March 3, 2005

Fending for Themselves

By Rebecca Gardyn

Legal-services charity requires program leaders to raise money
New York

When Doug Lasdon, executive director of the Urban Justice Center, called Madeline Garcia Bigelow a little over a year ago to offer her a job, she gave him the brushoff.

"I told him I really wasn't interested," she says. "I had a pretty good gig where I was."

But Mr. Lasdon, director of a nonprofit legal advocacy organization here, wouldn't take no for an answer,

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