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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

Candid

While almost a third of grants went to organizations in Ukraine, recipient countries reflect giving to local chapters of the Red Cross and other international relief organizations, or to their Geneva-based headquarters. $13,900,000. United Kingdom. 12,071,840. 6,780,000. 5,879,225. 4,160,200. 2,075,850. United Kingdom. 20,000,000.

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Spend management startup Pleo lays off 15% of its workforce

TechCrunch

Yet the world has changed and our next chapter will look different. Last year, the company had 20,000 customers across six countries — Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Ireland and the U.K. We’re no longer operating under a ‘growth first’ mandate but rather a reality of ‘growth through focus and efficiency’. It’s difficult.

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A dating app — not Facebook or Clubhouse — cracked getting audio to go viral

The Verge

In Denmark, Strunge says the company has 100,000 paying subscribers out of a market of 6 million people. Three Uncanny Four’s Bad Blood: The Final Chapter is the top paid show, which, as we last know from September , had 6,000 paying subscribers.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries. I wrote a chapter in The Participatory Museum about it, but I continue to seek out really good examples of participatory project evaluation. This question of evaluation is still very open.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries. I wrote a chapter in The Participatory Museum about it, but I continue to seek out really good examples of participatory project evaluation. This question of evaluation is still very open.

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This ambitious proposal would radically reinvent Europe’s rail system

Fast Company Tech

France has a great transportation network, and we do in Denmark as well,” says Pour, who’s based in Copenhagen. “This train needs to be a landmark for Europe’s next chapter.” “Networks are good within nations. “But as soon as trains cross borders things start to crack.”

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As Trump threatens to take over Greenland, its melting ice caps could hold a solution to our clean energy future

Fast Company Tech

While the island, an autonomous territory of Denmark, has made clear it is not for sale, its government is signaling it is open to business, particularly in the minerals sector. But it also found no significant pollution at mines established in the last 20 years.

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