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More charities are seeking — and getting — operating support

By Elizabeth Schwinn

When Earl Martin Phalen started Building Educated Leaders for Life, a program that prepares Boston inner-city students for college, he found it easy to persuade foundations to pay for tutors and books. But few would give him money for the other things that would transform his idea into...

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