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Rewards of a Diverse Nonprofit Board: Making a Commitment to LGBTQ and DEI

Board Effect

In addition to the people represented by the LGBTQ community, racial inequality has also proven to be a destructive force. Nonprofit boards that make diversity , equity, and inclusion a firm priority benefit by improving their efforts with fundraising, advocacy, decision-making, and problem-solving. As stated by Una Osili , Ph.D.,

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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

This is going to be BIG.

They make money off of equity and stock option gains, as well as investment partnership interests that are taxed at lower capital gains rates. It’s not like you can choose between a fully detached house in Manhattan versus one in Indiana. The very wealthy don’t make their entire income through wages. You are gone and never coming back.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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Become a Key Member of the Tech Community The Hope: You’ll form friendships with potential technical co-founders and work on small projects together. You have good community building skills and quickly become other people’s friends. There’s no guarantee your future technical co-founder will be there.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

Our guest today is Valerie Lopez, Vice President of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Cision , leading global provider of earned media software and services. In her role, Lopez is responsible for providing vision and leadership to the diversity, inclusion, and equity program across Cision’s global organization.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And why I say that is to see the medical community begetting to do rapid prototyping, to explore, bringing potential vaccines to test at the pace they're doing. Today is day 10.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

I trust her to hear out the community, gather all the data, and, unlike our current Towering Ineptitude, actually make a decision—one that she believes is right for New York, not just politically popular. Unlike being the Mayor of, let’s say, South Bend Indiana, it’s not exactly the kind of thing you can learn on the job.

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With the Federal Government Doing Nothing, Communities Step Up

VC Adventure

In it we talk about the continued failure of the federal government to help small businesses and highlight some encouraging ways that local communities have stepped into the void to help. Op-ed: Communities across America rush to save Main Street as federal relief for small business stalls. Last week, the U.S.