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10 winners of the “2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award” demonstrate transformative business education, changing how tomorrow’s leaders will think about their decisions and the role they play in society’s future.

Business 20/20 goes live on Tuesday, November 26th and is free to listen on iTunes and Simplecast for Stitcher. New episodes are released every Tuesday.

Rural Development Hubs are defined as place-rooted organizations working within and across a region to build inclusive wealth, increase local capacity and create better well-being for rural people. They are identified as a strategic entry point for national and regional funders and policymakers to engage with rural America. For a thriving, equitable nation, attention to and investment in rural places and people is essential.

The Cognizant U.S. Foundation grant enables research and local gatherings to provide policy solutions for U.S. cities; recommendations to be released in 2020.

The 16 longlisted titles include 12 novels and four short story collections, and six of the selections are by debut authors. The five finalists and winner will be selected by a five-member jury that includes acclaimed writers Alexander Chee, Saeed Jones and Esmeralda Santiago.

The interactive projects cover a number of topics ranging from a statistical method to preserve election integrity, to measures that educate and protect older adults from online fraud. The projects range from a web application to operational plans, videos, websites and an explorable explanation.

The 150 community colleges named today as eligible to compete for the 2021 Prize were selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 public two-year colleges nationwide using publicly available data on student outcomes. Located in 39 states in urban, rural, and suburban areas, serving as few as 500 students and as many as 75,000 students, these colleges represent the diversity and depth of the community college sector.

In this newly created role, Stettner will oversee the Institute’s historic Aspen Meadows campus facilities in Aspen, CO, and will be responsible for planning and managing all aspects of capital projects and day-to-day campus operations.

CityLab DC gathered over 500 city leaders, practitioners, planners, architects, artists, economists, business leaders, tech innovators, urban scholars, and other civic leaders—representing 169 cities across 30 countries. Forty-four mayors attended CityLab DC from the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Co-founded in 2013 by Wirth and Vanessa Rule, Mothers Out Front uses a proven model of grassroots organizing, and has trained and empowered mothers and others who are influencing decision-makers and showing up in force. Much of their work is focused on building power in frontline communities — low-income communities and communities of color that have been hit hardest by the health and environmental costs of the climate crisis.