Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit
Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen, the crowdfunding siteâs co-founders, announce that their company is reincorporating as a âpublic benefit corporation.â
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Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen, the crowdfunding siteâs co-founders, announce that their company is reincorporating as a âpublic benefit corporation.â
The intersection between brands trying to capitalize on social media activity and peopleâs expectation of privacy has become murky.
On Sunday, the Giants became the first team in N.F.L. history to blow two double-digit leads in two games to open the season. And quarterback Eli Manning played a prominent role in giving away the game.
Austin Beutnerâs departure as publisher, a position he had held only a year, widened a divide between The Los Angeles Times and its corporate parent in Chicago.
A cast of five plays all the roles in Shakespeareâs uproarious comedy of romantic confusions.
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The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 16, 2015, covering September 21, 2015.
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2015Yoram Gross, Polish-Australian director and producer (born 1926)[â ]
Yoram Jerzy Gross was a Polish-born, Australian film and television producer, animation director, and writer of children's and family entertainment. He founded the animation studio Flying Bark Productions.
2015Ray Warleigh, Australian-English saxophonist and flute player (born 1938)[â ]
Raymond Kenneth Warleigh was an Australian alto saxophonist and flautist.
2015Richard Williamson, American footballer and coach (born 1941)[â ]
Richard Williamson was an American football player and coach. He was the head football coach at Memphis State Universityânow known as the University of Memphisâfrom 1975 to 1980. Williamson served as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1990 to 1991.
2015Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.[â ]
AdventHealth is a Seventh-day Adventist nonprofit organization headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates facilities in 9 states across the United States. It is the largest not-for-profit Protestant health care provider in the country. In 2021, it was the second largest hospital network in Florida. In February 2023, it was the fifteenth largest in the country. Currently AdventHealth operates 55 hospitals on fifty-three campuses as of May 2025.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]