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The more you know: Key facts about Black nonprofit leadership 

Candid

Black CEOs are also notably underrepresented in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama. The South’s history of Black leadership has fostered strong roots for Black-led nonprofits, but systemic racism and chronic underinvestment limit their expansion,” says Taylor Batten. The gap is largest in Washington, D.C.,

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In his first Amazon shareholder letter, CEO Andy Jassy talks AWS, Prime, and labor

The Verge

Amazon is currently in the middle of two disputed unionization elections, one in Bessemer, Alabama (where the union objected to Amazon’s actions against campaigners), the other in Staten Island, New York (where Amazon objected following the union’s historic win). But Jassy is silent on the topic of labor organization.

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What Can Salesforce Do for Education?

Cloud 4 Good

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been able to migrate from TargetX into a custom EDA environment for recruitment & admissions that is compatible with Saleforce.org’s new Admissions Connect tool. The entire Cloud for Good team has been fantastic to work with. ?All

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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Mr. Hinton spent almost 30 years on death row in Alabama. Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. So while it was an extraordinary moment, there is so much about our history that we’ve got to change. Because in his words, “hope is a superpower.”.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

VisionLink

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim''s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.''

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Friends of Dallas Animal Services: Creating Limitless Possibilities for the Animals of Dallas

DipJar

But the history and relationship of these two organizations goes back further – and is broader – than this one important program. In the case of kitten season, FODAS funding provides support for mothers and their kittens, taking care of orphaned kittens, purchasing incubators, and the fostering/adoption process.

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Battery investment moves onshore to kick-start US EV production

TechCrunch

In July, Kansas and North Carolina each announced the largest economic development projects in their histories, and Ford finalized a deal to bring its battery production to Tennessee and Kentucky. according to AlixPartners.