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Americans' Urge to Help Overcomes Lock Down Limitations

VisionLink

The partners do this by providing systems for screening, matching, and management of offers of goods, services and volunteers state by state. Analytical reporting of volunteers and in-kind giving is also available to state leadership and agencies participating in the system to support decision making and operational priorities.

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

TechCrunch

The startup, itself about to emerge from Y Combinator’s latest batch, was founded by two people who had been working on improving another shortcoming of the prison system: video calls. ” These providers tend to be local vocational schools and community colleges with very limited resources.

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

TechCrunch

Security and limited budgets at vocational and community colleges limit the amount of help they can actually offer people in the system, and courses from GEDs to trades often take a very “study by mail” approach during incarceration, or traditional brick and mortar one on release.

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Government contracts and nonprofit organizations: Problems and solutions

ASU Lodestar Center

Through this powerful partnership, local services have improved, such as: enhanced human services, increased community development, greater economic development, and superior environmental protection. The solution to the “broken contracting system” is the creation of a joint. sector and the government. seek solutions.

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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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General Motors, after flubbing its deal with Nikola, eyes a new hydrogen truck project

The Verge

Here’s how Navistar is describing the International RH Series truck’s propulsion system: The International RH Series FCEV [fuel cell electric vehicle] will get its energy from two GM Hydrotec fuel cell power cubes. Each Hydrotec power cube contains 300-plus hydrogen fuel cells along with thermal and power management systems.

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How heavy metals get into baby food—and what California is doing to help parents

Fast Company Tech

For example, local water that contains heavy metals is often used to rinse debris and bugs off natural products, such as leaves used to make a widely used supplement called kratom. Michael White is a distinguished professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Connecticut. Sometimes the contamination happens after harvesting.