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2-1-1 Connecting Communities

VisionLink

What was a source of information, are quickly becoming the trusted and necessary managers of community-wide information used to support inquiries from the public, state and county governments, nonprofits, and more--and able to do so every day, during disasters and emergencies, and for broad and specialized sectors.

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Safe & Well in Troubled Times

VisionLink

National Public Radio broadcast one of those riveting stories they do so well, in part from a disaster shelter where the Safe and Well system was being used to reconnect friends and family. It is a good blend of easy to use, useful, and respectfully private. It''s a short 4 minute story, listen here.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

.orgSource

To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. If organizations are not shaping work around the needs, interests, aspirations, and motivations of the employee, at the least you’re seeing sub optimization, and at the worst, you may be seeing disaster.

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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

The truth is that fundraisers must sort out when and how to message their constituents using positive, negative, or a blend of both. These images are especially useful for timely situations such as natural disasters, protests against racism, or economic turbulence. The truth is relative So, what’s a fundraiser to do?

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The Many Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can learn more about the environment, about human rights, about development aid, about the digital divide, about microfinance, about healthy food and about disaster response. I was excited to be part of two sessions about improving disaster response through technology and corporate engagement with NGOs.

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HYCU locks down additional funding to grow its cloud data protection business

TechCrunch

A hybrid cloud blends two or more different types of clouds (e.g., A hybrid cloud blends two or more different types of clouds (e.g., Specifically, HYCU sells products — most of them self-serve — for cloud migration, security credential management, disaster recovery, and backup and recovery.

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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest

TechCrunch

Nutritionally speaking, Solein resembles some existing foodstuffs — sitting between dried meat, dried carrot or dried soy in terms of the blend of vitamins, amino acids, proteins (overall, it’s 65% protein), per Vainikka. So there’s a fascinating blend of old and new coming together in the startup’s bioreactor.