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The Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is one of the largest community foundations in the United States. [1] [2] [3] Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as of January 2011 it was reported to have approximately four billion dollars in assets, [4] and to have donated more than $580 million to local charities and government projects.
For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero, [46] [66] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [67] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [68] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [30] Edward Snowden acknowledged Sci-Hub to be one of the most important websites for academics in the ...
Alexandra Elbakyan at a conference at Harvard (2010). Sci-Hub was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, who was born in Kazakhstan in 1988. [22] Elbakyan earned her undergraduate degree at Kazakh National Technical University [23] studying information technology, then worked for a year for a computer security firm in Moscow, then joined a research team at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2010 ...
Mutual aid is an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs. This can include physical resources like food, clothing, or medicine, as well as services like breakfast ...
Mutual Assistance Program is a generic term denoting any form of international—and, in the United States, between states—cooperation projects, treaties, or joint ventures related to a specific issue, both civilian or military on, for example, health, culture, global or local security, or emergency services. It can also achieve the form of a ...
Mutualistas were community-based mutual aid societies created by Mexican immigrants in the late 19th century United States. According to media analyst Charles M. Tatum, mutualistas "provided most immigrants with a connection to their mother country and served to bring them together to meet their survival needs in a new and alien country.
With his wife, Schusterman co-founded the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. [3] They donated millions to his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma; the Parent Child Center of Tulsa; and the Israel Arts and Science Academy in Jerusalem, Israel. The largest single gift was $10 million, made in 1999, which helped OU buy the former ...
In 2014, Schreiber ran for Tulsa Public Schools School Board district 7 vacated by Lois Jacobs. [6] She faced Gene Beach in the non-partisan election and was endorsed by the Tulsa Regional Chamber's Education Political Action Committee. [7] She won the election with 76.6 percent of the vote. [8]