Rising to the Challenge: The Strategies of Social Service Intermediaries

During the past decade, "intermediary organizations" have proliferated across the nonprofit sector. These organizations are typically positioned between funding entities (e.g., government agencies, foundations and corporations) and direct service providers. Intermediaries play an important roll in connecting organizations that share a common interest--and working to enhance the services these organizations provide, build larger service networks, promote quality standards, and monitor programs on behalf of funders

Evaluation Trends

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Organic Trends 8

Newsletter on Organic agriculture and food development in China

Global Employment Trends

The January 2006 report documents the current trend in Global employment as well as the effects of the Asian tsunami, migration, and the oil shock in 2005

Contiguous US summer maximum temperature and heat stress trends in CRU and NOAA Climate Division data plus comparisons to reanalyses.

Warming is a major climate change concern, but the impact of high maximum temperatures depends upon the air's moisture content. Trends in maximum summertime temperature, moisture, and heat index are tracked over three time periods: 1900-2011, 1950-2011, and 1979-2011; these trends differ notably from annual temperature trends. Trends are emphasized from two CRU datasets (CRUTS3.25 and CRUTS4.01) and two reanalyses (ERA-20C and 20CRv2). Maximum temperature trends tend towards warming that is stronger over the Great Lakes, the interior western and the northeastern contiguous United States. A warming hole in the Midwest generally decreases in size and magnitude when heat stress trends are calculated because the region has increasing moisture. CRU and nearly all reanalyses find cooling in the northern high plains that is not found in NOAA Climate Division trends. These NOAA trends are captured better by CRUTS401. Moistening in the northeast amplifies the heat stress there. Elsewhere the moisture trends are less clear. Drying over northern Texas (after 1996) in CRUTS401 translates into decreasing heat stress there (less so in CRUTS325). Though other reanalyses are not intended for long-term trends, MERRA-2 and ERA-Interim match observed trends better than other reanalyses

Trends in Taxation

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Crime Trends: 1990-2016

This report examines crime trends at the national and city level during the last quarter century. It covers the years 1990 through 2016, as crime rates peaked in 1991. It analyzes data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and from police departments from the nation's 30 largest cities. Data for 2016 are estimated, as full year data was not available at the time of publication.This report concludes that although there are some troubling increases in crimes in specific cities, there is no evidence of a national crime wave

New consumer trends

The aim of the discussion is to examine the new trends observed in consumer behaviour of today’s households around the world. This article contains a purely theoretical analysis of the new trends. Its structure is as follows: after explaining the concept of a consumption trend and its main characteristics, the further part of this text analyses the key “new” or “alternative” consumer trends, such as: deconsumption, eco-consumption, conscious consumption, collaborative consumption, freeganism, prosumption, smart shopping and cocooning, followed by a conclusion.Wydanie współfinansowane ze środków Miasta Łodzi w ramach zadania “Współpraca z wyższymi uczelniami” – umowa 100/03/201

Meeting online or offline? Patterns and trends for co-resident couples in early 21st century Britain

Data from the 2010-12 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3) are used to document trends and patterns in where co-resident couples in Britain first met, focusing specifically on the rapid rise of meeting online, which both echoes and differs from a corresponding US increase; in Britain, meeting online largely appears to have substituted for meetings in settings to which access is relatively unrestricted, e.g. pubs and public places. While meeting online appears widespread across British society, variations are identified and linked to ideas from the online dating and place of meeting literatures. Offline partner availability, and how well the processes within offline and online settings suit particular types of people, are interpreted as underpinning many of these variations. Perhaps surprisingly, meeting online does not appear class-related, and involves levels of socio-demographic homogamy that do not differ systematically from those for compositionally-heterogeneous offline settings

Convergence NBIC (nano-bio-info-cognitif) et Knowledge Marketing : champs expérimentaux d'application. Exemple du domaine biomédical

International audienceThis communication first relates to the theoretical framework of NBIC Convergence / CKTS and proposes the possible scopes according to a specific process: that of "Convergence-Divergence". From the existing works about this convergence widely studied within the framework of the improvement of the performances and the human skills, our works, coupled with those of Knowledge Marketing, can interest as well the specialists working on the emergence of new industrial processes, products and services(departments) for example in the biomedical domain, as the new lifestyles and consumption by 2020-2050.La présente communication s'inscrit tout d'abord dans le cadre théorique de la Convergence NBIC/CKTS et aborde ensuite les perspectives de développement sous un angle spécifique : celui de « Convergence-Divergence ». A partir des travaux existants au sujet de cette convergence largement étudiée dans le cadre de l'amélioration des performances et des compétences humaines, nos travaux couplés avec ceux du Knowledge Marketing peuvent intéresser tant les spécialistes travaillant sur l'émergence de nouveaux processus industriels, de produits et de services par exemple dans le domaine biomédical, que les nouveaux modes de vie et de consommation à l'horizon 2020-2050. Abstract This communication first relates to the theoretical framework of NBIC Convergence / CKTS and proposes the possible scopes according to a specific process: that of 'Convergence-Divergence'. From the existing works about this convergence widely studied within the framework of the improvement of the performances and the human skills, our research coupled with those of Knowledge Marketing, can interest as well the specialists working on the emergence of new industrial processes, products and services for example in the biomedical domain, as the new lifestyles and consumption by 2020-2050