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NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk's Starship, Even Though It's Never Launched Without Exploding

Futurism

The space agency announced last week that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings." The news shouldn't come as a surprise at this point given SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's growing influence in the White House.

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Activision Blizzard won’t play a part at The Game Awards this year

The Verge

The Game Awards. Geoff Keighley, the executive producer and host of The Game Awards, sent out a tweet to confirm that outside of its nominations, Activision Blizzard “will not be a part of this year’s #TheGameAwards.” Rob Kostich, the president of Activision Blizzard serves on The Game Awards’ board of advisors.

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The Verge Awards at CES 2021: can’t touch this

The Verge

Rating the all-digital Consumer Electronics Show Last year, we opened our awards for the annual Consumer Electronics Show by saying “oh, what a difference 12 months makes.” This year’s awards are bestowed on a beleaguered, but not beaten, CES. This award comes with some caveats. Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. Our discussion about the Summit Award launched a wide-ranging conversation. Zonta offers a variety of scholarships and awards.

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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. “Is it even possible to measure online influence, divorced from offline influence?&#

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Top 10 Tweets From the 2014 Cause Marketing Forum

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The founder of Twitter himself, Evan Williams, has said that influence on Twitter is not primarily in follower count, but rather in how often a user is retweeted. DoSomething wins Innovation Award for their Do-Not-Text-While-Driving campaign: [link] || #CMF2014 pic.twitter.com/qczdVxLXAO. — @NonprofitOrgs (@nonprofitorgs) May 28, 2014.

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Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Jamie Biggar of Canadian organization Leadnow

Care2

Biggar receives a cash award of $1,000, and Care2 will donate an additional $1,000 to his favorite charity. Under Biggar’s leadership, the 2-year-old organization has already grown to 220,000 members, and has built a record of influencing Canadian politics and legislative change.

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