Sentences with phrase «from nonprofit world»

Platform building is — I like the term audience development, which comes more from the nonprofit world, about thinking about how one reader's value extends over a very long period of time.»

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She is also the co-founder of Rad Campaign, a web agency that works with nonprofits to fight the world's toughest problems, ranging from climate change to health care reform.

And while the nonprofit organization hasn't officially started soliciting funds, it has already received donations from both Jolie and the World Bank.

SightLife, a Seattle - based nonprofit eye bank that extracts corneas from organ donors and distributes them to transplant centers around the world, is one of the largest such facilities in the U.S., with 96 employees and more than $ 14 million in annual revenue.

Though less than a year old, the niche co-working space houses 130 nonprofit and for - profit startups ranging from Toilet Hackers, a startup focused on providing sanitation around the world, to 100cameras, which teaches photography to marginalized children.

Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

And last month, with a microloan from Accion, a nonprofit microfinance organization that works with entrepreneurs around the world, Nuñez bought a drycleaner to expand his wash - and-fold service and add another dependable source of revenue.

Located at the heart of one of the nation's most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world - renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.

We've built a reputation for delivering real impact for our clients — from the world's largest companies to startups to nonprofits.

Outpouring of spontaneous generosity at 34th annual fundraiser sets new records 6/8/2014 — St. Helena, CA — The winning combination of renowned Napa Valley wine, talented chefs and stunning scenery inspired bidders from across the country and around the world to open their hearts and wallets, leaving behind $ 18.7 million for healthcare and children's education nonprofits.

TMG has produced a wide range of projects from world - class fashion shows to entertainment events and nonprofit projects in Las Vegas, Hollywood, South Beach, Houston, Phoenix, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Venice and many more renowned destinations.

A new study from the Family Online Safety Institute, a nonprofit on a mission to «make the online world safe for kids and families,» found that teens are not only more connected than ever, increasingly using mobile devices and social networks, but they understand privacy and safety issues in a way that previous generations didn't.

These stars will be auctioned on eBay (www.ebay.com/swarovski) from November 8th through November 15th with all proceeds going to the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making a world of difference for seriously ill children and their families.

De Blasio defended donations to his political nonprofit from conservative donors who had reasons to curry favor with City Hall, saying that in the «real world,» people give to Democrats and Republicans all the time.

The nonprofit sector isn't for everyone, but for many, particularly those making the transition from academia, the values and culture inherent in the nonprofit world may offer an exciting and rewarding career choice.

Work from the Universal Ecological Fund, the U.S. branch of Argentina - based nonprofit Fundación Ecológica Universal (FEU), sketches a somber portrait for world hunger by the end of the decade.

Published by the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general science organization, Science is your source for the very best research from around the world and across the sciences.

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

Since then, as co-founder of the nonprofit Partners In Health, he has brought medical treatments, from basic primary care to antiretroviral therapies for AIDS, to millions of the world's poor.

From there, the animals — which were the subjects of a 2 - year legal battle over their «personhood» — were supposed to go to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, says Molly Polidoroff, Save the Chimps» executive director.

The researchers did not include mild retardation resulting from lead exposure, which is a big problem in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, said Ken Jaffe, president and executive director of the International Child Resource Institute, a nonprofit organization that works on children issues around the world.

The folks at Blue Ocean Institute, an East Norwich, N.Y. — based nonprofit that studies and promotes the world's oceans, have created FishPhone, which uses a color scale to rate fish from green to red (green being the ecofriendliest).

«The coal industry is desperately looking for positives, but most appear to come from their own PR campaigns claiming that coal is the solution to energy poverty or that coal is amazing,» James Leaton, head of research at the nonprofit Carbon Tracker Initiative, said of the industry's ongoing slide in the online journal World Finance.

Google has partnered with the nonprofit to launch Open Heritage, which uses CyArk's data to create VR tours of 27 cultural sites around the world, from the Buddhist temples of Bagan, Myanmar, to the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado.

The International Congress on Naturopathic Medicine ICNM is a nonprofit devoted to education, uniting annually healthcare experts from across the world.

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He has worked all his life deriving satisfaction from the nonprofit work he does in the world rather than the money he doesn't earn.

Nonprofit Global Nomads Group has a mission of building connections across borders for kids around the world, and they make use of the empathy - building capabilities of VR to allow viewers to walk in the shoes of young people from other places.

The New York City - based College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the Advanced Placement brand, said more than two - thirds of the 134,000 ostensible AP - course syllabuses submitted for review by teachers from 14,383 secondary schools around the world were immediately approved.

It's not the unraveling of public education — it's the reinvention of it to take advantage of innovation that comes from partnerships with the nonprofit and for - profit worlds.

Last weekend, at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning, surrounded by educators, representatives from the nonprofit and business worlds, global education experts, academics, and education advocates of all stripes, I found it inspiring how committed the group as a whole was to not just improving family engagement in schools, but expanding engagement beyond the family, to the community in general.

We imagined scenarios where students would work side by side with social entrepreneurs, startups, nonprofits, and government to innovate on existing initiatives and get their hands dirty doing important work with people from all over the world.

Eventually he began creating YouTube videos, which turned into Khan Academy, a personalized learning nonprofit with thousands of videos, articles, and interactive exercises accessible from all over the world.

One is Ed Boland, a career changer from the world of nonprofits.

He has integrated best practices from both the nonprofit and corporate world to balance his approach and efforts to bring long - term sustainability to organizations, while providing high quality programming and services to youth.

Her career in youth development started right after she graduated from college and joined AmeriCorps VISTA, where she was introduced to the nonprofit world.

Ross says teachers and administrators need vendors or nonprofits to provide filtering tools to curate valuable resources from a «tsunami» of resources available to help create authentic, real - world learning that aligns to curricula and strategic plans.

Many of our grantees, from school districts to nonprofits to universities, also deeply consider how their work fits in with reforms happening around the world.

ALLi is a nonprofit association of authors from around the world who self - publish their books.

In the Google Hangout video directly below, author Kim Hruba contributed a portion of the funds she raised to Freedom From Hunger, a nonprofit that offers micro-loans to women entrepreneurs in the twenty - four most poverty - stricken countries in the world.

We are a nonprofit organization formed by individual members - professionals who practice coaching, including Executive Coaches, Leadership Coaches, Life Coaches and many more, from around the world.

The congress will bring together hundreds of tourism leaders and professionals from government, business and nonprofit sectors to promote tourism development to and across Africa from around the world.

Shiner, who has been at the helm of the Warhol Museum since 2008, has described the move from museum to auction house as a «natural transition»: «There's much more porosity in the art world now between the market, the collector base, galleries and the nonprofit world of museums,» he said.

In November of the same year, Brooklyn's nonprofit Pioneer Works hosted the Alternative Art School Fair, with presentations by more than fifty educational initiatives from around the world.

The New York attorney general alone oversees about 80,000 nonprofits, ranging from world - renowned institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera to little - known historic house museums.

The tiled walls and ceilings of Shishawy's dining rooms and dance floors twinkled for the many admirers — including the artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al - Maria, the MoMA curator Stuart Comer and the Artforum publisher Knight Landesman — who came out to toast the art quarterly and nonprofit devoted to bringing discourse on art and culture from the Middle East to the rest of the world.

International Call for Applicants: 2018 -2019 Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (CA) Deadline: January 10th, 2018 Founded in 2007, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (JTHAR) is a nonprofit artist residency, which invites artists from around the world to create work... Continue reading →

She decided to make the Aurora nonprofit, and built an influential board of directors from the art world, including Menil Collection director Ned Rifkin, Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Iles and Ralph McKay, manager of Sixpack Film, one of the world's premiere independent producers.

Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.