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Ascend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance

TechCrunch

He also expects to get licensed to operate as a full payment in processors in all states so the company can be in all 50 states by the end of the year. This is the first funding for the company that is live in 20 states. The customers are big digital insurance brokerages and represent, together, $2.5 billion in premiums.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. especially Dennis Yu, Chad King and Austin Stierler — who took us under their wing and agreed to host us for free.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

The charity pricing on it is is free for up to ten licenses with as much as a 75% discount per seat above that. The centerpiece of the philanthropic project is a cloud networking solution that’s free (forever) to 501(c)(3) organizations that need ten licenses or fewer. Larger nonprofits can get additional licenses at half off.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

in congratulating NTENny Award winners and NetSquared organizers Jason King (formerly of NetSquared London), Chad Leaman (NetSquared Vancouver), Roshani Kothari (NetSquared DC), Sarah Rasmussen (PDXtech4good), and Tony Caufield (Tech4Good Las Vegas). IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Please join NTEN (and me!)

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida. 7) Kimberly Niezgoda Kimberly Niezgoda (linkedin.com/kimberly-auctioneer) is your go to licensed auctioneer specializing in charity/benefit/gala live auctions. She’s been a licensed auctioneer in Texas since 2016 and have since called hundreds of various types of auctions.

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OK Goes its own way

Fast Company Tech

With little more guiding the decision than artistic license, OK Go has decided that the ambitious videos it creates will still be ambitious. And months later, Kulash recalls getting an email from chad@youtube.com (Chad Hurley, who cofounded the site) asking they copy it over.

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Chocolate prices will continue to rise. Blame aridity

Fast Company Tech

Large parts of the country of Chad, shown here, have drying lands. Photo: United Nations Chad , CC BY-NC-SA ] The soil-biodiversity connection Soil, often overlooked in discussions of climate resilience, plays a critical role in mitigating aridity. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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