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True North: songs of the Arctic
This work consists of a 4-movement piece for orchestra, commissioned by the
New Jersey Youth Symphony. The music is inspired by an expeditionary residency to the high arctic region of Svalbard led by The Arctic Circle organization. It is an effort to allow connections to grow between musicians and a rapidly disappearing part of our natural world. The music also serves an educational purpose by introducing extended techniques young musicians in a clear, playable and easy to execute manner
A Midpoint Report on the True North Fund
In July 2010, the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) awarded the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) 10 million awards) to increase the scale and impact of youth development organizations whose programs have been shown to produce positive outcomes in communities of need across the United States. EMCF and its co-investors are tackling the immense problems confronting America's low-income youth -- for example, more than 22 percent of all children in the U.S. live in poverty, and 30 percent of public school students fail to graduate from high school, leading to a lack of educational success and employment among youth and young adults across the country. In 2011, EMCF launched the True North Fund (TNF) to aggregate private growth capital in support of nine initial (and subsequently three additional) SIF grantees. EMCF matched the $10 million in federal funds from the SIF 1:1 with its own funds and then, in collaboration with the TNF co-investors and grantees, helped raise the remaining 2:1 match to meet the SIF's 3:1 match requirement. EMCF also provided the grantees with additional supports, including assistance with business planning from the Bridgespan Group and with evaluation planning and implementation from MDRC, and access to executive and leadership coaching.Through the TNF, EMCF and its co-investors' goals are to: Significantly increase the numbers of youth served by effective programs;Support rigorous independent evaluations that help youth-serving organizations and the field advance evidence of programmatic effectiveness in ways that strengthen and improve programs as they grow; Demonstrate a more efficient and effective method of organizing private and public capital on behalf of low-income youth; and Encourage by example and advocacy fundamental change in how public and private capital is deployed to scale what works.This report reflects the experience of the nine initial TNF grantees. In 2013, EMCF selected three additional TNF grantees: PACE Center for Girls, WINGS for kids, and Youth Guidance.Two years after launching the initiative, EMCF commissioned this midpoint report on the TNF to answer the following questions:What progress did the TNF grantees make during the first two years?What has been the TNF co-investors' experience to date?What insights can the TNF grantees, EMCF and co-investors share with funders and policymakers at midpoint?This report summarizes high-level themes that emerged from a review of the TNF literature and telephone interviews with EMCF senior management, EMCF's strategic collaborators, nine TNF grantees, and 12 of the 15 co-investors. It is not meant to be a formal evaluation or exhaustive review with deep analyses of grantee outcomes and accomplishments. Rather, it takes the temperature of the TNF at midpoint in order to inform EMCF and its co-investors, and share with the public some early lessons learned. EMCF expects to publish more detailed, in-depth findings after the initiative concludes in 2015 -- 16
Book Review: Discover Your True North
Book review of Discover Your True North, by Bill George, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class
Misreported landings of North Sea cod: estimation of the true level of aggregate landings
It is widely believed that there have been significant levels of cod landed from the North Sea over and
above permitted quota levels in recent years as the TAC and quota system of the Common Fisheries
Policy has squeezed the fishing opportunities of EU fleets in an attempt to conserve the fish stock. The
extent is described diplomatically as "Unallocated" in ICES Working Group Reports which suggest that
the amount has exceeded 10% of official landings at times but at other times, when the fish have been
particularly scarce, ghost fish have been reported in order to preserve track record. This data-fouling
weakens scientific and economic modelling of the fisheries. However, a way of calculating the amount of
misreporting is to observe the behaviour of the fish markets. Studies conducted on the fisheries around
the North Sea have indicated that cod prices respond to the quantity landed despite being part of a large
international market. After testing for market integration and the direction of causality in the demand
system, this project models the market for North Sea cod as an international unit and uses dummy
variables on both the intercept and gradient of the demand curve to separate the impact of misreported
landings from the residuals. The product is a revised series of aggregate landings of North Sea cod
Holy Communion Is an Artifact of the Future
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A bit of reminiscing seems appropriate on this anniversary occasion.2 The Institute of Liturgical Studies was founded by true pioneers in the liturgical movement. The blessings granted to that movement in terms of its achievements are awesome. I don\u27t know if anyone counted such things in the 1940s, but in the decade in which the Institute of Liturgical Studies was founded there were not a hundred congregations in all of North American Lutheranism where there was a weekly Eucharist
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