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Obama Administration Responds to We the People Petitions on SOPA and Online Piracy
Posted by on January 14, 2012 at 9:09 AM EDTThe White House has responded to two petitions about proposed legislation intended to combat online piracy.
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Investing in Women
Posted by on January 4, 2012 at 3:55 PM EDTWe kick off 2012 with a brand new “Women Working to Do Good” blog from HelloGiggles. This week’s profile features Alexa von Tobel, the founder of a start-up focused on offering personal finance advice to women.
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Tech Initiatives to 'Build it Here, Sell it Everywhere'
Posted by on December 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM EDTLast week, Commerce Secretary Bryson spoke about his vision for American manufacturing – a vision he summarized as “Build it Here, Sell it Everywhere.” That inspired CTO Aneesh Chopra to share an update on three tech initiatives that have achieved important milestones this month in furtherance of that vision.
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'Investing in Innovation' Creates STEM Awards
Posted by on December 20, 2011 at 5:41 PM EDTThe Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation (i3) competition provides funding to school districts and non-profit organizations around the country to develop new approaches to longstanding challenges in education.
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NASA’s New Science Leader Brings Out-Of-This-World Creds
Posted by on December 19, 2011 at 2:28 PM EDTAs NASA announced today, there isn’t a better person to guide the plethora of world-class science projects currently in that Directorate’s pipeline than the "Hubble Repairman" himself, John Grunsfeld.
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For the Win: The Spark in All of Us
Posted by on December 6, 2011 at 5:43 PM EDTAdora Svitak, the youngest recipient of the National Education Association's Award for Outstanding Service for Public Education, describes what inspired her to lead the youth-organized conference TEDxRedmond for the second year in a row, with more than 600 audience members and 20 youth speakers.
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Giving Thanks
Posted by on November 23, 2011 at 4:22 PM EDTIn this special Thanksgiving edition of “Women Working to Do Good,” our friends at HelloGiggles profile Eva Radke, the founder of a not-for-profit organization that is creating socially responsible and sustainable solutions from media industry waste.
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Strengthening Nonprofit Leadership Together
Posted by on November 22, 2011 at 7:09 PM EDTJoshua DuBois, Special Assistant to the President and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and Jonathan Greenblatt, Special Assistant to the President and Executive Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, highlight the White House Forum on Nonprofit Leadership.
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Creative Cleveland: Inspiring and Training America’s Future Engineers and Entrepreneurs
Posted by on November 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM EDTAs President Obama has said, "The most common educational background of CEOs in the S&P 500 companies … the nation’s most successful, most powerful corporations … is not business, it’s not finance, it’s not economics—it’s actually engineering."
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Tapping the Power of Technology to Teach Children Around the World
Posted by on November 17, 2011 at 3:39 PM EDTTomorrow, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will join its Australia counterpart, AusAID, World Vision U.S., and World Vision Australia to launch All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development.
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