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Closing racial wealth gaps with community land trusts 

Candid

economy creates immediate and long-term economic and social challenges that affect all Americans. Paul, Minnesota, and Memphis, Tennessee, are exploring community and trusts supports an expanded approach to making homeownership accessible. Memphis is doing something similar in its Orange Mound neighborhood.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

TechCrunch

Indeed, two of the best funded companies in the lab-grown meat market hail from The Netherlands, where Mosa Meat is being challenged by a newer upstart, Meatable , which just announced $47 million in new financing. The company aims to have its first product approved by European regulators by 2023 and notching commercial sales by 2025.

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Advice for a Record-Breaking Fundraising Year

Saleforce Nonprofit

Even more, during this challenging time, we must ensure that our supporters understand that cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases don’t and won’t stop during a pandemic — and that we need their compassion and generosity to advance cures and give children a chance to grow up. Jude is able to rise and attempt to meet the challenge.

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Leaving the $3.2

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Lalo launches an app to memorialize loved ones

TechCrunch

That’s been a challenge with some investors,” Medina told TechCrunch. The app also offers prompts, which were developed with guidance from board member Dr. Robert Niemeyer, a psychology professor at the University of Memphis who is an expert on grief.

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Craft the Perfect Tagline for Your Organization

NonProfit Hub

Go beyond the immediate problem that your team solves and look to the big-picture challenges that grab people emotionally. urged people to tackle a challenge, and illustrated the store’s role in that small triumph. What benefit does your organization provide? Focus on that final outcome without overpromising. We can help.,”

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Why you want your nonprofit to fail

ASU Lodestar Center

However, when these metrics are designed with a grander purpose in mind, they serve as sneak peeks into our future, showing us new challenges and opportunities. Prior to attending ASU, she worked for Teach For America * Memphis.