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How an L.A. community of wildfire survivors is getting insurance to pay for contamination testing

Fast Company Tech

All sense of survivors’ guilt was fleeting for those residents whose homes remained standing after wildfires ripped through the Los Angeles area three months ago. The fine print of insurance policies can be frustrating and confusing, and the government has not stepped in to help.

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Movie theater trade group rebrands as Cinema United. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

In accepting his best director Oscar , he used his time at the podium to make a battle cry for the theatrical experience for filmmakers to keep making movies for the big screen and for studios to keep releasing them there. The headquarters of our biggest members are not in Los Angeles or New York.

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Inside the booming edibles economy

Fast Company Tech

In 2017, Nathan Cozzolino started Rose, a farm to edibles brand based in Los Angeles. The explosion of hemp-derived cannabis products has helped quicken the normalization of cannabis, says John Kagia , the director of cannabis policy in New York and an industry analyst.

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L.A.’s wildfires are making a tough rental market even more brutal. Here’s why

Fast Company Tech

The one-bedroom cottage with a woodsy vibe reminded Heather McAlpine of the home she lost to the brutal Los Angeles-area wildfires. But only two hours after seeing the listing, the rental was snapped up. Already, more than half of all renter householdsor a little over one million householdsin L.A. But in the L.A.

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One of the world’s largest architecture firms offers a blueprint for successful co-leadership

Fast Company Tech

and Brink is in Los Angeles), and why the co-CEO model isnt for every company. I did the co-office director role, then we each did co-regional roles, then moved into [the co-CEO] roles. They also shared insights into how they make their long-distance partnership work (Goldstein is based in Washington, D.C.,

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Collegiate entrepreneur hubs look to provide first support for would-be startups

TechCrunch

For example, David Lin started food delivery service Duffl two years ago while an undergrad at the University of California Los Angeles. Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe was a University of Maryland student before dropping out to launch a startup. ” University of Maryland's Dean Chang.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

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Karyn Cooks is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University and was recently inducted into Nu Lambda Mu , the International Honor Society for Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Social Entrepreneurship & Enterprise.