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By Associated Press • Nov 13, 2013
A federal judge has dismissed charges against a West Virginia man accused of sending a threatening letter to President Barack Obama.
A U.S. Secret Service forensic handwriting analysis showed that 20-year-old Ryan Kirker of McMechen didn't write the letter.
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September 1, 2015 — By Larry Kramer
Earlier this summer, we held a pair of conference calls that offered grantees an open forum—a kind of philanthropic town hall—to question me and our senior staff members about anything and everything. The calls, which we hope to hold annually, are part of our ongoing effort to be transparent and to create open lines of communication with grantees so we can learn and better meet the needs of the communities we all aim to serve.
Participation was open to grantees across our program areas, and the 400 or so people who called in reflected the full gamut of issues we work on, including conservation groups and local arts organizations in the Bay Area, bipartisan think tanks in Washington, development groups in sub-Saharan Africa, and more. Given this diversity, we weren't surprised to get some specific questions about individual lines of grantmaking. What was a surprise—though in hindsight perhaps it shouldn't have been—was to see how many of the answers to those questions were nevertheless relevant across our programs.
For example, one participant asked about our commitment to holding the rise in average global temperature to less than 2˚ Celsius, a longstanding goal of our climate work that seems increasingly difficult to achieve. Environment Program Director Tom Steinbach provided an answer that sheds light not only on our climate strategy, but on our approach to goal-setting generally. Tom thus explained how he and his team have considered carefully whether the 2˚ goal is still the right one by talking to grantees, fellow funders, and other experts. He cited two reasons for concluding that it is: first, because the goal reflects what the best scientific evidence continues to tell us is needed to avoid the worst effects of climate change; and, second, because it provides an ambitious aspiration worthy of our—and our grantees'—efforts. Similarly, a grantee of our Madison Initiative (which focuses on reducing the effects of political polarization in Congress) asked how to connect with others working on the same issues. The answer, from initiative Director Daniel Stid, highlighted the value of grantee convenings, which all our programs arrange as a way to encourage formal and informal networking and collaboration as well as the sharing of knowledge.
A few questions came up more than once, indicating their salience to grantees working across program areas. For those who weren't able to join the calls, here's a quick recap of answers to some of these key questions:
Can you share any tips or best practices for grantees to keep in mind in preparing for the transition of Program Officers and Directors?
This question came up on both calls and was also emailed to us in advance of the calls by grantees in a couple of program areas. Hewlett Foundation program officers and directors serve eight-year terms, baking a certain amount of regular transition into the way we work. As my colleague Ruth Levine, director of our Global Development and Population Program, noted in a recent blog post, "[W]e have more planned transitions than most organizations. And we have built some practices over the years to mitigate risk (and hopefully reassure the anxious) on all sides." Ruth's post provides more detail on practical steps we've taken to ensure smooth transitions—from documentation to orientation processes. More generally, though, it's important to understand that staff transitions at the Foundation do not trigger radical shifts or the abandonment of a line of grant making. New staff bring new ideas and new ways of thinking to the work: that's one of the key benefits of having term limits. But our strategies exist independently of the staff members who conceive of and execute them, and we are equally committed to sensible continuity. So my best tip is not to think of such transitions as events for which "preparation" is needed. Instead, communicate: get to know the new officer or director and begin to develop the kind of working relationship and partnership that helps both you and us. Lines of communications between program staff and grantees should always be open—especially around staff changes—but please know that we've given a lot of thought to how best to execute these transitions, with minimal, unnecessary disruption to our support for grantees.
How are you thinking about collaboration and synergies across your different program areas?
Several grantees asked a version of this question about the Foundation's approach to collaboration between and among our programs. As I noted on the call, there are definitely examples of programs partnering on individual grants or strategies. For example, our support for efforts to improve children's education in developing countries benefits from the input of staff from both our Education and Global Development & Population programs, which share an interest in the topic. We do our best to spot opportunities for partnership, and our senior staff is eager to seize opportunities that crop up. However, because our programs pursue specific strategies in their different areas, which are substantively disparate, and because we try to avoid creating unnecessary bureaucracy, we have not formalized collaborative structures across programs.
What are you priorities for funding in the future?
Our main program areas—education, environment, global development and population, performing arts, and philanthropy—are longstanding areas of concern for the Hewlett Foundation, and our commitment to them is undimmed. Of course, we strive also to be nimble and responsive to changing circumstances and new opportunities, which we do by launching or shifting strategies within these programs; by inaugurating time-limited special initiatives (like our recently announced Cyber Initiative), and through our Special Projects program. Still, our signature programs have roots that stretch back to the beginnings of the Foundation—to what Bill and Flora Hewlett cared most about—and these remain our enduring priorities.
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To all those who participated in the calls: Thank you! We learn whenever we hear from you, and appreciate the opportunity to do so. We hope you found the conversation as useful and informative as we did. For those who weren't able to join, don't be shy! You can always ask whatever you need to know and share whatever is on your mind. Like I said above, the lines of communication are open.
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August 28, 2015 — By Ruth Levine
If you're in the business of running a nonprofit, there are bad grants and there are good grants. And then, once in a while, there are great grants.
A bad grant is one that is underfunded, relative to what needs to be accomplished; or one that commits an organization to activities that distract from its institutional mission; or one that locks in a relationship with an overly demanding funder. A good grant is one that provides adequate resources to carry out a project that is central to the institutional mission with a minimum of muss and fuss. And a great grant? Well, that's general operating support—unrestricted funds that can be used in more or less any way, and reported on with materials the organization already has, such as its audited financials and annual report.
General operating support is precious to organizations whose work is dependent on project-by-project outside funding. It's what gives them the ability to pursue activities they know are important, but no donor has yet seen as a priority, providing a measure of independence. Unrestricted money helps organizations retain staff during lean periods, and make investments that help to take institutional performance to the next level: a new website, increased capacity to implement a communications strategy, professional development for staff, remodeling an office, trips by the executive for fundraising, and a thousand other things that benefit the entire organization.
General operating support is particularly precious because it's so hard to get. These days, many foundations are reluctant to offer unrestricted support and, despite some positive signals (including recently by the president of the Ford Foundation), I have my doubts about whether we'll see widespread changes in the philanthropic sector anytime soon.
At the Hewlett Foundation, we've always been able to offer general operating support to a significant share of grantees, and we know from their responses that this is both deeply appreciated and rare among their funders. But it's never enough.
If what you need the most is the hardest to get, you have to start getting creative. And organizations we work with are getting creative in lots of admirable ways—some that expand their sources of support, and others that reconceptualize what they're trying to get funding for.
One way organizations try to expand support when they have a friendly institutional funder is to ask for a matching grant as the basis for a fundraising campaign. While creating some risk for the grantee, matching is a tried-and-true way to mobilize support from individuals, jumpstarting a base of support from people who might be persuaded to continue contributing even without an ongoing match to motivate them. In this way, even a small general support grant multiplies itself into a larger unrestricted pool.
When it comes to reconceptualizing the ways to use funding, clever organizations transform mundane institutional needs into initiatives that can attract funders who prefer discrete projects. With a little creativity, many institutional priorities can be "projectized."
Imagine, for instance, that a nonprofit knows it needs to undertake strategic planning, upgrade staff skills, and revamp the website. Rather than dipping into reserves to pay for these necessities, a smart fundraiser could create a project called "Impact 2020" and pull together a narrative that explains how these activities fit together and, in combination, will prepare the organization for the future. With a realistic timetable and budget, that package has a chance of attracting funding from a supportive donor that likes specific, time-limited projects. Sure, it's not as efficient or flexible as general support, but organizations may be able to get funding that otherwise wouldn't be available, and perhaps even accelerate the sorts of institutional changes that tend to languish when there's no external mandate to make progress.
Separate from conceptualizing institutional investments as projects, smart nonprofits make sure that projects serve institutional needs by creating budgets that reflect the true cost of the work, clearly and accurately. When the resources required to maintain or strengthen institutional capacities are lumped into something called "overhead," funders balk. But most funders know that project costs need to include support for, say, computers, the financial management team's time, and even some support for professional development for staff. Some (not all) funders will permit items like that to be listed as direct costs rather than aggregated into overhead. But that will only happen if organizations accurately estimate the full institutional costs as they prepare project budgets, and think about how to present the information clearly and in ways that demonstrate how each line item contributes to the project aims.
None of this magically solves the problem of too many bad grants and too little unrestricted support for the nonprofit sector. But for individual organizations applying some strategic thinking in their funding relationships, it can help get the most out of the great grants, and make the good ones even better.
August 20, 2015 — By Dana Schmidt
Our Dana Schmidt on new evaluation of citizen-led assessments from @R4Development: http://t.co/RKfLk82wKl pic.twitter.com/ysYejebTGO
— Hewlett Foundation (@Hewlett_Found) June 27, 2015
Our Dana Schmidt on new evaluation of citizen-led assessments from @R4Development: http://t.co/RKfLk82wKl pic.twitter.com/ysYejebTGO
In June, we shared findings from an evaluation of citizen-led assessments we commissioned from Results for Development. Since the report's publication, which showed how engaging citizens in large scale, household-based assessments of children's learning can help focus education debates on learning, a number of colleagues have shared their own perspectives on the evaluation and my blog post about it (which was also translated into Spanish).
Three @Hewlett_Found take-aways: (1) Thanks to citizen-led assessments, education debates are now focused on learning http://t.co/L6a2aai2z0
— Martin Tisne (@martintisne) June 24, 2015
Three @Hewlett_Found take-aways: (1) Thanks to citizen-led assessments, education debates are now focused on learning http://t.co/L6a2aai2z0
Three @Hewlett_Found take-aways: (2) Citizen-led assessments provide clues for what and how to monitor the SDGs http://t.co/L6a2aai2z0
— Martin Tisne (@martintisne) June 24, 2015
Three @Hewlett_Found take-aways: (2) Citizen-led assessments provide clues for what and how to monitor the SDGs http://t.co/L6a2aai2z0
3 @Hewlett_Found take-aways: (3) Though citizen-led assessments influenced the education debate, they haven't impacted outcomes enough (yet)
— Martin Tisne (@martintisne) June 24, 2015
3 @Hewlett_Found take-aways: (3) Though citizen-led assessments influenced the education debate, they haven't impacted outcomes enough (yet)
Here's a round-up of the conversation so far:
Charles Kenny from the Center for Global Development reflected on how Schooling Ain't Learning, and Learning Assessments (Alone) Ain't Reform. He concludes: "Assessments are the vital first step in learning the scale of the problem and finding out what works to help fix it. And the national and international attention that the efforts of groups like ASER and Uwezo have brought to the learning crisis has been invaluable. If they — or others — can help empower the legions of volunteers involved to act as agents of change, they might help foment an education revolution."
@Integrilicious take on our evaluation of @asercentre @uwezoislearning and other citizen-led learning assessments https://t.co/EyarMX0qvW
— Daniel Plaut (@plautdaniel) July 2, 2015
@Integrilicious take on our evaluation of @asercentre @uwezoislearning and other citizen-led learning assessments https://t.co/EyarMX0qvW
Nathaniel Heller from Results for Development wrote on the Open Government Partnership blog a post called Why Citizen-Led Assessments of Educational Outcomes Matter for the Transparency and Open Data Communities, highlighting three important insights from the evaluation for practitioners of transparency, accountability, and participation.
Great #research validating #citizen-led assessments of #learning #outcomes from @R4Development @Hewlett_Found http://t.co/8M2IpLhDUh #educ
— PearsonALF (@AffordableLearn) June 25, 2015
Great #research validating #citizen-led assessments of #learning #outcomes from @R4Development @Hewlett_Found http://t.co/8M2IpLhDUh #educ
Colin Bangay from the UK's Department for Development offered his thoughts in: What role for Citizen Led Learning Assessments? – Moving beyond Measurement on the World Education blog. Colin praises the evaluation for its recommendations on how to increase the impact of citizen-led assessments and raises questions not tackled by the report about the relationship between external assessments and government assessment systems.
On the RISE blog, Rukmini Banerji from Pratham shared how, in setting up ASER in India, Pratham was Building a Movement - Assessment to Action. She talks about the motivation behind ASER, how they learned early on that "along with seeing a problem and realizing that there is a need to act, people seemed to need a clear demonstration of what can be done and how to do it," and therefore how, through Read India, ASER has been linked to large-scale efforts by citizens for improving learning.
Thanks to citizen-led assessments, education debates are now focused on learning @WBG_Education @rtiindia @Hewlett_Found
— Silvia Montoya (@montoya_sil) June 24, 2015
Thanks to citizen-led assessments, education debates are now focused on learning @WBG_Education @rtiindia @Hewlett_Found
And finally, Modupe Adefeso-Olateju from The Education Partnership writes about How Nigeria is Beginning the Citizen-Led Assessment with the End in Mind. She offers examples of how LEARNigeria (Let's Engage, Assess & Report Nigeria), the newest in the family of citizen-led assessments, is keeping the evaluation results in mind as they design their assessment.
Thanks to everyone for commenting.
August 14, 2015 — By Kristen Stelljes and Ruth Levine
A researcher conducts an interview with a woman in Bamako, Mali, as part of Innovations for Poverty Action baseline health survey for an evaluation report on the role of user fees and information in health care decisions. Photo Credit: Nicolo Tomasell
We've been looking back at the Hewlett Foundation's contributions to the field of impact evaluation in global development, and we've been looking ahead to a new approach to funding it. In looking back, we've tried to understand how some early investments yielded big things. In looking ahead, we've been exploring how this foundation can continue to be on the leading edge of a field that has grown so rapidly.
For us, the impact evaluation story starts in the early 2000s. Around that time, people working in international development were waking up to the potential for rigorous evaluation to shed new light on some persistent questions about what strategies and interventions could reduce disease, improve education, and change lives in other measurable ways.
In Mexico, for example, Santiago Levy and the late Jose Gomez de Leon, working alongside Paul Gertler and other U.S. academics, conducted an impact evaluation of a massive social program, PROGRESA. That evaluation showed the world that scientific evaluation of the impact of an important national policy intervention was possible, and that robust evaluation findings were hard for politicians to ignore.
The pioneering work of academics like Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Ted Miguel, and development economists at the World Bank demonstrated repeatedly that randomized control trials not only were feasible in difficult field settings like those in Kenya and India, but also yielded insights that no other methods could. At the same time, there was growing frustration with the limitations of standard evaluation practices within development agencies—practices that focused far more on how much was spent and what activities were implemented than on what good was done.
These factors motivated the Center for Global Development's report of the Evaluation Gap Working Group, When Will We Ever Learn: Improving Lives through Impact Evaluation, which was co-authored by Ruth when she was at CGD. That report argued that organizations seeking to use development dollars effectively should invest in impact evaluation, and that those investments should be pooled to yield the greatest value.
Long before either of us were here, the Hewlett Foundation backed the emerging field of impact evaluation. For instance, in our Mexico portfolio the foundation built on the PROGRESA experience by investing significantly in organizations in Mexico promoting stronger evaluation of social programs. The foundation also was an early funder of the home base for many of the leading academics working in the field, MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL). Along with the Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation supported the Evaluation Gap Working Group hosted by the Center for Global Development, and the then-director of the Global Development Program, Smita Singh, was an active member of that group. Again with our partners at the Gates Foundation, we were a founding and steady supporter of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), established to provide pooled funding for impact evaluations, to encourage use of evaluation findings, and to promote standards for evaluation quality and transparency.
These investments paid off. The 3ie Impact Evaluation Repository now holds 2,648 evaluations and the number of impact evaluations each year has skyrocketed. As much as $50 million a year is spent each year on impact evaluations, though this is still a small amount compared to the total spend on aid funded development projects and miniscule compared to domestic budgets. Countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Benin, South Africa and Uganda have created governmental units dedicated to evaluating public programs by commissioning or conducting evaluations themselves.
Having seen the fruits of earlier investments, we're both gratified and unsatisfied. We know we cannot just keep doing more of the same if we're going to play the role that foundations should: pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
To understand the current needs and opportunities in the field of impact evaluation, Kristen has spent the last two years talking with grantees, experts in the field and evaluation users; reading the literature; and commissioning three papers on the future of impact evaluation. (These papers were presented by 3ie at a workshop in April, and will be published as working papers in October.)
Our conclusion is that three big challenges remain for the field, and we have an obligation to try to tackle them. The challenges we see are:
Given this assessment, our future funding for the field of impact evaluation will seek to achieve the following outcomes: First, that impact evaluation practices are responsive to the needs of policymakers and program implementers. Second, that decisions are made based on bodies of knowledge that are designed to inform decisionmaking. Third, that local researchers conduct high-quality, policy- and program-relevant impact evaluations.
As our grantmaking unfolds over the coming months and years, we may explore new ways for researchers and decisionmakers to collaborate. We may test new ways to conduct impact evaluations that are more responsive to the types of questions decision makers ask and the timelines they work under. We will likely support new ways to review, summarize and present bodies of evidence to provide more useful information for policymakers. And we may invest in new ways to build evaluation capacities that are responsive to the context in which the evaluations are done.
These new directions represent a re-commitment to the field of impact evaluation—and a re-commitment to making sure that the Hewlett Foundation supports those who are exploring the field's frontiers. As we go, we will keep watching, keep learning and, yes, keep evaluating.
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August 6, 2015 — By Heath Wickline
The UNESCO Institute of Statistics, a grantee of our Global Development and Population Program, recently took the initiative to translate Program Officer Dana Schmidt's blog post about an evaluation of the citizen led assessments of learning we support. Thanks to Alejandra Masa López and Ana Aznar Castillo of Spain's Instituto Nacional de Evaluacíon Educativa (INEE) for their work on the translation.
July 31, 2015 — By Kelly Born
Madison Initiative Program Officer Kelly Born wrote this piece as a guest post for the Social Velocity blog. It appeared there earlier this week. -Ed.
In March of 2014, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation launched a new initiative focused on US democracy reform, The Madison Initiative. The overarching goal is to "help create the conditions in which Congress and its members can deliberate, negotiate, and compromise in ways that work for more Americans."
Our mandate is for a 3-year, exploratory initiative to assess whether and how the Foundation might be able to make a difference here. During this period, we are focused on three central questions:
In exploring this problem of congressional dysfunction we realized early on that, unfortunately, there don't appear to be any silver-bullets that will solve this problem – it's not as if campaign finance reform, nonpartisan redistricting, or increased voter turnout, taken on their own, would resolve our current democratic ails (even setting aside for the moment how hard it would be to actually achieve these changes!).
Regrettably, there is no clear consensus on what to do to improve the system, much less on how to do it. This may be, in part, why Inside Philanthropy awarded The Madison Initiative with 2014's Big Foundation Bet Most Likely to Fail. Given this, our view has been that current congressional dysfunction is occurring in a system of systems (and sub-systems) that are interacting in complicated ways.
Early on we decided to develop a systems map rather than a theory of change to guide our work (working in close partnership with the Center for Evaluation Innovation and Kumu, collaborations we've written a bit about here). Theories of change typically outline desired (social or environmental) outcomes and then map backwards, linearly, to the activities and inputs necessary to achieve those outcomes. Systems maps are perhaps better suited for more complex, uncertain environments like democracy reform, where cause-and-effect relationships can be entangled and mutually reinforcing, rather than unidirectional.
Version 1.0 of our map includes more than 35 variables we believe are contributing to the problem, distributed across three key domains: Congress, Campaigns and Elections, and Citizens. In light of this complexity, rather than making an initial set of big bets on a few key variables, we have instead spread a series of smaller bets within these systems to see where grantees might gain traction, and what this reveals about the system's more confounding parts.
The benefits of this approach are many – in fact, I cannot imagine effectively tackling this particular problem any other way. But employing this spread betting approach also involves a few challenges for us at Hewlett, and for our partners and grantees. The trade-offs are worth considering:
We've certainly got our work cut out for us. But we deeply believe that the social sector shouldn't shy away from complex problems. We also believe that the benefits of this approach far outweigh the costs. It enables broad-based learning, and truly forces us to constantly re-think the grants we are making. Building in these tough choices, rather than forging ahead with a pre-defined strategy, requires that we not just learn, but that we act on what we discover. And fast.
In short, while beset by a few real challenges, we're convinced that an emergent path is the best path forward. Surely we will place some wrong bets along the way. But, as a favorite colleague of mine often says, "it's not like we're selling cigarettes to children." All of our grantees are doing great work – ultimately it will (not so simply) be a question of which of these lines of work is most likely to improve Congress.
In 2017, we will go back to our Board of Directors to discuss whether and how The Madison Initiative's work will continue. In the meantime, we would love to hear how other funders have approached emergent problems like this – and how nonprofits might advise that we manage these inherent challenges as we progress?
July 29, 2015 — By Kristen Stelljes
As the dust settles from the United Nations Third International Conference on Financing for Development, it's time for development professionals to celebrate the good things that were announced -- for example, the announcement that country, civil society and private foundation champions have committed to forming a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data -- and get back to the hard work of figuring out how to turn the "announceables" into tangibles. Fortunately, my fellow data revolutionaries at Open Data Watch have produced FIVE new resources to help us out:
Examples of Data Impacts Case Studies from the Data Revolution: http://www.dataimpacts.org/
Notable for data revolutionaries are the report's lessons on the importance of focusing on data users and their needs, so that efforts to improve data lead to more informed, hopefully better, decisions. The report also finds greater impact when the introduction of new methods or technology is paired with technical support and advice to those countries that want to adopt them. Open Data Watch tops it off with good recommendations for designing programs to strengthen national statistics systems and build statistical capacity, including building evaluations in from the beginning.
Aid for Statistics. A great companion piece to the lessons learned is ODW's inventory of what funds are already out there in Aid for Statistics: An Inventory of Financial Instruments. The inventory estimates that $143 million per year in aid goes to support statistics through over 30 instruments. Despite the number of vehicles, and the size of the funding, the report identifies several gaps that need to be filled, including the need to collect more gender-disaggregated data, increase data access and use, improve data literacy and support more data innovation. The World Bank announced at the Financing for Development conference that they will be launching a new trust fund for data innovation to fill this last gap. The Aid for Statistics report recommends that donors pool funds to provide more stable and predictable support for statistics and that the funds themselves work to harmonize their efforts and encourage learning. There is also a need for donors to make the data on the aid they give for statistics more open.
There are many things that still need to be figured out as we turn the data revolution from idea to reality, but these new resources give us more… well, data… on how to do this well.
July 28, 2015 — By June Wang and Elisha Smith Arrillaga
Photo credit: Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY).
We're excited to announce today that 15 youth-serving organizations have been selected to be part of the California PropelNext program.
PropelNext helps organizations strengthen their programming and enhance their ability to collect, use, and apply data for ongoing improvement and learning–with the ultimate goal of making a greater impact on the lives of California youth.
The program was first launched by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) in 2012, supporting 15 youth organizations across 10 states. For the past year and a half, we have been partnering with EMCF, along with the Packard, Sobrato, and Weingart foundations, to bring PropelNext to California. (Learn more about the partnership).
PropelNext couples unrestricted funding with an investment in expert coaching, group learning sessions, and a peer learning community over the course of three years. Nine of the 15 organizations selected for the California program are in the Bay Area, and the Hewlett Foundation will be providing three-year, $400,000 general operating support grants to seven of them–Alternatives in Action, Beyond Emancipation, Community Youth Center of San Francisco, East Oakland Youth Development Center, Huckleberry Youth Programs, LYRIC, and Social Advocates for Youth.
We are honored to partner with these nonprofits, which work with a range of youth–from homeless or foster youth to youth out of school or out of work. They provide these youth with critical services such as housing, after school programs, and important leadership development opportunities.
As the Hewlett Foundation does not have–and does not plan to have–a local youth-serving program, you may be wondering, why are you funding this work? The answer is really threefold:
First and foremost, it's an exciting opportunity to make a difference in the lives of Bay Area youth. The Bay Area is our home–it's where William and Flora Hewlett met, where HP got started, where our staff live and work every day, and where all of our programs work, to one degree or another. Supporting organizations that do important work with Bay Area youth is something we are excited to do and consistent with who we are.
Second, it's an opportunity to leverage the expertise, experience, and resources of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. EMCF is a foundation that focuses solely on youth and we think they are remarkably skilled at finding high-potential youth development organizations, and then working directly with those organizations to improve and enlarge their impact. Not only can we lean on their expertise and experience, but for every dollar that we provide in grants to these nonprofits, they provide an equal amount of support in coaching, technical assistance, and other services. Partnering with EMCF allows us to do so much more than we could otherwise.
Lastly, this initiative allows us to learn–both for ourselves and to share with the field, a key priority for the Hewlett Foundation. Strengthening an organization's capacity to collect and use data for improvement is not an easy task. There are as many approaches to capacity-building as there are to identifying organizations to fund or to conducting due diligence. Partnering with EMCF allows us to learn firsthand from their unique approach and to share these lessons with our colleagues both within our foundation and with the philanthropic sector.
While there were many good reasons for embarking on this three-year initiative, we also wanted to go in with eyes wide open. We didn't want to duplicate any similar initiatives in the Bay Area and we weren't sure if there was a need for this type of support. With that in mind, last year we worked with Valerie Threlfall, an independent consultant and former vice president of the YouthTruth Initiative at the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to conduct a landscape of youth-serving nonprofits and funders, hoping to better understand what was needed and what already existed. The report assured us that this type of capacity-building program would be welcome in the Bay Area. We also talked with two PropelNext grantees from the first cohort who are located in the Bay Area–Fresh Lifelines for Youth and New Door Ventures–to make sure they found the PropelNext program valuable.
With all that backdrop in mind, we are thrilled today to announce these grants. This is a three-year experiment for us, and we are excited to embark on a learning journey along with these organizations working to help California youth build better lives. We hope you join us in congratulating the grantees.
July 27, 2015 — By Aimée Bruederle
In a world where funding from government and international donors dwarfs anything even the largest philanthropic institutions can bring to bear, collaboration is one of the major ways that foundations of all sizes can have an impact on a global scale. That's one reason the Hewlett Foundation, where I work as a grants officer with our Global Development and Population Program, values collaboration so highly, despite its inherent challenges. This is especially true where the foundation supports large-scale projects, where our contribution is often only a small part of the total funds committed, for research and advocacy with a goal of systemic policy change. If you take the operational considerations with any collaboration into account—differing grant timelines, process requirements, and programmatic strategies—and then add governmental contract requirements, time zone differences, and language barriers, it only amplifies the level of complexity some partnerships entail. Yet cross-border partnerships play an important role in achieving the goals of the Global Development & Population Program at the Hewlett Foundation.
So how does the Hewlett Foundation mitigate against these challenges inherent in collaboration? That's the subject of an article I wrote recently for GMNsight about how the Hewlett Foundation's grants management and Global Development & Population program staff are using what they learn about collaboration in-house to inform how they partner with other organizations. Collaboration across borders might not be easy, but building trust, having a base of learning and training, a variety of tools, and proactive working collaboratively can all play a role in making them more successful. For more on what we learned, I hope you'll read the whole article.
July 23, 2015 — By Larry Kramer
Funding research is an element of nearly all our grant making programs and strategies—running a wide gamut that encompasses everything from ascertaining who takes advantage of the Bay Area's diverse performing arts to quantifying women's contributions to the economies of sub-Saharan Africa.
Research matters because knowledge is a powerful force for change, and high-quality evidence and analyses are indispensable to sound decision-making. The Hewlett Foundation thus has a vital interest in ensuring that the research we fund is both rigorously done and widely shared—which is why, for example, we decided last year to openly license our own work and to require grantees who receive project-based funding to openly license the work so produced.
We are equally concerned that any research we generate or support be done according to the highest ethical standards, especially when it involves living subjects. And while one might assume that this could or should take for granted, we think it important to say so clearly and unequivocally. Beginning this month, then, we will be adding language to our grant agreements stating that grantees doing research with human subjects "must have appropriate standards to ensure compliance with generally accepted research ethics," through the use of institutional review boards, informed consent policies, and the like. We are, in addition, asking grantees to warrant that such rules and processes will be followed and will require that grant dollars be returned if either of these conditions is not met.
These changes are not meant to impose needless burdens on our grantees. To the contrary, the new language states expressly that we do not wish to "micromanage or seek to interfere in the implementation of grants"—which is why we have not specified a particular review process beyond requiring that the one in place meet generally accepted ethical norms. Each grantee organization should be free, within that constraint, to develop the rules and processes that best suit its culture and capacity. By affirmatively stating our expectation that appropriate rules and review processes are in place and be followed, however, we hope to signal the importance of research ethics.


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The Feds vs. Goldman
On the day the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against Goldman Sachs for securities fraud, shares in the company plunged 12.8 percent, closing at $160.70. The market, it seemed, was finally passing judgment on a decade of high-stakes Wall Street scammery that left America threatening Nigeria, Indonesia and Belarus on the list of the world's most corrupt economies.
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What a pleasant surprise!
I look forward to reading McMegan's explanation
Did you know? Goldman is not a God: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/04/goldman-is-not-a-god/39553/In response to another comment. See in context »
Matt – The SEC case v. Goldman Sachs is bullshit that will end at most with a slap on the wrist fine. However, what's really going to be interesting is the new CRIMINAL case by the US Attorneys in SDNY. Now we're going to get some damn answers!!
Congrats to you for sticking to this vital issue. The fact that there's now a criminal investigation into these criminals can be directly traced to the great work you and other journalists have done in bringing their criminality to light!
I've become so distrustful of everything and everyone throughout this (big picture) process that I fear we're going to end up with nothing but a dog and pony show here. Still, there are so few victories that I, for one, will savor even a minor one, however briefly.
Personally, I'd have closed the RS article with something like: "The SEC action is a clear warning to investors. Anyone choosing to do business with these crooked dirtbags going forward deserves precisely what they're going to get."
But that's just me.
Hit the cocksuckers where they live, I say.
Great piece. Thanks for sharing.
Great RS article, Matt.
But I think there is one point you could have added to underline further how brazen Goldman has been. It is a point that was highlighted in the Zuckerman book about John Paulson, and has somehow slipped under the radar.
Bear Sterns, and particularly Scott Eichel, who was one of the mortgage hotshots there, turned down the opportunity to put Abacus-type deals together for Paulson. He says this in an on-the-record interview with Zuckerman – if you haven't the time to read the book, your buddies across the pond at the Guardian have reported on it.
This, I think, is a big reason why Goldman have plenty to fear. The critical legal issue, the materiality of Paulson's role, is whether a "reasonable investor" would expect to be informed that someone like a Paulson was designing the deal they'd be buying and shorting it; Scott Eichel, who basically like everyone else at Bear was reasonably bullish on subprime (so the opposite view to that of Goldman), would not put together such a deal. In my opinion, and having worked with tons of structurers like Eichel, there's only one reason why he'd take this view – because you'd never be able to tell investors everything they ought to know.
I do a fair bit of training these days on securities laws and regulations – and when you go over the Goldman case with a class drawn from the Santelli-caste, you have a three phase evolution of a seminar.
Phase 1 is "caveat emptor, bitches".
Phase 2 is "okay, so maybe they broke the law, but you'll never convince a jury".
Phase 3, after you tell them about the Eichel position, is "they are so fucked".
Every time, they come to the same conclusion. Even Bear, who actually liked subprime, wouldn't do an Abacus. That's huge.
That's kind of a smoking gun, isn't it? Good on you for catching that!In response to another comment. See in context »
Phoney baloney
We seem to have forgotten GS was made into a bank, overnight, so they could get billions in TARP money….which was a high crime in its self…and the feds were part of the deal makers….
You can trust a dishonest GS more than you can trust the feds investigating and bringing charges….who are without a doubt at this very moment passing information to GS and taking bribes…..and arranging GS' next contribution to BHO and the rest of the democrat crooks in congress
If you has a billion to invest, who would you invest it with: GS crooks or USA government crooks?
I wish you hadn't made the "Haitians" comment. If I were a PR shill for Goldman, I'd seize on that to distract the public from the substance of the article.
I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop regarding the AIG bailout, i.e., the details of Goldman's receipt of protection payments on its credit default swaps with AIG.
Matt, Wow, your best piece of writing yet. Yes, sometimes you have to connect all the dots for people and crow a little bit.
I have followed the Goldman hearings closely and I was more troubled by Goldman's officials lack of understanding of what they did wrong. What could be more revealing than watching Lord (Lloyd) Blankfein looking completely miffed when Senator Levin asked if he felt it was unethical to sell something Goldman knew was crap? For those that missed it, it's worth watching and I will translate his look into an actual verbal answer:
"Senator, I do not understand your question. Everyone on Wall Street steals. We look for suckers every day and thank God America is full of them."
Of course, this all begs the question as to how and why these "bankers, hedge fund managers, etc." who stole our retirement money can escape any criminal consequences. This whole episode is a very stark reminder of how inept and incompetent our government is – after 9/11, it goes after anything with a turban with a gleeful ruthlessness (i.e., Dick Cheney as the Penguin), yet after the greatest generational theft in the history of the world, all we can muster is 3 tough hours by a bespeckled Senator Levin.
If no one is going to go to jail then I want my money back. Why doesn't DOJ confiscate Tourre's half dozen Ferrari's and start paying us victims off, one-by-one?
martinbreen, I too watched some of the questioning of Blankfein by Levin and had the same reaction you did. It was both fascinating and sickening to watch the confusion on Blankfein's face, as in "I wanted money, so we tricked people…hello?"
Reminds me of conversation I once had with a self-described "player". "Well, YEAH, I told her I loved her and wanted to marry her. I wanted to have sex with her, duh. Not my fault she believed me."
Matt sums it all up in his RS article: "translation: too fucking bad for them if they trusted us. It would be nice to think that the SEC suit is aimed at this twisted worldview as much as at the actual offense."In response to another comment. See in context »
Thank you for posting the link; I look forward to reading the unabridged version. You've displayed the screwed up oversight system in this article as much as Goldman Sachs's guilt. How many of these articles and interviews must happen before people give Wall Street crooks the boot, the finger, and some serious jail time?
I dunno what your original intent was but jesus christ, how did you slip in a line comparing haitians to IV drug users with a subtext of prostitution and think it was a good idea? Fix that immediately or else you are going to get raped in the court of public opinion, that's a Friedman level fuckup.
"I'll tell you something else, between herpes and AIDS, I don't care if I ever get laid again as long as I live. And I'm certainly not gonna be humping any Haitian hemophiliac homosexual heroin addicts."
This was the first thing that came to mind…In response to another comment. See in context »
Anyone else get the feeling Lloyd will plan an untimely death….only to end up on a beach with Ken Lay laughing their asses off at us all.
I second that feeling,In response to another comment. See in context »
If Cuomo in NY can prosecute some of these scum I think he's a shoe-in for President. I have no faith in the Obama administration doing anything but a whitewash.
Read your Rolling Stone piece and caught the name of John Paulson. He was also mentioned in piece in Forbes on newly entered Florida Senate candidate Jeff Greene.
Greene apparently learned of the idea to short sell the housing bubble mortgages from Paulson and turned it into an 800 million dollar bonanza. Now he wants to be a Senator. What balls!
I'm dumbfounded that nobody has linked the G/S response to one of the great quotes in movie history:
Animal House, the jovial, genial frat hero telling Flounder, "You Fucked Up! You Trusted Us!"
The entire point of going to G/S is to avoid "caveat emptor"; you're paying extra to shop in an exclusive, rich-folks store where you shouldn't have to check if the Gucci shoes are actually a "Guuchi" label and made of cardboard.
Blaming the victim at that point is saying "We're really just a garage sale, not a high-end Saville Row shoppe".
Well, I'm gonna have to wait until my library gets that issue of Rolling Stone to read Matt's latest, which ,I am sure ,will be informative and entertaining, as usual. In the meantime, this interesting item referred to in Simon Johnsons's "13 Bankers":
Inside Obama's Bank CEO meeting (March 27, 2009)
The bankers struggled to make themselves clear to the president of the United States.
Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room last week, the CEOs of the most powerful financial institutions in the world offered several explanations for paying high salaries to their employees — and, by extension, to themselves.
"These are complicated companies," one CEO said. Offered another: "We're competing for talent on an international market."
But President Barack Obama wasn't in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public's reaction to such explanations. "Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn't buying that."
"My administration," the president added, "is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
The fresh details of the meeting — some never before revealed — come from an account provided to POLITICO by one of the participants. A second source inside the meeting confirmed the details, and two other sources familiar with the meeting offered additional information.
The accounts demonstrate that despite the public comments on both sides that the meeting was cordial, the tone in the room was in fact one of mutual wariness. The titans of finance — men used to being the most powerful man in almost any room — sized up a new president who made clear in ways big and small that he expected them to change their ways.
There were signs from the outset that this was a business event, not a social gathering. At each place around the table sat a single glass of water. No ice. For those who finished their glass, no refills were offered. There was no group photograph taken of the CEOs with the president, which typically happens at ceremonial White House gatherings but not at serious strategy sessions.
"The only way they could have sent a more Spartan message is if they had served bread along with the water," says a person who attended the meeting. "The signal from Obama's body language and demeanor was, 'I'm the president, and you're not.'"
According to the accounts of sources inside the room, President Obama told the CEOs exactly what he expects from them, and pushed back forcefully when they attempted to defend Wall Street's legendarily high-paying ways. (end of article)
Considering Obama's sell-out, one must wonder if this is an accurate portrayal of what really happenned.
jesus, matt. each and every time I read your writing I become exponentially more turned on by you. you have got to have a BSD to confront these guys. keep swinging.
Matt, your writing on G/S has been nothing short of epic. Keep it coming.
That was a fun read. You da man, Matt. Please post any responses from the geniuses who ran interference for GS last year.
Great article, Matt. Great summation of where the case stands at this point and, as always, some very funny lines.
Watching Blankfein testify this week, it looked to me like he was starting to suggest: They were our customer when we gave them advice, but when we filled orders for them we were simply disinterested middlemen, so if you make that distinction, you can clearly see we did nothing wrong.
"…no one knows what service they actually provide beyond fraud, gross self-indulgence and the occasional transparently insincere public apology." Amen. I'm thinking their underlying superfluousness is the reason they have to go for all the complications and scams.
I have a few questions, maybe someone here can answer:
First, what is/was the precious metals Ponzi scheme listed with the other scams?
Second, I recently read a line about how in the U.S. we don't consider bribery to be bribery if the payoff takes place after the fact. I think Matt wrote that line, but I can't locate it.
Third, in the SEC complaint, they quote a Paulson employee speaking of 'real money' investors. He meant by this, did he not, the people actually holding the loans via the AAA-rated bonds? And that would mean not even IKB, but pension fund managers holding the debt expecting a basis point or two extra interest?
Any word on when the case of the hairy backed editor gets solved?
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Big Ben is probably offended by your comparison.
Another incredible piece of journalism, Matt.
I did not anything about you until I saw you on Maher's show a few years ago. From that moment, I enjoyed your insight and delivery on so many issues and looked forward to your return visits. Then I found you on True/Slant and signed up as a follower of your pieces on and have been a fan ever since. Your integrity is second to none and I know I am not alone when I say it is appreciated when you post links to other sources of your work.
Stay the course and keep true to yourself.
I appreciate a lot your writing on Goldman but I think you need to take better account of the "market making" function that Goldman plays. I watched Charlie Rose just now with Blankfein on it and, while he was clearly self-serving, I think you don't take enough account of the market-making function of these firms. I personally believe that the problem is with yoking that, as Blankfein was saying, socially valuable function, to proprietary trading and investment banking. What Goldman and other firms have become is a supermarket of financial functions for these major economic entities like governments, big corporations and rich individuals. Goldman wants to hold onto all those functions to make more money…but those functions should be either split up or regulated better. However, to do that, you, Matt Taibbi, and we the public, need to know more about those functions that have happened largely in the dark.
Thus I think your equation of Lloyd Blankfein and Ayn Rand is unfair to the say the least. Lloyd Blankfein is a functionary of a large financial institution…more of a hydra than a vampire squid maybe. Ayn Rand was an awful ideologist. Blankfein's firm actual DOES provide liquidity for transactions…some of which our economy needs. Obviously though sometimes it steps out of line.
I too would like to see Matt discuss Blankfein's constant references to Goldman's market-making functions. I don't personally buy that defense because Goldman is creating the instruments. Making a market in Microsoft stock means keeping a few shares on hand in case there is a sudden rush to buy them, and buying the shares offered when there is a rush to sell them. The equities are fungible, and prices are public. Not the case with the instruments Goldman created and placed with a limited number of customers. And what kind of market maker allows his market to come to a standstill?
Then there is the comparison to wheat farmers, lock in prices to ensure enough profit to plant the next spring even should prices plummet. And the bread makers who lock in prices to ensure they can afford wheat even should prices skyrocket. Somehow Blackfein equates that sensible scenario to Paulson looking to leverage their way to billion-dollar profits because they have a hunch housing prices are about to nosedive.
Goldman really does come across as a sports book rather than an investment bank. I don't see the market function for much of what they do. (And they are not the only ones doing it.) They are "creating liquidity" in gambling markets that should not even exist.
Look, private equity funds that buy companies and split them up, for better or worse, they have an actual business function. But it's as if our financial system has to provide the opportunity for every high-roller to win HUGE by betting HUGE on any and every hunch about the future direction of any and every bond/equity/commodity/currency market.
If a person has certain knowledge that the bottom is about to fall out of the cocoa market, is it really necessary (and healthy) that the market mechanism allow him to make $500 billion profit off of it?
At a minimum, we should do away with the synthetic instruments. If that means stock market indices with no underlying stock have to go away, so be it.
This comment is pretty disjointed, I know, but I think Blankfein is glossing over many of the problems and using false comparisons, and I find it troubling that some people are saying, "Well, Blankfein really made great points on Charlie Rose," because he's trying to equate market making (which serves a clearly defined purpose) with the BS Goldman was doing.In response to another comment. See in context »
"…and this seems funny in retrospect – I foolishly dismissed those tales (of Goldman Sachs' chicanery) as being too conspiratorial…The notion that the bank would actually go out and create big balls of crap that would be designed to fail seemed too nuts even for my tastes."
Don't be too hard on yourself: what we realized a month ago, a week ago, even yesterday, seems today like the height of naiveté. If we reach back a full year, we seem like veritable Neanderthals compared to our current state of awareness.
There certainly was a conspiracy, though. It was the conspiracy of the rich needing to get richer, the super-rich needing to go stratospheric, and the wannabe's playing the chumps, the cheerleaders and the champions.
Today I am supremely confident that tomorrow will bring fresh, spectacular revelation that our world was not as it appeared yesterday.
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Putting Preemption into Class Action Mix?: Bill on Notification, Court Jurisdiction Close to Enactment
Davenport, Todd, American Banker
WASHINGTON -- New limits on class actions, long on the financial services industry's wish list, are just a couple of quick steps away from reality.
A curious provision specific to depository institutions may give them even broader protection.
The legislation would require most corporate defendants to notify the Justice Department and the attorneys general in the states relevant to a class action before settling it. That notification would include a copy of the suit and materials filed with it, the proposed settlement, and a list of class members.
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The banking industry threw plenty of lobbying muscle into getting a bill passed. A report last year by Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization that fought against the bill, claimed that only the insurance industry devoted more lobbyists to pushing the bill than banks.
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This park is pristine with super friendly staff, excellent facilities, and beautiful sites. The pool is crystal clear, the activities are first rate, and the park is immaculate. There is pride in ownership here. If you want to take a walk or bike ride, watch a fabulous sunset or star gaze, enjoy a game of horseshoes, or just relax at your camper between the trees, you'll find it all here. They even give you a comp paper and continental breakfast on Sunday mornings!! Best park by far!! - PArvers
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Nicely maintained campground. Grounds are well kept. The sites are large with decent privacy. It is primarily a seasonal park. They are well kept with no permanent structures such as roofs and buildings. It was very quiet during our stay from Sunday to Friday. The staff was very friendly and helpful. Our only problem was standing water after a rain that pooled around our door and awning area. The owner stopped by after I complained to the desk. She apologized and assured us that the problem would be taken care of. We agreed that the site required additional fill. It took awhile to dry out after the rain stopped, but we were able to use the area the next afternoon. We would stay here again. - Stephen20
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A park filled with seasonals. We stayed for 4 days hoping to be in a location where we could see the mountains from our campsite, but no mountains within sight. It's in the middle of nowhere – 7 miles to the nearest gas/minimal groceries. Check-in was efficient; the bathhouse was clean; showers hot and strong. We had a small site on the grass overlooking a meadow – perfectly pleasant and a relaxing atmosphere. Although we didn't use it, the pool looked nice. I suspect it's beautiful here in the fall when the leaves change. - Safe Trip


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Over the course of 50 years, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff assembled an unparalleled collection of more than 300 postwar paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. No less impressive is the Meyerhoffs' gift of their entire holdings to the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the de Young in San Francisco, Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection features works by more than 25 of the period's finest artists, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Frank Stella, as well as Barnett Newman's 15-canvas masterpiece, The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani.
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Chocolate minty to be exact.
I got one of these peppermint brownies at whole foods a while back... and though I'm not a HUGE chocolate mint fan... I couldn't stop thinking about them. They are that good. They have the chocolate brownie layer, of course, then theres this whipped mint filling, then kind of a shell of chocolate on top of it all. *drool*
So, today, while picking up some other little things I needed over there, I picked up some dessert... MMMMMMMM.
Yes I want to devour them NOW, but I'll wait. The bigger reason I got them, other than gluttony, though is that I'm thinking I'd like to make cupcakes that taste like these buggers. MMMMM. I'm thinking dark chocolate cupcake with minty filling and a bit of chocolate on top... The part that is going to get me is the filling. It's not heavy and rich, its whipped and fairly light... so I'll have to figure that out.
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All toilets have intregal traps built in. The bad smell may be sewer gases or sometimes from disinfecting chlorine tablets used in the toilet tank. Does the toilet flush properly? What about the tub and sink? Usually these fixtures are connected to the same vent stack.
Thanks, Tom. Perhaps it is sewer gasses as I can smell them both below and behind the toilet as well. I don't use chlorine tablets. And, the toilet flushes properly. So, what do I do for this problem?
The stack may be cracked. hate to be the bearer of bad news, but only way to tell is rip out the wall the stack is enclosed in. Are any other toilets on the same stack? u say u only smell it upstairs? A plumber can do a stack test on the vertical (dry) part of the stack by installing a test plug into the cleanout fitting and filling the stack with water from the roof. What's the age of the plumbing,and is it cast-iron?
Couldn't it just be the wax seal? When I moved into my house last year, the upstairs bathroom smelled of sewer gas. I simply unbolted the toliet and replaced the wax seal underneath. The smell disappeared. (only cost me 1.89 to fix!)
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responsibility to abide by these policies. Any violation will be subject to disciplinary action. Silver Lake College does not accept responsibility for loss, theft or damage to personal property. It is strongly recommended that each student provide insurance for all personal property.
Residents may not possess or store firearms or other lethal weapons in their rooms or the student residence. Anyone possessing firearms and/or lethal weapons such as (not an inclusive list): airsoft guns, bow and arrows; swords; police batons; brass knuckles; knives; blowguns; dart guns; wrist rockets; pellet guns; paintball guns; bee-bee guns; catapults; switchblades; or martial arts equipment. Possession of these weapons is subject to College disciplinary action which could include expulsion.
All keys necessary for living in the student resident community are issued to residents upon checking in. Each resident will be issued one key and one swipe card. These keys will provide students access to the building and floors and to the student's room. If a key to a room is lost, the student will be billed the cost to have the lock changed and new keys issued to the residents. This charge will be billed through Student Accounts in the Business Office. A student with an unpaid account will not be eligible to receive a diploma or an official transcript of credits or be allowed to register until the account is settled. Keys are the property of Silver Lake College. Student Residents are prohibited from making copies of keys issued to them.
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Just open it and let the light flood out. Close it and let the shadows reign. Jonas Hakaniemi's Box Light can easily be dimmed by closing or opening the box to your specific needs. A light adjusted with the touch of a hand. Forget about dimmers, this is as straightforward as interactive design can get.
"Less is more is my motto. Just touch the light! Create your own light by sliding the lid." - Jonas Hakaniemi
Jonas has a past in the graphic design business in Finland, and has always been interested in the fusion of industrial design and handicraft. Box Light was born in a workshop making a lamp by recycling a simple matchbox, a concept that now has evolved into a thorough sophistication, while still retaining the feel of eco-design and doing away with redundant technology.
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