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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. She is a poet, an environmental activist, and a nonprofit management expert with a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. To be sure, Nancy Jo Craig is an accomplished woman.

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Inside the ‘slow-rolling catastrophe’ of Trump’s NOAA cuts

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” The moves have drawn outrage from Democratic members of Congress and the general public. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images] Maryland congressman Chris Van Hollen called the cuts an assault on our public safety. In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go. Photo: Helen H.

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NOAA-cuts could impact life-saving avalanche forecasts

Fast Company Tech

who warn the public about avalanches are sounding a different type of alarm. Recovery efforts for three victims of a large avalanche near Anchorage , Alaska, were ongoing Thursday, two days after the accident in mountains where forecasters had warned it would be easy to trigger a slide that day because of a weak layer in the deep snow.

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Trump wants to cut more disaster recovery funding. Nearly every Congressional district has recently needed the money

Fast Company Tech

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also plays a significant role by helping cities and states rebuild after hurricanes, wildfires, and other climate impacts. Rebuild by Design began as a HUD-launched design competition in 2013 to respond to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. are represented by Democrats.

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