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Interest rates are up and venture capitalists (VCs) are hurting, so companies are suddenly interested in government grants

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Unless you’ve been completed sheltered from the larger financial and information ecosystems, you’ll know that interest rates have gone from “zero or near zero” during 2009 – 2021 to “much higher than that” (at the time of this writing, even the federal discount window rate is 4.75%).

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Interview with Carol Baroudi, Author of Green IT For Dummies

Tech Soup

Carol Baroudi is the lead author of the 2009 Wiley. ” TechSoup did a blog piece on the free HP sponsored shorter version of Green IT for Dummies back in 2009. In 2009, I officially switched my formal research focus to green IT and sustainability. It was published in 2009. publication, Green IT For Dummies.

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NPOs Consistently Better Than For-Profits on Jobs

The NonProfit Times

percent from 2007 through 2010 — which includes the December 2007–June 2009 recession. Job losses during the recession were most pronounced in industries with relatively few nonprofits, such as construction and manufacturing. Nonprofit employment jumped 5.5% while employment in private-sector for-profit businesses declined 8.1