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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging

Tech Soup

Expert guests include: Jody Dilday ( @jdilday ), executive director of Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas ( @SPSFNWA ), has spent her career raising awareness and support for nonprofit organizations. RSVP to join the live show.

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Vista Equity to acquire majority stake in SaaS startup Drift, taking it to unicorn status

TechCrunch

Cancel’s parents emigrated from Puerto Rico and Cuba while Torres emigrated from Nicaragua in his teens. “I The nearly 600-person company still has its sights on going public, according to Cancel, and believes that by working with Vista, it will have a “clearer path” to do so. It’s something we think about a lot,” he told TechCrunch.

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How romance scams are thriving during quarantine

The Verge

He was a successful businessman who worked in solar energy, drove a Mercedes, and had two houses — one in Cuba and another in the US. Later, he began laying the groundwork for the financial fraud, which involved a joint business venture in Cuba. He was wealthy and promised he would take care of her. It can happen to anyone.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. In exchange for welfare benefits, welfare recipients in San Francisco were forced to do public sector work, work which was once performed by unionized city employees.

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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

He reported on current broadband adoption and made a case for the need to develop private-public partnerships to close the "digital divide." Many that see the free market system as leveling the economic playing field might argue against public loans or grants to small businesses. He also teaches classes on podcasting and social media.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. As part of the prize notification, the winning individual or group will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release, and a publicity release (where legal). Embargo Countries").

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