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Read more about the initiative in my last post here.

An article about the initiative in the Boston Globe seems to suggest that Chan / Zuckerberg are wondering this as well: «But many researchers are enthusiastic not just because of the funding Chan and Zuckerberg are offering, but their approach.

The October 2014 issue of RPM examines the Seattle - area school shooting in light of other information on school violence; delves into a raft of research on college - going rates; considers new information on student well - being in the U.S.; examines education issues in next month's elections; and shares information about initiatives in which the Rural Trust is involved.

Last month, a transit official in Pinellas County named Chris Cochran told me about an initiative in which Uber would experiment with a call - in dispatch system for riders who lack smartphones.

Not exact matches

The Levi's initiative — «Improving Worker Well - Being,» officially — is about getting an industry to recognize that workers aren't faceless cogs in giant profit machines, but people with feelings and needs.

These efforts are about all of us, and the initiative has inspired more than 200 communities to redouble efforts to create pathways for all youth and led to more than $ 500 million in private - sector commitments to do the same.

Strategy in cases like this is as much about saying «No» to things as it is about embarking on new initiatives.

Indeed, just about every successful new initiative I've taken in business since then has come from listening to customers.»

«It's not just about hitting that number in your class profile, it's about the broader initiative of changing the discussion at that boardroom table, changing the landscape of business,» says da Silva at Rotman.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

We also learn about Jenn's inclusion in the White House's «Champion of Change» initiative and a good rule for any small business owner to follow.

On her thoughts towards the opportunities in the UAE, Al Kaabi talks about the rise of support for women entrepreneurs, particularly in the investment space, as well as initiatives such as WOMENA, and the increase participation for female entrepreneurship.

During her tenure, Lee oversaw initiatives to improve Google's employee diversity, which she says is about more than just numbers and also factors in inclusion.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

It comes on top of a separate 2017 initiative from the company that gave drivers access to data about their speeding and braking habits, in hopes of boosting safety.

It might be during the last stretch of an important project, in the middle of a team meeting about an upcoming initiative, or somewhere else — sometimes, you just burn out.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

«Some employers have thought about bringing in more prevention and wellness initiatives, as well as dropping high cost health plans.

Airbus employs some 129,000 people worldwide, including 2,000 in Canada, and spends about $ 1 billion yearly here on aerospace - related initiatives.

If you're a Rebel, you'll probably respond terribly to hectoring (from yourself or others) about what you ought to do, but if you conceive of a new initiative as a way to express your identity rather than an obligation, you're likely go all in.

The home - sharing site's participation in the initiative is driven by what it's learned about its female hosts, who make up 55 % of its host community.

I've been pretty public about a failure that we had at the Case Foundation, which was a global water initiative in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rising Strong, her newest book (on The New York Times best seller list a week after publication), and also to talk about a major new online learning and sharing initiative (called COURAGEworks) that she will be launching in a few months with Oprah and others.

Ever since Amazon opened its first physical bookstore in late 2015, there's been a question burning through industry circles: This retail initiative can't really be about selling good old - fashioned books.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

Their choice, they say, is all about having the flexibility to invest in whatever initiatives they think will have the greatest impact, be they for - profit, nonprofit, or government sponsored.

Agrawal spoke with Entrepreneur about her Flood the Phones initiative, and the new challenges for business owners in a politically charged environment.

Prior to the rollout of Panera's new tech initiative, dubbed Panera 2.0, in 2014, Hurst and Shaich spent about 100 hours a week in a Massachusetts Panera location observing and pin - pointing exactly what was causing issues.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

Coles said that you want to have men involved in initiatives to recruit women and foster leadership among female colleagues in the same way you want white employees involved in initiatives about racial diversity.

I'm going to be meeting with BlackBerry and talking about the investments they've made in QNX, an additional $ 100 million, to really look at how they can adapt their software and security technologies with Ford and other vehicles and really help drive the autonomous vehicle initiatives in Canada.

I recently sat down with a lawyer friend who specializes in this stuff and he explained that the infrastructure is just about in place and, more importantly, some players in the field are taking bold initiatives, which is going to force the issue.

Nevertheless, several organizations and companies that are interested in drones are pleased about the Trump Administration's initiative.

A Fortune story published in 2015 about Silicon Valley health initiatives described Apple's Crossover center «as more of an Apple Store than a doctor's office,» regarding the center's decor and environment.

In a large corporation, it's about spreading around too many initiatives.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

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«Social entrepreneurship is about people starting any initiative that has a social, environmental or community objective,» says Siri Terjesen, a professor at American University who co-authored the report, in a press release.

When Berkeley first agreed to offer an executive program in the early 2000s, the school decided on a partnership with Columbia because it was in the midst of a number of initiatives and administrators were concerned about stretching the school's resources.

NEW YORK — As part of a new initiative to examine communities in more detail and enable locational comparisons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released an interactive tool that provides information about home prices, distressed sales, delinquencies and foreclosures at the national, state and county levels.

The total cost of these two initiatives would be about $ 1.6 billion annually, when fully in place.

You can read all about the design day here, but this project is in concordance with Dr Pepper Snapple Group's Let's Play initiative, working to increase the availability of play for children throughout North America.

Leveraging inside information about upcoming initiatives, current pain points, and leadership changes is the equivalent of having a triple double in your sales cycle.

Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas.

Take Japan: Tokyo shares American concerns about China but has seen the US withdraw from TPP in favor of a managed approach to trade that looks eerily similar to the US - Japan structural impediments initiatives of the 1990s.

These three initiatives would raise about $ 1.3 billion in 2015 - 16 rising to $ 5.5 billion in 2019 - 20.

LinkedIn's recent announcement about the redesign of LinkedIn Group pages has had me thinking much more about why B2B search marketers need to leverage this social media platform in support of SEO initiatives.

Based on these assumptions total available funds from these three initiatives would be about $ 1.2 billion in 2015 - 16 rising to $ 6.2 billion in 2019 - 20.