509 research outputs found
2012-2013 Nic Brown
No full textNic Brown was raised in North Carolina and now lives in South Carolina. He is the author of the novels In Every Way, Doubles, and Floodmarkers, which was selected as an Editors\u27 Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train, Epoch, and the Harvard Review, among many other publications. A graduate of Columbia and the Iowa Writers\u27 Workshop, he has served as the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi and now teaches at Clemson University.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1007/thumbnail.jp
Financing Nonprofit Journalism: A Benefits and Revenue Analysis of the Nebraska Journalism Trust
No full textNonprofit organizations often seek revenue streams that are intuitively connected to their mission. However, without careful planning and intentional analysis, nonprofit organizations may not fully maximize their funding potential and develop an effective and balanced revenue portfolio aligned with its mission (Young, 2017). This paper is an organizational analysis of the Nebraska Journalism Trust, a 501c3 nonprofit organization and the publisher of the Flatwater Free Press, to analyze and assess revenue models for public interest nonprofit journalism organizations that serve state and local communities. The Nebraska Journalism Trust illustrates how nonprofit organizations can meet community needs in response to private market failure and how a nonprofit in a nascent subsector can finance its mission.
The case study utilizes benefits theory and portfolio theory to assess the organization’s mission, goods, and beneficiaries, identify logical mission-aligned revenue streams, and evaluate its current portfolio with an ideal revenue portfolio. The case study examines the organization’s financial records and supplements its analyses with interviews with organizational leaders. This case study finds that the organization’s primary benefits are redistributive, group, and public goods. Its mission-aligned sources of support are predominantly oriented around donations with a robust revenue portfolio that is highly aligned with an ideal portfolio. While its revenue is highly concentrated in donations, it is fairly diversified within this category among grantmakers (local and national) and individuals (major donors and small-dollar grassroots donors). This case study concludes its analysis with recommendations to strengthen the revenue portfolio. Future research could compare similar organizations in other communities, groups with narrower constituency focuses, and organizations with different funding or staffing structures. A deeper analysis of specific fundraising tactics and donor motivations could be instructive to understand how new nonprofit journalism organizations can raise funds to reach a higher scale of operations
A Study of Qura nic Prayers
No full textThe author of this paper seeks to prove by means of descriptive- analytic method and library researches that the Qura nic prayers are so delicate that the non-Qura nic prayers recited by the prophets and saints lag seriously behind them. The results demonstrate that the Qura nic prayers open with words markedly different from those of non-Qura nic ones; therefore, those non-Qura nic prayers in which God, against His divine dignity and omniscience, is addressed by words other than Rabb are open to suspicion
The end of charity?
No full textNic Frances argues that unless we change our approach to charity, the creation of a just and sustainable world will be a far-off ideal… and the charity sector itself is a large part of the problem. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
Corrigendum to “Ultralow detection of 3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine using an immunofluorescence nanoconjugate of heavy metal-free alloyed quantum dots and NiCeFe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> magnetic nanoparticles” [J. Photochem. Photobiol. A:Chemistry 442 (2023) 114803] (Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, A: Chemistry (2023) 442, (S101060302300268X), (10.1016/j.jphotochem.2023.114803))
No full textWe recently submitted this manuscript and it was accepted after two rounds of reviewing. Firstly, the credit author statement for Niamh Nic Daeid who is a co-author in the published paper was missing in the final version of the paper. We had provided the correct credit author statement for Niamh Nic Daeid and from our investigation, Niamh Nic Daeid credit author statement was missing from the final version of the paper. We acknowledge not spotting the editorial mistake during review of the proof version of the paper. Secondly, we forgot to acknowledge M. Laura Nsuamani contribution to the work. The currents sections of the manuscript appear as follows: CRediT authorship contribution statement Oluwasesan Adegoke: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Niamh Nic Daeid:. Acknowledgements Authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Leverhulme Trust (RC-2015-011) for funding this work. OA sincerely appreciates the support received from the School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee. But it should be written as follows: CRediT authorship contribution statement Oluwasesan Adegoke: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing- Original Draft and Writing - Review & Editing. Niamh Nic Daeid: Funding acquisition, Supervision and Writing- Reviewing and Editing. Acknowledgements Authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Leverhulme Trust (RC-2015-011) for funding this work. OA sincerely appreciates the support received from the School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee. The authors also acknowledge the contribution of M. Laura Nsuamani who assisted in the DLS and FT-IR instrumental analysis of the nanomaterials. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.</p
Demony Genette'a : o powieści Dawida Bieńkowskiego "Nic"
No full textThe sketch points to the difficulties faced by Dawid Bieńkowski (b. 1963) as the author of the novel "Nic" (Nothing, 2005) - intended to be a critical description of the Polish reality of the 1990s. However, Bieńkowski's novel turned out to be an involuntary pastiche of critical realism (including references to Prus's "Doll"), which functions here only thanks to the intertextual and metaliterary references. This is why the author of the article calls it the faked or fingered realism
Improving access to climate financing for the Pacific Islands
No full textExecutive summary
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits developed countries to provide assistance to ‘developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting the costs of adaptation.’
Although recent commitments of ‘fast-start’ climate funding from partners like Australia, Japan and the European Union are welcome, Pacific Island countries face wider obstacles in accessing appropriate and timely levels of funding for adaptation and mitigation to manage the adverse effects that environmental challenges have on core areas for economic, social and human development.
The experience of Solomon Islands, the first Pacific country to obtain funding from the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund for a project on food security and agricultural production, offers some important lessons for the region.
Access to climate financing could be improved through seeking special access for small island states in financial mechanisms, establishing programs and structures that improve donor coordination and build the capacity of national institutions, developing national climate trust funds and a Pacific Regional Climate Change fund and, most importantly, implementing more targeted action on the ground to assist the most vulnerable communities with concrete adaptation programs
Julian as author: letters and legislation
No full textArgues that Julian the legislator had three personae; his own as personally the author of laws and letters; his legislative image as filtered by observers; and the truncated version preserved in the legal extracts of the Theodosian Code. Although the fist is more vivid (and perverse), the last is also important as a reminder of the routine duties of an emperor and the power of the Theodosian compilers to edit and thus change the past
Julian as author: letters and legislation
No full textArgues that Julian the legislator had three personae; his own as personally the author of laws and letters; his legislative image as filtered by observers; and the truncated version preserved in the legal extracts of the Theodosian Code. Although the fist is more vivid (and perverse), the last is also important as a reminder of the routine duties of an emperor and the power of the Theodosian compilers to edit and thus change the past
Vezetéstudományi CHAIN szakrendszer kialakítása az OVK-NIC rendszerben
No full textCHAIN indexing technique le one of the methods employed in the ICL-NIC system. The management science classification scheme for the content analysis of books has been developed on the basis of this method within the OVK-NIC system, introduced by the National Management Development Centre (OVK) on January 1, 1970. In its introductory part, the study outlines the CHAIN technique, its characteristic features as it is used in the OVK-NIC system, and all aspects which have affected the development of this scheme. The classification scheme is based on terms (subject headings) and on their CHAIN combinations. It is a Hungarian language scheme, and covers management science and the related auxiliary and applied disciplines.Relying on methods developed in the course of practical work, the study first summarizes the conditions necessary to the start of work, particularly important among them are the educational back-ground and professional experience of the librarian. Lists regularly updated by means of a computer are used as aids to classification. The author divides classification into three phases:1. defining the subject matter of the document - a traditional operation of library processing;2. rules for the order of combining subject headings formulated in accordance with the subjects of management science;3. by mechanical arrangement, the computer puts out the CHAIN index. The latter process is explained by the author in detail.Considering various types of classification schemes, the author ranks the CHAIN among the faceted classifications. To enable the CHAIN index to be utilized as a classification scheme, separate programs produce the scheme and the list of used terms on the basis of the CHAIN’s vocabulary. With this, the improvement and extension of the classification is going on in parallel with the processing by computer. The study shows the development of the CHAIN classification scheme of OVK-NIC as a process, surveying the means and results which may serve as a control of work. All this is carried out by the system's analytic sub-system composed of four programs and produced on the basis of ICL FIND programs.Through several examples, the study illustrates the joint effort of man and machine and its effect on the result. In the course of evaluation, the relation of the system's operation to its external environment, as well as the degree of the subject field's exploration and the professional flexibility are taken for factors of effectiveness. On the basis of all this, the author tends to rank the CHAIN classification among the effective systems which – as shown by experience – has proven more feasible than UDC in the work of OVK.
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