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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & Pledges are tracked for a week at the Combined Federal Campaign, where the total online pledge result was $3.1

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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

The mayor of Denmark capital Copenhagen went so far as to propose a ban on diesel cars in the city last year that would go into effect by the end of 2019; Copenhagen has since tempered its proposal to aim for net-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality by 2025. Granted, the legislation for actually mandating the bans lags far behind.)

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

We have identified 208 pledges and grants for Ukraine relief. This includes 34 pledges worth $241,773,200 and 174 grants worth $343,561,933 as of March 8. The United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan account for 91% of total grant funding for Ukraine to date. Pledges by funder type.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

Candid

We have identified 540 grants worth $667,728,963 and 122 pledges worth $653,512,350 as of April 1. Candid continues to track the global philanthropic response to the crisis. Here we share an update on what we know so far. Overview of findings. Care and protection of children account for 26% of grant dollars. $110,376,038. Switzerland.

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COP16 talks on biodiversity resume in Rome. Here’s what’s at the top of the agenda

Fast Company Tech

That is, how to spend what’s been pledged so farand how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth. An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda.

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Can saving trees really turn bitcoin green?

TechCrunch

Bitso, a Mexico City-based crypto exchange, is pledging to buy carbon offsets for every bitcoin transaction on its platform to compensate for the cryptocurrency’s environmental toll.

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

18 European countries have already signed a non-binding pledge saying that they plan to contribute to this EIF’s fund of funds — Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

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