The NonProfit Times

JUNE 19, 2024

(Photo courtesy of Bank of America) There’s a big difference between running a marathon and achieving a high jump – unless one is talking to the Boston Athletic Association, organizers of the Boston Marathon. million total claimed by the Boston Athletic Association. The final donation tally leapt from $40.2 While 2024’s $45.7

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Boston Flying directly from Seoul to Boston (via Dallas), I jumped into an experts’ meeting on the Marrakesh Treaty. New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The two companies underscore how possible it is to build large startups in markets outside of the traditional collection of cities most associated with technology entrepreneurship in the United States, like Boston, New York City and San Francisco, to name a few. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

After all, the food and restaurant industry was deemed essential amid global shutdowns, but finding kitchen staff proved a problem for many, especially early on when questions remained around COVID’s transmission. First serving up food at the school’s dining hall, the team ultimately opened a pair of automated restaurants in the Boston area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The global startup community is currently enjoying a period of fundraising success that may be unprecedented in the history of technology and venture capital. While this is happening around the world, few startup hubs in the world are reveling in a greater boost to their ability to attract capital than Boston. The well-known U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Boston, MA – August 28. Check out our new website featuring a video of Guy Kawasaki’s keynote speech in San Francisco, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay tuned, and here’s our schedule of upcoming events: Toronto, Ontario – June 26. Silicon Valley, CA – July 26. Los Angeles, CA – August 14.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Tiger Global led the round and was joined by new investors, including DFJ Growth Fund, the social impact foundation, ZOMA Lab; athletes Lewis Hamilton and Roger Federer; and musician and DJ Questlove. Sales overall have grown three times annually over the past four years, something Muchnick said was attractive to Tiger Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2005

The Global s Summit takes place on December 10th and is an opportunity for contributors and community members to take stock of what we???ve ve done, promote our successes, and brainstorm about what a global citizens??? Airport: Arrive in Terminal 3 from Boston on Virgin Atlantic red eye at 6:33 a.m. I've got to get organized.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hello, you crunchy delights, Dunno ’bout you, but we’re getting a little excited about our TC Early Stage event in Boston on April 20, and Darrell just announced the first group of speakers for the event. One of the more popular announcements today is that its newer AI-powered “multisearch” has gone global. PST, subscribe here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2012

The case study – “Networking a City” – features the Barr Fellowship, which is an effort by the Boston-based Barr Foundation to celebrate and connect extraordinary nonprofit leaders in its home city. .” A new case study in the Stanford Social Innovation Review injects that most potent of weapons – love – into the debate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is why we’re excited that Mark Crane , a partner at General Catalyst, will hold forth at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. Crane has been a partner at General Catalyst, a Top 20 global investment firm with a large Boston office, for the past four years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene. Playground Global, an early-stage investment firm based in Palo Alto, discovered the robot the way most of us did – watching cool videos online. “We Commercial applications, however, are a different conversation entirely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

On April 20th, TechCrunch will host TechCrunch Early Stage in Boston – an event designed to equip entrepreneurs will all the tools needed to build their unicorn startups. Neesha is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. No founder event would be complete without pitches! Founders can apply here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 16, 2016

Attended by over 4,000 fundraising professionals, the 2016 AFP International Fundraising Conference will be held March 20-22 in Boston, MA. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. The research is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

secretary of labor, Marty Walsh; inventor Dean Kamen; and Amazon’s VP of Global Robotics, Joseph Quinlivan. We’ll also be speaking with top VCs and the CEOs of Boston Dynamics, Sarcos, Locus Robotics, Fetch and more, along with demos from researchers and bleeding-edge startups like Agility. We’ve got headliners like the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Boston-based Realtime Robotics this morning announced a $31.4 This round, which nearly doubles the company’s existing funding, will be used to accelerate its product development and extend its offering to more markets, globally. It comes as interest in robotics have ramped up amid the global pandemic. million round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The Baupost Group is investing in the company — it’s a Boston-based hedge fund. We have bold plans for the future to continue delivering critical innovation to our premium media partners worldwide and expanding our powerful open web global advertising platform” Outbrain co-CEO Yaron Galai said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And public-to-private sector business makes up 14% of global GDP, and even a 1% improvement could save €20 billion for taxpayers per year, according to the European Commission. Competitors include: Global Data, Contracts Advance, BIP Solutions, Spend Network/Open Opps, Tussel and TenderLake. We have seen the controversy around U.K.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

They also include geo hashtags in their captions, in this case, the neighborhood of #Roxbury in Boston: Also, if you are a location-based nonprofit, don’t be bashful about geotagging yourself. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 10% of online donors have made a donation through Instagram Charitable Tools.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Global Fund For Children. The Boston Foundation. Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. Global Fund For Children. The Boston Foundation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The second deal was led by Global Founders Capital. And while Anderson, Laverty and Ioffe are based in Boston, they are hiring remotely. The startup serves global customers via a WhatsApp integration. The founders said that the new funds were raised at a higher price-point than its previous seed tranche.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

It’s a big morning for fintech startups today: Flywire , a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, has filed to go public. Flywire is a global payments company that attracted more than $300 million as a startup, according to Crunchbase , most recently raising a $60 million Series F last month. Let’s dig in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It’s no secret that funding is harder to come by in this economy, and that’s just one reason why we’re thrilled that Kerty Levy, managing director at Techstars, will share her expertise at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. What will the funding scene in these major metropolitan areas look like this year?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Boston-based BitSight says the investment from Moody’s, which has long warned that cyber risk can impact credit ratings , will enable it to create a cybersecurity risk platform, while the credit ratings giant said it plans to make use of BitSight’s cyber risk data and research across its integrated risk assessment product offerings.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

Two days after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the Boston Foundation set up a special fund to provide rapid-response support to local nonprofits serving communities disproportionately affected by the outbreak.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Snyk , the Boston-based late-stage startup that is trying to help developers deliver more secure code, announced another mega-round today. Sands Capital Ventures and Tiger Global led the round, with participation from new investors Baillie Gifford, Koch Industries, Lone Pine Capital, T. This one was for $530 million on an $8.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style. holiday shopping fair trade

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Byun/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Music is already bringing millions of people together in Fortnite , from our emotes to global concerts and events,” Alain Tascan, Epic’s VP of game development, said in a statement. Photo by Yoon S. The studio also explained its plans to expand into — what else?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Startups need to live in the future.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

RightHand Robotics had already amassed its share of buzz well before this whole pandemic thing really accelerated things, raising a fair amount from investors like GV, Menlo and Playground Global over a series of rounds. Funding will go toward the usual things: hiring, getting more office space and further scaling globally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

With a great vantage point from his perspective as Global Startup Pipeline Manager at Techstars, Karim will be hosting a session on the Extra Crunch stage discussing how to craft a pitch deck that cannot be ignored. Capital Ventures in Sydney, before jetting to Boston to work as the VP of growth at StartupCMO.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Boston nonprofit looks to link global innovators - The Boston Globe: "After 18 months of planning, a nonprofit group called Boston World Partnerships will deploy 125 business leaders and academics to take the city's promotion beyond traditional trade missions and conventions.One tool going live today is an interactive website, www.bostonworld partnerships.com, (..)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

SOC Prime , a Boston-based early-stage startup that claims to have built the world’s largest threat detection marketplace, has secured $11 million in Series A funding. The power of the global threat hunting community is an untapped resource for security teams around the world,” said Andrii Bezverkhyi, founder and CEO of SOC Prime.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

While Bellow is based in Boston, he says the startup is “globally distributed.”). Huang introduced Bellows and his staff to Amex’s Digital Labs team and they embarked on jointly developing a specialized offering for Amex customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The company’s co-founder, Neville Boston, is basically trying to build a company under the hardest conditions imaginable. Everybody’s looking at things being spun up quickly, getting funded quickly, and you exit quickly,” Boston said in an interview with TechCrunch last week. Surely, there has to be a better way?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The two are originally from Ecuador but moved to Boston for college, where they met watching soccer. Schwarzkopf and his business partner, Sebastián Castro, had previously built and sold a fintech called Leaf in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Thrasio , the Boston-based startup, has closed an all-equity Series D of over $1 billion — a huge infusion in cash that it will be using to continue buying up more companies as well as to expand internationally. One of the reasons it has raised so much in this round is to better target that global opportunity.

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