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- The Social Entrepreneur MBA: Trained to Adapt
- MBAs are veering off the corporate path to launch businesses with profit goals and social missions — and they just might have what it takes to survive the slow economy. ...
- Articles 2009-02-09
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- Amgen Scientist Visits Los Angeles Classroom During Teach For America Week
- THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- For the 13 million children growing up in poverty in this country today, disparities in educational outcomes will limit opportunities in life. This week, Dr. Joseph Miletich, senior vice president of Research and Development at Amgen, will be one of more than 150 distinguished guest teachers...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- FedEx Corp. Donates $1 Million to Teach For America
- $1 Million Pledged Over the Next Four Years to Support Teach For America's Diversity Goals
- Research articles 2008-04-30
- Qwest Awards South Dakota's Teach for America $2,500
- SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The Qwest Foundation today announced an award of $2,500 to South Dakota's chapter of Teach For America.
- Research articles 2007-06-27
- Qwest Foundation Donates $5,000 to Teach for America
- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Qwest Foundation today announced a $5,000 grant to support Teach For America-New Mexico's movement to eliminate educational inequality in the state.
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Cisco Systems Foundation Awards $765,000 to 66 Bay Area Non-Profits; Teach for America, Local Teacher Training Program, To Receive Funding
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Today, the Cisco Systems Foundation announced a new round of San Jose Impact Grants that will support 66 non-profits within a 50-mile radius of Cisco's headquarters. A total of $765,000 will be awarded to non-profit organizations who provide services such as teacher training, technology and art...
- Research articles 2005-08-10
- Medtronic Foundation Donates $500,000 to Teach For America
- Grant Creates the First-Ever Medtronic Math and Science Seminar; Program to Provide Advanced Training for Future Educators
- Research articles 2007-08-08
- World Golf Tour™ Partners With PGA.com for Charity Challenge
- Proceeds Benefit Educational Charities SAN FRANCISCO -- World Golf Tour, in collaboration with PGA.com, today introduced the Beta version of its new online golf game with the launch of the PGA.com Charity Challenge Tournament. For the first time ever, players can get a taste of the world's most authentic...
- Research articles 2007-05-22
- Graduates move from Harvard and Yale to inner-city schools
- WASHINGTON AFP — Hundreds of graduates from America's most prestigious universities are temporarily setting aside their high-powered career ambitions to teach at inner-city schools, as part of a program to help children from low-income families. The program, "Teach for America", was founded in 1990 and annually recruits top graduates...
- Research articles 2006-06-18
- Eager ingenues. (Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, sends college graduates to teach in underprivileged areas; American Survey)
- UNDERGRADUATE theses at Princeton University rarely excite much interest outside Princeton. Some day historians may pore over the juvenilia of James Baker or Bill Bradley--but Wendy Kopp, a recent graduate now aged 24, has made a practical suggestion UNDERGRADUATE theses at Princeton University rarely excite much...
- Research articles 1991-07-06
- The Seattle Times Economic Memo Column.
- By Stephen H. Dunphy, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 1--BOEING, GOING, GONE: I happened to be in Chicago while all this Boeing stuff has been going on, there to help a daughter after a recent hit-and-run driver left her carless. ...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Americans for Victory Over Terrorism to Hold Teach-In at UCLA: America, Iraq and the War on Terrorism
- WASHINGTON, March 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- William Bennett, James Woolsey, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer address university students and faculty on the case for America's war against the Iraqi regime and worldwide terrorist organizations. WASHINGTON, March 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- William Bennett, James Woolsey, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer address university students...
- Research articles 2003-03-26
- A Little Innovation Inspiration
- A brilliant brief profile of managing out of a morass is in a new special issue of Smithsonian magazine, titled America’s Young Innovators. One of the 37 people (all under 36) profiled in the magazine is Ramon Gonzalez, who four years ago started the Laboratory School of Finance and Technology,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Is Charisma Overrated?
- The Find: You don't have to be "a jump-on-the-desk-and-shout-at-the-troops type of person" to be an excellent leader, argues one long-time manager. The Source: John Hollon writing on The Business of Management blog. The Takeaway: When Wendy Kopp, the founder and CEO of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Fmr. CNN Head to Chair Pres. Obama's Broadcasting Board of Governors
- The White House named four people to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, including the chairman of the group, Walter Isaacson, who is President of the Aspen Institute and former chairman and CEO of CNN. Isaacson, who ran CNN for 18 months from 2001-2003, is also the former editor of Time...
- News items 2009-11-21
- 7270: It's The Economy.
- From The Washington Post… Blacks hit hard by economy's punch 34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed By V. Dion Haynes These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington,...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Redskins Team Up With First Union-Wachovia, FedEx Express and Teach for America to Distribute 25,000 Books to D.C. Students
- Sports Editors/Football Writers & Education Columnists
- Research articles 2002-11-12
- Teachers assist hurricane survivors; Louisiana schools avoid brain drain.
- Many public schools in Louisiana were closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, worrying Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and state school officials that unemployed teachers would permanently move out of the area. To help avoid a brain drain, FEMA teamed up with dozens of teachers...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- Corporate Social Responsibility Weekly Recap
- NEW YORK -- The following releases focus on Corporate Social Responsibility and moved during the week of April 23 - April 30, 2008. ALL TIME-OFFS ARE IN EASTERN TIME MEMPHIS, Tenn.--FedEx Corp. Donates $1 Million to Teach For America (April 30, 2008 01:00 PM) Source: FedEx Corp. ...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- How I joined teach for America--and got sued for $20 million. (In the news: a quick glance at recent headlines--and where you can find the complete story).
- "An idealistic new Yale grad learns up close and personal just how bad inner-city schools can be--and why."--City Journal, Winter 2003. To read the full article, visit http://www.city-journal.org/html/ 13_1_how_i_joined.html.
- Research articles 2003-03-01
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