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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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Corporations headquartered in Germany—home to over three million ethnic Turks and approximately one million refugees from Syria—have responded to the crisis by contributing more than €16.7 The IKEA Foundation , a Dutch foundation established by IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, has committed $21.4 million ($17.87 million).

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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Today’s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

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You’re right, universities can be very expensive. Robert Lerman is an Institute fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute as well as professor of economics at American University and a research fellow at IZA in Bonn, Germany. Success Story: Helping Children Heal With Salesforce.

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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a student-governed, nonprofit organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with chapters at universities all over the world. Eighty schools responded, many of which had similar initiatives at their universities, and students from all corners of the country came together at Purdue.

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

Toan Lam is a multimedia consultant, university professor, thought leader, and former TV reporter and host who is on the forefront of the changing landscape of multimedia. Presenting the $400 Best Buy gift certificate for the community-choice award for best video is Toan Lam, founder of GoInspireGo.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

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I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. I mean, some of them, they have children, and they'll do missions that are geared towards the needs of families and mothers. I work at a university, and it's a private university, so we're not very for-profit, bottom line, go, go, go all the time. Oh, my gosh!

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany. A recent graduate of Rice University, Lum is working on her PhD in statistics at Duke University.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

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Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their Noël celebrations differ widely. In Germany, they have feasts with German pancakes called Pfannkuchen.

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