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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 semester in solitude

The Verge

We will be updating the FAQ and providing additional details going forward [link] — American University (@AmericanU) July 30, 2020. 1/4) [link] — GW University (@GWtweets) July 27, 2020. But they’re aspects of college social life that many students and university members took for granted in the past. and I’m not seeing that.”.

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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. That’s a whopping 36 gigatons of CO2 emissions per year.

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Lalo launches an app to memorialize loved ones

TechCrunch

The app also offers prompts, which were developed with guidance from board member Dr. Robert Niemeyer, a psychology professor at the University of Memphis who is an expert on grief. These prompts include things like sharing recipes or telling the story of how your grandparents met.

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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

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. Prior to attending ASU, she worked for Teach For America * Memphis.