High Schools in America
By Lisa Borten, Stacker News
On 2/3/21 at 8:00 PM EST
America s private high schools opened long before their public counterparts and even before the United States was first established. The Roman Catholic Church in the 1700s started private schools in Florida and Louisiana while in New York (a former Dutch colony called New Amsterdam), the Dutch West India Company and Dutch Reformed Church set up private schools that filled the void left by the colonies lack of an education system.
That changed in the 1840s when the U.S. instituted a uniform public school system. To stay relevant, private schools changed from marketing themselves as the only option to portraying their education as the best option. To this day, private high schools have positioned themselves as fast-tracks to admittance into elite universities. Faced with the rigorous demands of the highly competitive college admissions process and increased pressure