Federal grant competitions tend to reward organizations with a proven record. When the Pittsburgh Canopy Alliance secured an $8 million U.S. Forest Service grant through the Inflation Reduction Act, years of steady Colcom Foundation investment in Tree Pittsburgh helped build that record. The City of Pittsburgh received an additional $1 […]
Utility construction is often seen as traditional, yet technology has steadily changed how the work is planned and performed. Digital mapping, improved safety equipment, and better scheduling tools all affect how crews approach a job. The question for contractors is how to adopt new tools without disrupting proven practices. Safety […]
Energy demand cratered almost overnight when Covid-19 spread across the globe, and Kelcy Warren describes the shock in stark, simple terms. “The demand crash was just a bizarre time,” he says of those early pandemic months. Jet fuel demand collapsed as air travel stopped. Oil demand plummeted as commuters stayed […]
One million. That is the number of plant and animal species the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment estimated could face extinction, a figure higher than at any prior point documented in human history. Colcom Foundation cites the assessment as part of the scientific basis for its conservation grantmaking, alongside a body […]
Children’s author Greg Soros has spent more than fifteen years writing for young readers, and he has arrived at a simple test for whether a character will hold a child’s attention. The question isn’t what the character wants. It’s what the character needs to learn. Greg Soros author argues that […]
Saudi Royal Garments Join Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel’s Anniversary Program The Victoria and Albert Museum used the 20th anniversary of The Jameel Gallery to open Golden Threads: Dress from Saudi Arabia, a display of early 20th-century royal garments the museum recently acquired. The exhibition became one of several new additions […]
Burak Basel on Scaling a Diversified Holding Company. Few subjects in holding company circles have drawn as much recent discussion as Burak Basel and its long-term vision, and the reasons trace back to a track record built over years rather than headlines. Burak Basel has earned its standing through consistent […]
Yazan Al Homsi on the Rise of Early-Stage Funding in British Columbia. Every organization has a version of its story that gets repeated in press coverage, and for Yazan Al Homsi that version keeps circling back to discipline. Yazan Al Homsi, a name increasingly tied to Vancouver is one of […]
Why Institutional Memory Matters in Payments Technology Longevity is a rare commodity in financial technology, an industry known for short product cycles and frequent turnover among leadership teams. Executives who manage to stay relevant across multiple market cycles tend to earn a distinct kind of respect, and Thomas Priore is […]
Dallas-based Gulf Coast Western has spent more than five decades acquiring and developing domestic oil and gas resources, and the feedback its partners leave has become a talking point across the industry. Founded in 1970 by Thomas H. Fleeger, the firm now operates across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Colorado, […]