The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The robot is used by companies like universities, hospitals, and grocery stores, according to a blog post from DoorDash general manager Penn Daniel. DoorDash currently has the greatest share of the US food delivery market, around 48 percent, ahead of rivals like UberEats and Grubhub.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. He has spent his career as a biotech entrepreneur, in which time he’s built and taken public three biotechnology companies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” 25) Keith McLane Keith L.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. It will join campuses in Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Northern Virginia, with five more domestic locations in development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The product is geared toward public defenders for use in trials. “As But when it comes to helping improve the efficiency of the work that public defenders do, that was very much within my wheelhouse.”. “But Mehrotra and Jones-Dove met seven years ago as freshmen at the University of Chicago.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Emily , who founded LimeRed Studio ten years ago, has a portfolio spanning business development, design, user experience, writing, marketing, and strategy in both online and offline programs for multinational corporations, nonprofits, universities, boutique businesses, and prestigious consumer brands.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ben was the Midwest Practice Leader for Ernst and Young's Public Private Development Group in Chicago, and served as Director of Organizational Strategy for the international micro-payments company, beenz.com. Ben has more than 15 years of experience in policy leadership, innovation and strategic management.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In June 2020, taking advantage of a Chicago law requiring ride-hailing apps to disclose their prices, researchers from George Washington University published an analysis of algorithms used by ride-sharing startups like Uber and Lyft to set fares. Can the algorithms that ride-hailing and delivery startups use be fair?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Tan , University Service Learning /. Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming. AmeriCorps Coordinator. ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Surprised, I asked him how he could consider taking the job. Could I be doing more?

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, the Chicago Public Library system created new children’s spaces in their libraries based on extensive visitor research and observed how families and children move through the new spaces and then iterate based on what they find. A great example is what the Oslo University Hospital implemented.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It wasn’t the lingering exhaustion that made Christine Huang, a New York public school teacher, leave the profession. There are more than 3 million public school teachers in the United States. Teacher departures are a loss for public schools, but an opportunity for startups racing to win a share of the changing teacher economy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Needl founders Max Keenan, Angela Liu and James Liu are all University of Chicago alums and met at a hackathon. After university, Max Keenan was in investment banking at Moelis while Angela Liu and James Liu joined Microsoft. Now the company is making it available to everyone under public beta. The company has raised $2.5

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Following a public standoff earlier this week, YouTube TV and NBCUniversal have agreed to a “short” extension over the streaming service carrying several of the broadcaster’s channels. Universal Kids. NBC Sports Chicago. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Golf Channel. USA Network.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

Focus group participants from private, public, community, and historically Black colleges and universities told researchers that many of them had been recipients as well as providers of help since 2020. A]s is often the case, youth are at the forefront,” said Weatherford. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Implementing mobile smart stores is also much easier to pull off from a regulatory standpoint than sidewalk delivery, and it allows Tortoise to enter markets that are unfriendly to sidewalk robots, like New York and Chicago. Tortoise also provides joysticks to the businesses to remotely move the bots themselves if they’d prefer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Gates’ call is being met by startups and public companies hailing from everywhere from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, London to Los Angeles, and Berkeley to… um… Chicago.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The planned station, called “Orbital Reef,” will also include tech and services from Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University. Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital is going public via SPAC merger. The trend of space companies heading to the public markets via SPAC mergers is not over yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Karin Pritikin, who I met in Chicago in June and works for  Health & Medicine Policy Research Group , reached out to me to share some of the "hallway conversations" taking place in her organization about movements and social media.   There is now public acceptance of the idea.   We had newsletters.

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2021

August 17, 2021 The University of Chicago has announced gifts totaling $105 million from board members to launch a $200 million campaign in support of undergraduate financial aid. Independence Public Media Foundation awards grants totaling $4 million. UChicago raises $105 million for challenge campaign for scholarships.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mackenzie Scott garnered plenty of publicity in the past year, with very generous distribution of large sums to a diverse array of organizations. Prior to her work in research, she managed the Salesforce.org blog and oversaw the editing and publication of 250+ articles per year as well as e-books on AI for social good and more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To date, Artifact has produced podcasts for Clipboard Health, Onfleet, Yale, the University of Chicago and the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Chanin claims. Artifact aims to turn around episodes within five business days of an interview. ” Image Credits: Artifact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Eric Overman, Operation Smile, received the Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award, and Anne Bergquist, YMCA of Metro Chicago received the Special Marketing Initiatives and subcategory award. David earned his BS in Public Relations from the University of Texas with a minor in Business from the McCombs School of Business.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

A good in-depth description of how Voluntweeters works and what it can do can be found in this case study (PDF) of its response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake by Kate Starbird and Leysia Palen from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s product roadmap, and open offices in New York and Chicago to serve its U.S. Clients include Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Levi’s, adidas, NBC Universal and Nike. This means Good-Loop has now raised a total of $8.2 million to date. higher than the industry standard” says the company.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

Jennifer Brauer is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Her goal after graduating from the MNLM program is to continue to work towards a leadership role in the nonprofit sector where she can continue to make an impact on lives around her.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

She has a BS in Business Administration in Marketing and Advertising from Marquette University, and lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. Throughout her life, Ashley has visited over 200 public lands only to come home to find her favorite National Park, the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, right here in D.C.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). If you're looking for inspiration with a collections focus, the Underground Library is a compelling experimental space dedicated to archiving all media produced in Chicago. is in conflict with (currently, Iran).

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”. It was their employees in Chicago and Atlanta. But among the storm clouds, there were some silver linings. It wasn’t!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. In elementary school they were able to participate in a program hosted by the Montgomery Ward Corporation in Chicago. I’m not a teacher by training and I don’t have special skills.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

The NTEN Editorial Committee is a group of committed professionals that meet monthly to discuss content and strategy for the NTEN: Change Journal , our quarterly digital publication for nonprofit leaders. Jeanne Allen, Program Coordinator, Duke University Nonprofit Management Program. Laura Quinn, Executive Director, Idealware.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Here are some of my favorite things to read and listen to, but [they] are no means required before meeting with me: Capital Isn’t : What’s working in capitalism and what isn’t by University of Chicago. There’s a lot of value in taking the time to do research and find the top three investors instead of sending out a mass email blast.

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The Verge

APRIL 2, 2021

Various publications have created stylebooks to guide writers and editors — examples include The Chicago Manual of Style and the MLA Handbook. Each stylebook’s rules and formats differ slightly based on the content and audience, but consistency is universal. What software tools do you and your colleagues use for your work?

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Apple routes all downloads and purchases through the App Store for financial gain, exercising little oversight over the actual quality of apps — contradicting a public commitment to privacy and security. In Epic’s telling, Apple is a “uniquely powerful” company that exerts “unique control” over iOS devices.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) / Chicago, IL / $400. Nonprofit Best Practices / Chicago, IL / Less than $700. Whether your institution is public or private, large or small in size, secondary, college or post-graduate, each of us has a compelling reason to pursue advancement activities abroad.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Yes, the baseball card company is going public in a debut that could easily be read as a way to put money into the NFT craze without actually having to buy cryptocurrencies. The area is quickly transforming thanks to active investors, low cost of living and access to amazing universities that have a long history of supporting entrepreneurs.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Beth Gutelius, who studies the logistics industry at the University of Illinois Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development, sees the Bessemer union push and other Amazon protests as a symptom of tensions that have long existed in e-commerce but have been heightened by the pandemic.

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