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Public-Private Collaboration Drives Freelancers Union’s New NYC Hub

Associations Now

A new Brooklyn facility for freelancers—launched in collaboration with the Freelancers Union and New York City—could prove inspiration for a field that’s growing in prominence but comes with a lot of extra complications.

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Funding Initiative to Support Black-Owned Businesses Hits the Local Level

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The Association for Enterprise Opportunity, continuing its three-year Tapestry Project, has launched “action labs” in five cities to support black-owned businesses. This week, AEO officially launched the Tapestry Project Action Lab, which takes the larger project and applies it to businesses at the local level.

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Why Coworking Will Survive the WeWork Saga

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CBRE predicts substantial growth in flexible office space over the next decade, recently projecting an increase from 1.8 percent of the market by 2030,” the firm stated in a news release. For example, startups like New York’s Spacious are turning fancy restaurants into coworking spaces during the day, and others, like the U.K.

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Google, American Library Association Team on Coding Initiative

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It’s in that spirit that the American Library Association joined forces with Google to teach kids something new—about coding. Google recently announced its involvement in the Libraries Ready to Code project, which was spearheaded by ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy. The project is not about teaching librarians to code.

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50 Things That Shaped Our World in 1969

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Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force’s investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs), officially comes to an end on December 17, 1969. New in 1969. military communications project with the goal of connecting computers. Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people. ARPANET was a U.S.

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#ASAE18: Value Means More Than Money, Says Kickstarter Founder

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Strickler framed his argument around his own experience at Kickstarter, which he helped launch in 2009 as a crowdsourcing platform for artists looking for outside funding for their projects through individual pledges. Strickler said much of his concern about redefining value stems from his experience living in New York City.

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The Collaboration That Put a Suicide-Prevention Message on the Radio

Associations Now

As a result of the number’s increased attention, the Lifeline, which is administered by the Mental Health Association of New York City , has been getting a lot more calls these days.