Several California state parks marked for closure because of steep spending cuts remained open past the weekend's deadline through a mix of philanthropic support and infusion of government funds.
According to Kathryn Phillips, director of Sierra Club California, the 11th-hour budget dealing produced a kind of mixed bag for parks, which still need a long-term funding solution but still they're very happy the parks are getting a reprieve.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.