ChangeThis :: Why Craigslist Works, by Craig

Why Craigslist Works, by Craig

ChangeThis :: Why Craigslist Works, by Craig

Craig Newmark A ChangeThis exclusive: The craigslist founder reveals the values that made craigslist a success.

craigslist started as a small email list for a group of friends in Northern California. Ten years later, it's a global phenomenon. In a ChangeThis exclusive, Craig Newmark talks about the values that got his business from there to here.


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What Does Iran Want? Atomic research, atomic power, even atomic weapons

What Does Iran Want? Atomic research, atomic power, even the atomic weapons

NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS: Highlights and Exclusives, Jan. 23, 2006 Issue

What Does Iran Want? Atomic research, atomic power, even the atomic weapons
the Iranian government officially says it doesn't want, are issues of ferocious nationalistic pride throughout the country, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows it, report Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey, Special Correspondent Maziar Bahari and Correspondent Babak Dehghanpisheh.

Last week he provoked an international crisis by removing the seals from nuclear-processing equipment, ending a voluntary moratorium on research.

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6 years after death, Piper still giving financial boosts

6 years after death, Piper still giving financial boosts

6 years after death, Piper still giving financial boosts

Max Jarman
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 15, 2006 12:00 AM

She was elegant but unpretentious. She loved cats, musicals, big American cars, writing letters and, most of all, helping other people.

It tied in with her Catholic faith and traditional Midwestern values.

When Paradise Valley resident Virginia G. Piper died in June 1999 at age 87, she left $590 million to a non-profit foundation she had already formed. Piper, once married to Motorola founder Paul V. Galvin, had done charitable work on her own since the 1950s. advertisement




In the 6 1/2 years since her death, the Scottsdale-based Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, one of the nation's 100 largest foundations, has given away $132 million to arts, health care, religious, education and social-service groups in Maricopa County. Her and the trust's gifts have touched the lives of countless people.

Piper's name is on dozens of institutions and programs in the Valley. Among them: the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare, the Virginia G. Piper Theater at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University and the Virginia G. Piper Music Director Chair at the Phoenix Symphony.

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