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Giving USA 2024: Donors Gave More, Inflation Deflated It

The NonProfit Times

associate dean for Research and International Programs at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. The bequest number was estimated from multiple sources, according to Jonathan Bergdoll, applied statistician and associate director of Data Partnerships, at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

TechCrunch

note: I’m available for a call, too, Bill), “the people like Memphis Meats who do it at a cellular level—I don’t know that that will ever be economical.” Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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A road map for climate investors

TechCrunch

He was the first investor in breakout bio companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite and Memphis Meats. It’s cheap, on-demand, universal, portable, an order of magnitude more efficient than lithium-ion batteries, and much safer. Why do we still burn coal?

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

billion , including companies like Memphis Meats, which develops cultured meat from animal cells; NotCo, a plant-based food brand; and Catalog, which uses organisms for data storage. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Leaving the $3.2

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Why you want your nonprofit to fail

ASU Lodestar Center

We cannot do this in a vacuum- we must begin with a broader culture of evaluation and creativity within each organization. Chloe Silva is a graduate of the Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts program at Arizona State University (ASU), where she studied critical theory and Indigenous self-determination.

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Why comic-con is sacred to dedicated fans

Fast Company Tech

They flock to iconic pilgrimage places : Kings Cross Train Station in London for Harry Potter fans, or Graceland in Memphis , for Elvis devotees. Since 2018, I have been studying the realm of comic-con culture : fandoms built on comic books , superheroes, science fiction, anime and manga, gaming, and cosplay.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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Three and a half years before we adopted Jonathan, Cathy and I had sat together, tears streaming down our faces, when we heard the news that Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis. Racism has been in every culture ever since. The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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