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Welcome to the Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL) and ASK Magazine. APPL helps NASA managers and project teams accomplish today's missions and meet tomorrow's challenges by providing performance enhancement services and tools, supporting career development programs, sponsoring knowledge sharing events and publications, and creating opportunities for project management collaboration with universities, professional associations, industry partners and other government agencies. ASK Magazine grew out of APPL's Knowledge Sharing Initiative. The stories that appear in ASK are written by the 'best of the best' project managers, primarily from NASA, but also from other government agencies and industry. These stories contain genuine nuggets of knowledge and wisdom that are transferable across projects. Who better than a project manager to help another project manager address a critical issue on a project? Big projects, smaLl projects-they're ali here in ASK. Stories in this issue include: Earthly Considerations on Mars, Getting Politically Active, Stumping for the Project, Grins & Giggles: The Launch Pad to High Performance, Transfer Wisdom Workshops: Coming to a NASA Center Near You, Project Management: The Television Show, Lessons Learned Again and Again and Again, Implementation Reviews, ASK Talks with Dr. Michael Hecht, and What Is This Fourth Dimension?.

The efforts were enough for Mr. Rosenberger to raise a total of $780,000, including $200,000 from the Urban Redevelopment Authority, $200,000 from Innovation Works, $50,000 from Idea Foundry and hundreds of thousands from angel investors. Since its creation, Thread has recycled millions of tons of plastic into polyester textiles, including 660,000 pounds last year alone.

Prior to Thursday's official Pittsburgh launch, Strip District-based Pittsburgh Public Market, Oakland startup accelerator Idea Foundry, Homewood community organization Operation Better Block, community development organization Lawrenceville Corp., Garfield small business organization Christian Evangelistic Economic Development, Lawrenceville co-working organization CatapultPGH, landscaping organization Shadyside Nursery and Urban Innovation21 were all signed on as trustees.