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Dash Systems raises $8M for precision-airdrops-as-a-service at distant or disaster-stricken destinations

TechCrunch

“And when I say anywhere, I mean like the tip of Alaska. “The rural use case is easy to get,” said Miller, noting the difficulty and delays of delivering to rural communities in Alaska. Why do you need to land at all? “We should be able to do one-day deliveries anywhere in the world,” he told TechCrunch.

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Builders and VCs explore the impact of air mobility on urban planning at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

In 2021, UP.Partners launched a $230 million venture capital fund , which includes investments from Alaska Air Group (the parent company of Alaska Air), Cathie Wood and Woven Capital. . Gysin and Sigari bring an abundance of knowledge and experience in eVTOL and UAM from both the builder and investor point of view.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. Grants are made to Alaska-based nonprofits, individual artists, and nonprofit leaders. Moody Foundation.

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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

Tocqueville declared in Democracy in America that these associations were indispensable to a functional democracy and that the knowledge of how to work together was the “mother of all forms of knowledge” in a democratic country. These states are Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota, and Vermont.

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November Cause Awareness: National Native American Heritage Month

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Elliott-High Eagle, a Cherokee Indian, created the first official week of awareness and recognition for American Indian and Alaska natives in October 1976. College students who are Native American, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian can apply for the fellowship, which they can put towards their education. President Gerald R.

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Generate Biomedicines raises $370M Series B with a focus on protein-based drugs

TechCrunch

The ultimate goal is to use this knowledge to make novel proteins that could one day perform “the majority of life’s functions,” as Mike Nally, the CEO of Generate Biomedicines, told TechCrunch. . The round will include Alaska Permanent Fund, Altitude Life Science Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners and funds and accounts advised by T.

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Website Design SoupChat: Top Tips and Resources

Tech Soup

Participants joined from social media and the TechSoup community, some having arrived fresh from a webinar on websites for libraries held the previous hour, where presenters from Alaska, Nebraska, and Colorado shared their web designs and took questions on their respective hosting platforms.