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Red Cross President Offers Tips for Non-Profits
When Gail McGovern took over as president of the Red Cross in April 2008, the former vice president at AT&T and Fidelity Investments had no idea she’s have to deal with the aftermath of eight hurricanes and tropic storms, a record tornado season, and the worst flooding in the Midwest in 15 years. She did know that she was inheriting a $209 million operating deficit, a mandate from to eliminate it within two years, and that she was the 10th person to take the helm of the PR-challenged agency in the last decade, she told an NPC Luncheon July 21. Yet, the Harvard marketing professor — who…
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Uyghur Leader Urges Investigative Reporting on Xinjiang Unrest
Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association, urged Western journalists at a July 20 Newsmaker to report what the Chinese government does not want them to know about the unrest in the Xinjiang region of the country, called East Turkestan, by the ethnic Uyghur people who make up the majority of the population in the area. Beijing has accused Kadeer of being the mastermind behind the unrest. Kadeer, who was expelled from China and lives in Northern Virginia, said that while "the Chinese government has been vocal about the fact that it allowed the…
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2 Grad Students Win NPC Scholarships
A reporter with the Lubbock Avalanche Journal and an aspiring science journalist are this year's winners of the NPC Dennis Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism and the Richard G. Zimmerman Journalism Graduate Scholarship. Marlena Hartz, of Lubbock, Texas, is the winner of the Dennis Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism, a $5,000 stipend for graduate school. She is headed to the University of Denver, where she plans to study print and digital journalism. Joseph Calamia, of New Haven, Ct., is the winner of the Zimmerman Graduate Scholarship, also a $5,000…
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GE High-Efficiency, Smart Grid Appliances Featured at Newsmaker
Smart grid-enabled appliances will usher in a revolution in the appliance industry, GE Consumer/Appliance CEO James Campbell said at a Newsmaker Thursday. “I’ve been in the appliance business for nearly 30 years. I’ve seen many innovations and changes in the industry. Some have been nothing short of revolutionary,” he said. Smart grid-enabled appliances "will enable us to use energy more wisely and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And, in the process, GE and other manufacturers will lead the way to a new era of U.S. technology leadership and create thousands of jobs that go with it,” he…
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Conyers Bemoans Lack of Attention for Single-payer Health Insurance
With 17 minutes remaining in a spirited question-and-answer session, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., gathered his papers from the podium, offered an apology to his Luncheon audience on July 24 and made a hasty exit. Voting was underway on a transportation appropriations bill in the House. But not before the second longest-serving House member (22 terms) and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee could comment on critical issues dominating debate on Capitol Hill, such as single-payer universal health insuranace. That proposal, he said “is the most popular health-care bill in the Congress and…
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Rep. Frank Says Regulation is Key
“Regulation” may be a bad and disturbing word for some members of Congress and many in the banking industry, but for Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the Financial Services Committee, it is a crucial and necessary part of the fix for America’s ailing economy. In a Luncheon speech July 27, part economic history lesson, part blueprint for the financial future, and often laced with acerbic wit in the face of grim realities, Frank painted a detailed, sometimes painful, picture of the current economic climate. “Our primary goal is not to try to undo the past but to prevent its recurrence…
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Lincoln, Landrieu Seek to Expand Dropout Recovery Program
Two senators urged their colleagues to expand a high school dropoutrecovery initiative at a July 28 Newsmaker. Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Mary Landrieu, D-La.,praised the National Guard Youth Challenge program for helping waywardyoung people regain their footing and become economically productive. The Senate recently added a Lincoln amendment to its version of defenseauthorization legislation that would increase federal funding for theeffort, which is jointly sponsored by the Department of Defense andstates. Under current law, 60 percent of the funding comes from defenseand 40 percent…
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Kerry: US-China Cooperation Critical to Climate Change Success
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and 2004 Democratic candidate for president, alternated between good news and bad news on climate change at a July 29 Luncheon. He spoke as two days of high-level U.S. and Chinese meetings concluded in Washington. He cited the meetings’ accomplishments and added that on climate change, “…more should have been accomplished, and more could have been achieved.” He covered the international and national political hurdles to success at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, involving 120…
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Slain Sri Lankan, NYT Journalists Win Club's Press Freedom Awards; Dinner Monday
A slain Sri Lankan journalist and a New York Times reporter held captive for seven months will receive the NPC the 2009 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards. The awards are bestowed on one international journalist and one American jounalist who embody the principles of a free press. They will be honored at the Awards Dinner on Aug. 3. This year's recipients are: The late Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sunday Leader in Sri Lanka until January, when gunmen on motorcycles assassinated him in his car on the way to work. David Rohde of the New York Times, who was held captive by the…
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NPC Urges Venezuela to Lift Press Restrictions
The National Press Club is distressed by the Venezuelan government's recent actions to intimidate and bully the country's media. The government of Venezuela has taken a series of steps since July 31 that threaten to destroy press freedom. On July 31, the government revoked licenses for more than 30 private radio stations and a Venezuelan minister has said more than 200 other stations are under investigation. Venezuela's attorney general recently proposed a "Special Law Against Media Crimes" that would punish journalists who present a "false perception" or "cause a panic". Venezuela's…
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