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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets

GeekWire

After cutting budgets and paying debts, the institute has now re-emerged as a leaner enterprise with new philanthropic support. It also was set up as a nonprofit that operated like a biotech company, taking discoveries through early-stage research to manufacturing and clinical trials. The project is funded by the U.S.

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A renowned community of quilters is taking on copycats — and winning

The Verge

A long-time Gee’s Bend partner , the Souls Grown Deep Foundation — an Atlanta-based nonprofit formed by the family of the first major private collector of Gee’s Bend quilts — knew that direct access to the market could help address this issue and more. “But you don’t know my story. Quilt by Katie Mae Pettway. Photo by Stacy K. Allen for Nest.

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When your job helps the rest of America work

Vox

“Child care workers, the people providing this labor and this service that is absolutely vital to the continuing of our economy and families, are so underpaid that they can’t afford to cover their basic needs,” said Asha Banerjee, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. Starting a day care isn’t easy.