Many nonprofit organizations steer clear of large, public-serving agencies due to concerns about becoming entangled in bureaucratic red tape. But new research suggests that some nonprofits may be able to better serve their ...
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2019
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On New Year's Day, 2019, Navy engineer David A. Tonn received his twenty-eighth U.S. patent, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Engineering
Jan 4, 2019
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Imagine a botanical garden, and acres of carefully designed, highly manicured, delicately pruned "zoos for plants" may come to mind. But at El Charco del Ingenio, a botanical garden and natural protected area in central Mexico, ...
Ecology
Dec 24, 2018
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When nonprofit groups coordinate large green infrastructure projects such as Chicago's 606 Trail, the risks of gentrification multiply significantly due to the fragmentation that occurs among nonprofits, government agencies ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2018
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The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday over what to do about an $8.5 million class-action settlement involving Google and privacy concerns in which all the money went to lawyers and nonprofit groups but nothing was paid to ...
Business
Oct 31, 2018
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Economists have found that in the United States, watershed groups have had a positive impact on their local water quality.
Environment
Oct 12, 2018
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The tax package pending in Congress includes a provision that would leave churches and other nonprofits, which by law must be nonpartisan, suddenly free to engage in political speech.
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2017
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Eager to help local communities during the 2008 financial crisis, Claire Dunning, then a fresh college graduate, took a program assistant position at a Boston foundation. A historian by training, she was struck by the nonprofit ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2017
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Nonprofit organizations that have declining expenditures—an indication of reduced operations—are more likely to seek new leadership, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
Aug 24, 2017
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The oldest member of the small population of endangered Puget Sound orcas has been missing for months and is now likely dead, bringing the toll of dead or missing whales to seven in 2016, researchers in Washington state reported.
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2017
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