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Amazon is renaming the Seattle NHL stadium Climate Pledge Arena

The Verge

It will officially be known as the Climate Pledge Arena, a nod to the $2 billion initiative CEO Jeff Bezos announced last year, which sets goals for Amazon to become net carbon neutral by 2040. Seattle’s NHL team doesn’t have a name yet, but its arena does, after Amazon secured the naming rights to the former Key Arena.

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The most innovative companies in economic development for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Naval Shipyard with a $1 billion diversity pledge. But the challenging road required to hit that target inspired the city government to seek out new kinds of partnerships to meet that bold pledge. These grants aim to give storefront space to new businesses without the burden of long-term rent agreements and high overhead.

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Unsmoke Canada and The Great Outdoors Fund expand grant program to tackle litter in communities across Canada

Charity Village

The Unsmoke Canada Cleanups grant program has been expanded to support more non-profit organizations tackle litter cleanup projects in communities across Canada. In 2022, $90,000 will be pledged in grants.

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Amazon will spend $2 billion to try to fix affordable housing crises in three major employment hubs

The Verge

Amazon has pledged to spend more than $2 billion over the next five years to build tens of thousands of affordable housing units in three of the e-commerce giant’s major employment hubs, underscoring the ongoing housing crises affecting parts of the US where large, high-paying tech employers reside. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Trying to provide all the proper links and information within our microsite and Facebook application proved too cumbersome, and so we chose to go with a user flow that included a pledge, followed up with an e-mail offering all the details and links to get the precise information needed for a participant’s location. What are your KPIs?

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

September 23, 2021 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced grants totaling at least $300 million in support of thirty-three investigators who are tackling some of the most challenging problems in biomedical research. Philanthropies pledge $5 billion to 'Protecting Our Planet Challenge'. Read more. .

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Bezos’ climate fund faces a reckoning with Amazon’s pollution

The Verge

His grants, announced in November , have already fattened the budgets of some mainstream advocacy groups, such as the Environmental Defense Fund. The majority of his grants went to larger organizations with less diverse leadership. The EDF tells The Verge it has already received its $100 million grant.

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