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Red Cross CEO also tells Detroit Economic Club lessons business can learn from nonprofits
DETROIT, Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Model business practices from the private sector have helped the American Red Cross weather a difficult economy and enabled the non-profit to focus more keenly on its mission, Red Cross President and CEO Gail McGovern told the Detroit Economic Club today.
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In October 2000, Congress passed the Department of Transportation appropriations bill (PL 106-346), which included a provision requiring every federal...
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NEW LEBANON -- New Lebanon's industrial park has secured its first private sector business.
Essex Management plans a January ground-breaking on a $230,000 building at the park. A second-quarter occupancy is planned.
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"The entrepreneur concept in indigenous communities, in my own and my family's experience, has never existed. We have always been told that we don't h...
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The Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech will hold its fourth annual postdoctoral "bridge to business" program this summer to help alleviate the national shortage of business school faculty.
The program prepares individuals with doctorates in nonbusiness, but related, disciplines for new careers as business faculty members. Six participants will begin classes next week in finance, marketing and management tracks.
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To: FOREIGN EDITORS
Contact: Kirk Monroe of Business Roundtable, +1-202-496-3269
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Members include City and County economic development leaders along with private sector companies that support the organization. Legislative affairs and lobbying work In 2010, NORED's Legislative Affairs committee will prepare a White Paper defining the economic development priorities of the organization for the next two years.
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The number of women-owned businesses in New Jersev and the nation is on the rise, but behind the positive figures are roadblocks that hinder the growt...
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WASHINGTON -- The vast majority of small business owners - an overwhelming 82 percent - support the concept behind a proposed new retirement plan that...
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NEW YORK, April 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Arguing that "traditional fixes" are not working, Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR) released a major report today calling for the complete removal of the private sector from the hurricane insurance business in Florida. AIR calls on the Florida legislature to establish a privately run state plan for the hurricane wind portion of homeowners insurance coverage.
The report, AT THE TIPPING POINT: THE HOMEOWNER INSURANCE MESS IN FLORIDA AND HOW TO FIX IT, finds, "More and more private carriers have left the state, others are again threatening massive cancellations and prices are through the roof. Companies have dumped high-risk properties into the state- run 'insurer of last resort,' Citizens Property Insurance Corp., and have kept the lower risk busin...