Non-profit organizations are not in business to make a profit. This simple but significant issue points to the absence of profits or losses in the non-profit world--a major difference as compared with the for-profit firms.
Dr. Seuss had no children and, despite authoring children's books, he was neither fond of nor comfortable around those of others. He would brag about a daughter, Chrysanthemum-Pearl, but she was a work of fiction.
Fanny Brice as she appears on the sheet music for Rose of Washington Square, which she introduced in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics. Although the stage and screen hit Funny Girl is inspired by the life of singer-actress Fanny Brice, the plot is mostly delicious fiction with an occasional fact thrown in. Fanny's family name was Borach. 2  After her career took off in burlesque, she changed it to Brice, but her mother was always known as Mrs. Rose Borach. 3  Fanny was not an only child, but the third of four. 4  Fanny's parents owned a chain of profitable saloons in Newark, New Jersey.