ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

One of the most well-known examples of 21st-century statecraft occurred in June 2009 when Jared Cohen, former member of the State Department policy planning staff, asked Twitter to postpone scheduled maintenance during the Tehran election protests in order to allow protesters to continue to use the social media platform to communicate and organize.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The terms advocacy and lobbying are generally used interchangeably to describe how nonprofits influence legislation and public policy. Carletha Sterling has been on the board of directors for Wings for Women, Tucson and A New Way Of Life, Los Angeles, California. However, volunteers can also be advocates. Talbert, M.

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Tableau

APRIL 20, 2021

As quoted in the Los Angeles Times , Emily Benfer, chair of the American Bar Association’s COVID-19 Task Force Committee on eviction notes “An eviction is not a single event in a person’s life. But without strong, compassionate public policy, it’s nearly impossible to protect people with rent debt from eviction. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Immigration Equality now has better visibility into its donors’ journeys and how informed those donors are about the issues and policies. Lori earned her MBA at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. The fundraising team now has much more capability with campaigns as well.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other. This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Many local police departments like the one in Los Angeles are experimenting with them. Foreign Policy magazine's Predators for Peace Drones is a short history of humanitarian drones. Image 2 : Simon Fraser University - University Communications / CC BY. The FBI and other U.S. What the Future Holds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Los Angeles Times was the first to report on the lawsuit). ” I reached out to a few experts to get their take and one of the more interesting ones was from Matthew Wansley, former general counsel of nuTonomy (which Aptiv acquired) and a law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

We shared that distinction with big players like American Honda Motor, Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Angeles Zoo. I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

We have Fellowships in issue areas where we bring together leaders working on specific issues, such as media policy and justice, LGBT policy and justice, electoral reform and racial justice, and we convene them over a year or more, and build a learning community that serves their work. It made a difference for them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Now the Sudan Divestment Task Force has divested over two dozen US states, 50 universities, more than 15 cities, and placed Federal restrictions on Sudan linked investments. This all started with one guy in Los Angeles thinking, "I have to do something.". My friend told me about a rally that was happening on the Washington mall.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published in the Journal of Urban Economics , examined weekday traffic data from Los Angeles County highways between 2017 and 2019 and compared it with cellphone GPS data tracking customer visits to fast food restaurants in the same county during the same years.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

AC: A lot of your product innovation has been around university students. We will through that path have had people opt-in and we remind them of all the policies around Tinder. We don’t understand all of the ways it’ll play out. But I think for sure, we’re going to see a big change in our psychology around these things.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

5 As for Uber and Lyft, these companies maintain policies that reward workers for low ride- cancellation rates—policies that are so tightly enforced, drivers are pressured to continue their rides even in the face of verbal abuse or physical assault.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 1, 2021

By: Kelsey Long, Project Policy Analyst for the Center for Vulnerable Populations in the Division of General and Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Project Policy Analyst for the Center for Vulnerable Populations in the Division of General and Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Taur , for example, is a British company that has just launched operations in Los Angeles , in large part because the U.K. They just need to get the policy to align with demand. Divergent Technologies , a Los Angeles-based manufacturing startup, raised $160 million in a Series C funding round. In the U.S.,

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai. But Amazon is less the ‘everything store’, more a universal logistics system. legal/privacy-policy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In January, several water providers declared their drinking water unsafe after wildfires roared through Los Angeles. Dorany Pineda, Associated Press The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

But those documents and other essential resources are developed through programs supported by federal agencies working in partnership with practicing engineers and earthquake experts at universities. Stewart is a professor of engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Jonathan P. Norbert College.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Devastating fires in Los Angeles may have also impacted spending. In addition to cold weather, the sales decline could in part point to fading consumer confidence as was reflected in a pair of recent surveys by the Conference Board and University of Michigan.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

Taylor is a professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles ; Eric Morris is a professor of city and regional planning at Clemson University , and Sam Speroni is a PhD student in urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Eva Rodriguez has earnedminimum wage at a Subway franchise in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles for more than a decade. million low-wage workers in California were victims of minimum wage violations, more than double the figure of just a decade earlier, according to a report from Rutgers University. The Washington, D.C.-based

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Facebook told me that it is taking a fresh look at its policies related to Boogaloo and that those policies would likely evolve to include additional enforcement. Twitter also suspended the account of an activist group called Distributed Denial of Secrets for violating its policy about the distribution of hacked data.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

Department of Justice on Thursday launched investigations into Stanford University and three University of California schools to ensure they comply with a U.S. In addition to Stanford, the review will cover the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, Irvine.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

Members include Los Angeles; Austin; and Asheville, North Carolina. Yet they prove that governments can craft targeted, achievable, and meaningful policies to address colonialism and enslavement. In the 1960s, the city of Athens, Georgia, used eminent domain to build dormitories for the University of Georgia.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

A meaningful percentage of Americans are living in an alternate reality powered by a completely separate universe of news and information. says its policy “is the opposite of the allegations in the complaint.” Tracy Brown / Los Angeles Times ). Chris Gilliard / OneZero ). Charlie Warzel / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We believe all companies should disclose their algorithms, moderation policies, and data flows to regulators,” then-TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said at the time. “We Eventually the transparency center will be a physical location that invited guests can visit, likely both in Los Angeles and in Washington, DC. Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

And the president signed it, reports Chris Megerian at the Los Angeles Times : The order directs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to request new regulations from the Federal Communications Commission to determine whether a social media company is acting “in good faith” to moderate content. . | Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

On a gray March afternoon at the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the U.S., But Trump, from his first day back in the White House, has attacked much of his predecessors climate policies in the name of energy dominance. They also said it was the biggest outlay of federal funding they’d seen toward the problem.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

At Minnesota State University in Mankato, President Edward Inch told the campus Wednesday that visas had been revoked for five international students for unclear reasons. At North Carolina State University, two students from Saudi Arabia left the U.S. after learning their legal status as students was terminated, the university said.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 16, 2025

Meanwhile, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has made similar steps rightward, introducing a bias meter to track ideological bents at the paper. But perhaps the most worrying development came at a private university. Some are refusing to go along with the new status quo.

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