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Government contracts and nonprofit organizations: Problems and solutions

ASU Lodestar Center

There is a long history of nonprofit organizations partnering with the government, usually at the state level, through contracts to help provide for and respond to community needs. Still, changing terms mid-contract does little to help establish trust for a positive nonprofit/government relationship. sector and the government.

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Americans' Urge to Help Overcomes Lock Down Limitations

VisionLink

In the face of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD), Visionlink’s Disaster Technologies Division and Sterling Volunteers are partnering in a public-private pro bono effort to help state governments and non-profit agencies mobilize the desire of Americans to provide help from a safe distance.

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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

TechCrunch

Emerge Career is working on changing that, and its early success in putting formerly incarcerated folks to work is attracting investment from both VCs and government programs. Education options during and after incarceration have never been particularly extensive, despite the best intentions of educators.

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Apple is reportedly relying on states to pay for digital ID rollouts

The Verge

Additionally, states are responsible for promoting the digital ID service to citizens, as well as encouraging its adoption among members of the federal and state government, including local police and the Internal Revenue Service. The Verge reached out to Apple with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.

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Emerge Career’s tech-forward job training lets incarcerated folks hit the road on release

TechCrunch

“So we felt the need to start a separate entity for upskilling formerly incarcerated people, and using government money to do it,” Orchingwa continued. ” These providers tend to be local vocational schools and community colleges with very limited resources. . If the model works, it benefits everyone.

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How Bezos’ latest plan to protect forests could backfire

The Verge

Last year, after he pledged $10 billion to fight climate change, activists in the US called him out for not doing enough to cut down Amazon’s pollution or work with local communities while crafting his environmental plans. This time, he’s facing similar criticisms on a global scale. The worst-case scenario is they do a lot of damage”.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

TechCrunch

With these issues not leaving Africa anytime soon, we should expect stronger crypto growth despite several governments’ efforts to stifle it. Still, it is when compared with its peers in Africa as no local crypto platform serving just Africa has reached a million customers.

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