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Social Media in Crisis Communication: A Lesson Learned by Charlotte Meckelnburg Library

NTEN

Jenifer R Daniels, Communications & Marketing Specialist, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Unfortunately, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s budget woes were defined by all three. She also serves as adjunct faculty at a community college in the metro Charlotte region. Many are turning to social media to assist them. .

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Amazon’s Fire TV is adding local news in many more cities

The Verge

At that time, the app offered local news coverage in 12 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, and more. But today, Amazon says it’s expanding local news to “88 major cities” across the US, “including popular local stations from news distributors such as ABC Owned Television Stations, CBSN, TEGNA, Cox, The E.W.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. The story is about how Diane has run into trouble with the local planning board is described here on her GoFundMe page and has incurred legal fees. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Empowering Young Voices Globally in the Fight for Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Through a range of projects that combine science and technology, students develop a wealth of skills applicable to their futures — from learning to own and take responsibility for a project from A to Z, to discovering the impact of data analysis and sharing at local and global levels. Charlotte Kirby.

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Giving Days: How We Helped Raise Nearly $40,000 For A Local Nonprofit

Achieve

by Charlotte Gill. This post originally appeared on. Nonprofits First. The recent Great Give was a boon for. The Guatemalan-Maya Center. (a a nonprofit member at Nonprofits First), which brought in. nearly $40,000 during the one-day fundraising event. .

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This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

TechCrunch

But this month, Homebound will be expanding to Austin, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. It’s going to be a huge market for us.”.

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Founded by Opendoor and Twilio alums, Nomad closes on $20M to ‘transform the landlord-tenant experience’

TechCrunch

Last year, the company also entered the Phoenix market, and is eyeing Raleigh and then Charlotte, North Carolina, next. It also plans to continue to invest in its technology and partner with local real estate agents, property managers, lenders and service professionals. Nomad’s investors are, naturally, bullish.