Financial Times |
DNA donors could spell end of parents’ disease fears
Financial Times From his clinic in Newcastle, north-east England, Doug Turnbull is preparing for the probable launch in the coming months of a pioneering medical intervention with substantial benefits — and considerable ethical repercussions. His approach to … |
New York Times |
Sarah Palin Endorses Donald Trump, Which Could Bolster Him In Iowa
New York Times AMES, Iowa — Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, endorsed Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, providing him with a potentially … |
UK Fundraising |
FRSB publishes results of Olive Cooke investigation and related complaints
UK Fundraising The FRSB’s report also examines the stream of complaints received from other donors following the news coverage of Mrs Cooke’s death. Following the extensive and ongoing newspaper coverage, the self-regulatory body received 384 complaints about … |
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Startup DNAsimple Aims to Provide Genetic Researchers With Donor Samples
GenomeWeb DNAsimple hopes to avoid privacy issues by not allowing any breeches of anonymity, even if a researcher were to discover information potentially related to a donor’s health. And unlike Ancestry Health or 23andMe — which have launched research arms … |
TCPalmThe Gale Foundation: A Legacy of PhilanthropyTCPalmFunding from The Gale Foundation and other donors enable the FAU Harbor Branch Foundation to fund a research project involving the purchase of a Waveglider, which uses both wave-powered and store…
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Parents paid $161m for children’s ‘free education’
New Zealand Herald At the same time the country’s poorest schools were still getting more from decile-related funding than high-decile schools pocketed from donations and fundraising. However, although schools are happy the handouts keep going up, the New Zealand Post … |
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Spanish-language site fights kidney donation myths
San Angelo Standard Times In addition, many Latinos worry about related costs and don’t know that insurance generally covers most of the expenses for both the donor and recipient. Informate deals with all those issues. Besides the telenovelas, the site includes quizzes and … |
The Hill (blog) |
Republican proposes ban on lawmakers asking for donations
The Hill (blog) Jolly said he won’t call donors asking for money or sign his name to any fundraising missives, instead leaving money-related duties to his staff. Many current and former members of Congress have complained about the extended amount of time they had to … |
The Real Deal Magazine |
Real estate donors favor Heastie over Flanagan
The Real Deal Magazine … a lobbyist and former U.S. Senator who often makes political donations through LLCs named after real estate companies. Industry figures also made contributions to Heastie as individuals. The Related Companies’ Jay Kriegel, a prolific political … |
The Nonprofit Quarterly (blog) |
The Latest News Organization to Go Nonprofit Raises Further Impartiality Issues
The Nonprofit Quarterly (blog) As more and more news organizations become nonprofits—reliant on, among other sources, large contributions from major donors and big foundations—they continue to be dogged by doubts about the impact of those donors on their impartial coverage of the … |