In today’s rundown: A local media giant offers help to local nonprofits. Will a jobs czar improve the unemployment rate in D.C.? And why women are the key to economic growth.
— Discovery Impact is now taking applications from nonprofits interested in receiving pro bono advertising and marketing materials as part of their Creating Change 2011 program. Nonprofits are encouraged to apply by clicking here.
— Later today, DC Council member Vincent Orange will propose hiring a jobs czar to help combat the city’s nearly record high unemployment rate, reports DCentric. One of the czar’s roles would be to ensure that DC residents have first dibs on certain jobs.
— Women are a vital source to global economic expansion, according to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Women’s eNews reports on Clinton’s comments made at an economic summit in California last week.
