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United States-Japan Foundation Announces Latest Grants

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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TOKYO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Foundation announced its latest round of grants awarded in late 2023 and early 2024.

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  • TOKYO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Foundation announced its latest round of grants awarded in late 2023 and early 2024.
  • Details for the application process can be found here:
    USJF has given out more than $100 million in grants in the two countries since its founding.
  • In addition to giving out grants, the Foundation has for the past 20 years run the US-Japan Leadership Program, a network that has grown to more than 500 American and Japanese policymakers, scholars, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists.
  • Here's a full list of the 2023-2024 United States-Japan Foundation grant recipients:
    "Maureen Mansfield Women's Empowerment Series -- Japan-Korea-U.S.

WisdomTree Completes Repurchase of Non-Voting Preferred Shares Convertible into 13.1 Million Shares of WisdomTree Common Stock from a Subsidiary of the World Gold Council

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Monday, November 20, 2023
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The preferred shares have been fully extinguished and the transaction is approximately 7% accretive to current 2024 consensus earnings per share (“EPS”) estimates.

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  • The preferred shares have been fully extinguished and the transaction is approximately 7% accretive to current 2024 consensus earnings per share (“EPS”) estimates.
  • WisdomTree Founder and CEO Jonathan Steinberg said, “This repurchase eliminates potential future overhang while generating 7% accretion for stockholders today.
  • Today’s share repurchase generates an additional 7% accretion to Street forecasts and removes a potential risk of overhang on WisdomTree’s stock price had GBH disposed of the 13.1 million shares of common stock underlying the preferred shares by other means.
  • The repurchased preferred shares were originally issued to GBH in May 2023 in connection with the gold royalty buyout.

Commercial Aviation And Military Headset Market to grow by USD 362.9 million during 2022-2027 | Emphasis on better battlefield communications to drive the growth - Technavio

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The commercial aviation and military headset market size is expected to grow by USD 362.9 million between 2022 and 2027.

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  • NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The commercial aviation and military headset market size is expected to grow by USD 362.9 million between 2022 and 2027.
  • The market is segmented by Application (Military headset and Commercial aviation headset), Type (On-ear and In-ear), and Geography (North America, Europe, APAC, Middle East and Africa, and South America).
  • The emphasis on better battlefield communications drives market growth.
  • The use of low-grade pilot headsets challenges the commercial aviation and military headset market growth.

PBS and BYUtv to premiere "Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir" Featuring Disney and Broadway Star Lea Salonga and World-Renowned Actor Sir David Suchet

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
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SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir" starring Tony Award-winning Disney and Broadway star Lea Salonga ("Mulan," "Miss Saigon") and world-renowned screen and stage actor Sir David Suchet ("Agatha Christie's Poirot") will premiere on PBS and BYUtv this December.

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  • The 90-minute "Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir" will premiere on Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m.
  • Salonga joins The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in singing cherished Christmas carols, hymns and holiday classics.
  • Lea Salonga is a multiple award-winning actress and singer renowned across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch.
  • Funding for "Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir" on PBS is provided, in part, by Ronald C. & Kaye Gunnell, Charles & Janet Stoddard and David B.

Christie's International Real Estate| AKG and Giveback Homes Unveil Partnership to Create Positive Housing Impact

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Creating a path towards community transformation, Christie's International Real Estate | AKG and Giveback Homes today announces AKG | Christie's Selling for Good, a partnership focused on helping low-income families become first-time homeowners.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Creating a path towards community transformation, Christie's International Real Estate | AKG and Giveback Homes today announces AKG | Christie's Selling for Good, a partnership focused on helping low-income families become first-time homeowners.
  • "I am truly delighted to embark on this remarkable journey through our new partnership with Giveback Homes," said Aaron Kirman, CEO and Founder at AKG | Christie's International Real Estate."
  • Cindy Ambuehl, Executive Director of Luxury Estates, AKG | Christie's International Real Estate, said "I am thrilled to collaborate with Giveback Homes and wholeheartedly support their mission to provide homes for those in need.
  • "We created Giveback Homes to help families in need and to provide real estate leaders with unique opportunities to give back.

Boston Globe Media Convenes Foremost Thought Leaders and Industry Trailblazers at Third Annual 'Globe Summit: Today's Innovators. Tomorrow's Leaders.'

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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BOSTON, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Globe Media presents the third annual Globe Summit: Today's Innovators. Tomorrow's Leaders., a three-day conference bringing together the companies creating breakthroughs today and the people who will drive our industries forward tomorrow. Featuring a dynamic and distinguished roster of innovators, leaders, and industry trailblazers, the award-winning conference will host live, interactive and virtual events each day, September 19 through 21. Registration is free and open now at globe.com/summit.

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  • , a three-day conference bringing together the companies creating breakthroughs today and the people who will drive our industries forward tomorrow.
  • Featuring a dynamic and distinguished roster of innovators, leaders, and industry trailblazers, the award-winning conference will host live, interactive and virtual events each day, September 19 through 21.
  • Keynote speakers, together with Globe journalists, will discuss important issues that Boston and the world are facing today — innovation & technology, business, climate change & sustainability, AI, health and lifestyle.
  • Globe Summit partners include supporting sponsors CIC Innovation Campus, Cross Insurance, Flywire, Mass General Brigham, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and PNC Bank, as well as media partner WBUR CitySpace.

Yankee Unveils Major Redesign of NewEngland.com Website

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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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DUBLIN, N.H., Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Since its launch in 2016, Yankee magazine's NewEngland.com has served as the ultimate online resource for New England, offering millions of users original content about travel, food, lifestyle, and home & garden, covering all six of the region's states.

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  • This month, Yankee unveils a major redesign of NewEngland.com with a contemporary, visually rich look and intuitive navigation for a fully immersive user-friendly experience.
  • "NewEngland.com serves as the gateway to the Yankee brand, from our magazine and television series to our e-newsletters and social media channels," says publisher Brook Holmberg.
  • "In redesigning the website, we wanted to bring a visual-first approach that better reflected what Yankee is today, integrating print and original digital content.
  • By curating content from all sources in one place, we hope to provide users with easier access to everything Yankee has to offer."

As GBH Cashes Surprise $6 Million Gift, Bequest Management Expert Offers Guidance to Nonprofits on Best Practices to Instill Trust with Potential Benefactors

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Thursday, June 29, 2023
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Lindy Nash, a supervising attorney for Chisholm, Chisholm & Kilpatrick, Ltd.'s bequest management practice , encourages nonprofit leaders to examine their bequest management practices and provide potential hidden benefactors like the Maglione brothers with confidence in their mission to entice similar gifts from unheralded and unexpected donors.

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  • Lindy Nash, a supervising attorney for Chisholm, Chisholm & Kilpatrick, Ltd.'s bequest management practice , encourages nonprofit leaders to examine their bequest management practices and provide potential hidden benefactors like the Maglione brothers with confidence in their mission to entice similar gifts from unheralded and unexpected donors.
  • Nash is available to offer expert analysis and perspective about charitable giving and bequests, including expert perspective on what procedures organizations should have in place to instill trust with potential benefactors.
  • Every nonprofit leader should be thinking about how it can instill the same sense of trust and value with their donors," said Lindy Nash, Supervising Attorney for Bequest Management.
  • She ensures that each bequest distribution is handled efficiently while fulfilling the charities duty of good stewardship and accelerating bequest revenue.

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts coming to PBS & World Channel this Juneteenth

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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BOSTON, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PBS and WORLD Channel announced today the presentation of Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts, an award-winning documentary feature that explores the complex history of Black soldiers in the United States military. Director and producer Dru Holley weaves together the testimony of historians, experts and descendants of Buffalo Soldiers with archival photographs, reenactments and animation to tell the story of how newly free Black Americans enlisted in the U.S. Army, a reliable path to income and greater respect, and in the process helped to both fulfill America's Manifest Destiny and disrupted the lives of Indigenous peoples.

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  • PBS and WORLD Channel to Explore the History of Black Soldiers in America with Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts.
  • BOSTON, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PBS and WORLD Channel announced today the presentation of Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts, an award-winning documentary feature that explores the complex history of Black soldiers in the United States military.
  • Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts will premiere Monday, June 12 at 10pm ET on PBS and Monday, June 19 at 8pm ET on WORLD Channel's Local, USA series.
  • The film will be available to stream on the PBS app, WORLDChannel.org , YouTube and on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel.

James E. Dunford Named American Public Television President and CEO

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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BOSTON, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees of American Public Television (APT), the leading syndicator of content to U.S. public TV stations nationwide, announced today that James E. Dunford will become the next president and CEO of APT, effective June 12. He succeeds Cynthia Fenneman, who has led APT since 2001 and will retire in early June. Dunford will lead a team of nearly 40 staff who annually offer nearly 250 new and returning series and specials available for broadcast and streaming via the company's Exchange, Syndication and Premium Service programming services; represent and license content internationally via APT Worldwide; and distribute multicast channels Create and WORLD to the public television system.

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  • BOSTON, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees of American Public Television (APT), the leading syndicator of content to U.S. public TV stations nationwide, announced today that James E. Dunford will become the next president and CEO of APT, effective June 12.
  • Dunford comes to APT with extensive public media expertise at both local and national levels.
  • In addition, Dunford supported content strategy, planning and analysis, and he managed several high-profile projects, including the station-focused engagement campaign for "The Great American Read."
  • Dunford is a graduate of Boston College, where he also served as a member of the adjunct faculty.