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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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Swimming with a Sea Turtle (Video): Water Wednesday

Have Fun - Do Good

On World Oceans Day (June 8), I pledged to highlight the oceans on Have Fun * Do Good for four weeks. Watching this video, I can't help but think about one of the top emailed and viewed New York Times stories today, The 'Busy' Trap. For this fourth and final week, I'm sharing a video of a sea turtle swimming in Hawaii.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Philanthropies pledge $5 billion to 'Protecting Our Planet Challenge'. September 22, 2021 Nine philanthropic organizations have collectively pledged $5 billion over ten years in support of the creation, expansion, management, and monitoring of protected and conserved areas of land, inland water, and sea. Read more. .

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

HP, WWF expand forest conservation, restoration partnership. has announced an $80 million pledge in support of its partnership with the World Wildlife Fund to address the impacts on forests of printing with HP printers. October 28, 2021. Read more. . Rockefeller Foundation commits $150 million for pandemic prevention.

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Butler shows hundreds of employees the door after raising $50M for room service delivery

TechCrunch

New York-based Butler was founded in 2016 as a “ghost kitchen” operator with a simple business model. According to a Forbes profile, he opened his first restaurant in New York City at the age of 19 — located inside a “big-box” hotel. On-demand delivery.

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An Unconventional 3-Step Plan To Save the Oceans

Saleforce Nonprofit

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.

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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

DonorsChoose in New York City got off to an early start through a promo code sent to previous donors on Monday. DonorsChoose might have been proactively — correctly — conservative in its goal. Pledges are tracked for a week at the Combined Federal Campaign, where the total online pledge result was $3.1

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