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A local economist whose views I respect wrote an article for today’s Sunday paper saying that there need not be so much gloom over the “giant sucking sound” of jobs being offshored from America. He says that the US also imports jobs; foreign companies—most notably the Japanese auto companies—have built plants here and created a lot of good jobs. He ...
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Why 'Bottom Up' Is On Its Way Up
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,574323,00.html DAVID KIRKPATRICK Why ‘Bottom Up’ Is On Its Way Up This new style of business, birthed by the Internet, is ignored at any company’s peril. FORTUNE Monday, January 12, 2004 What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating system? They’re all manifestations of a key ...
Read More »Volunteerism up
More Americans volunteered in 2003 than in 2002, in part because of a rise in teen volunteers, a new report says. Nearly 29 percent of the U.S. population volunteered between September 2002 and September 2003, up from 27.4 percent the prior year, says the report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For more…
Read More »Laying the Foundation for a Decade of Innovation
An article from onPhilanthropy that urges nonprofits to get out front and develop new technology or apply it in ways that are unique to nonprofits. (Right on!) It’s time to stop lagging behind and imitating the for-profit world. There are 10 interesting ideas about how to do this.
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