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Alaska Airlines evacuated a plane after a phone burst into flame

The Verge

Alaska Airlines airplanes. Image: Alaska Airlines. A cell phone caught fire in the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight that had landed in Seattle from New Orleans on Monday evening. However, during an interview with one of our Port of Seattle Police officers, the passenger volunteered the phone was a Samsung Galaxy A21.

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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, my adventure in Alaska started with a meeting with representatives from community foundations around the state of Alaska hosted by the Alaska Community Foundation. So, I did an ambush interview ask him to share why community giving is important. I hope you’ll take the five minutes to watch the clip.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

My internship took place at Fairbanks Youth Advocates in Fairbanks, Alaska. I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. There weren’t many options in Alaska, so I had to expand my search. Then we conducted volunteer interviews. I looked up shelters all over the U.S. and Canada. and fingerprinting.

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Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync

TechCrunch

. “The pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in traditional network infrastructure, prompting a surge in demand for contactless solutions,” Fish, who serves as the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. Changes to data locally will offline sync once Ditto discovers cloud or peer devices, according to Fish.

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HearHere raises $3.2M to scale its immersive storytelling road-trip app

TechCrunch

HearHere CEO and co-founder Woody Sears told TechCrunch in an interview that the stories inform users about the history and natural landscape of the area that they’re in. About half of the stories featured in the app are based on history, while the rest focus on national wonders, sports, music and local insights.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Your focus should be on trying to get your local television station, your local newspaper, your local radio station – or maybe you pitch the national news (depending on the nature of the story). Look for bloggers both locally and nationally who are covering your space that may be interested in writing about you.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing.

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