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More than just fans: How women are reshaping baseball on and off the field

Fast Company Tech

The Philadelphia Phillies offer behind-the-scenes tours and clinics for their female fans, while the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees offer fantasy camps that are geared to women. In 1974, the National Organization for Women filed a lawsuit against Little League Baseball because the leagues charter excluded girls from playing.

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Minter-Jordan Picked As New CEO At AARP

The NonProfit Times

MBA, is the new chief executive officer of AARP, the nation’s largest nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older. Minter-Jordan joins AARP from the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health in Boston, Massachusetts where she was president and CEO. This is a pivotal moment for AARP and the nation.

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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

Candid

In 1837 Richard Humphreys established the African Institute, now Cheyney University, in Pennsylvania making it the oldest historically Black university in the United States. As a proud alum of Howard University and Fisk University, I understand how critical HBCUs are in the professional and personal development of generations.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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Bot MD, an AI-based chatbot for doctors, raises $5 million for expansion into more Asian markets

TechCrunch

It is currently used by about 13,000 doctors at organizations including Changi General Hospital, National University Health System, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore General Hospital, Parkway Radiology and the National Kidney Transplant Institute.

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How the Boston Red Sox Knock It Out of the Park with Analytics and AI

DataRobot

Baseball very much remains America’s national pastime, but Major League Baseball (MLB) has faced its share of challenges recently. Even a franchise as universally successful and iconic as the Boston Red Sox -- four World Series championships since 2004 paired with massive popularity off the field -- is not immune to these challenges.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The Boston Foundation. They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. . While most grants are made in Arizona, grants may be made nationally as well. Mellon Foundation.

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