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By Jenny Vickers From the May/June 2016 Issue Four U.S. governors recently participated in a panel discussion focused on the chronic shortage of skilled workers in the United States; the panel, part of the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles, was...

Despite increased food production in the U.S., there is still a lack of healthy, affordable food in low-income communities and communities of color. In recent months, the national dialogue on environmental justice has intensified, with the water crisis...

After two weeks of voting in 75 markets across the US, more than 160,000 votes were cast in the Yelp Foundation Gives Local grant contest, and we have a winner! A lot of them, actually. With three nonprofits in each market receiving grants, that’s 2...

Jeff Taylor faced an uphill battle when he became Appomattox County’s economic development director in 2011. Thomasville Furniture was closing its local factory, eliminating more than 170 jobs. The plant closing left many more residents in Appomattox...

Three Hartford area nonprofit organizations have received a financial boost from the charitable foundation of Yelp, the website of business recommendations. This past fall, Yelp nominated three non-profit organizations in 75 cities around the country...