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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

District Court Southern District of Florida – Miami Division. The American Red Cross has spent and distributed all funds designated for Haiti relief on shelter, emergency relief, health, cholera prevention, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness,” the statement continued. The papers were filed in the U.S.

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This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

TechCrunch

But this month, Homebound will be expanding to Austin, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. This is just the start,” Pechet said.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon starts delivering layoff notices to thousands of employees

TechCrunch

Several of our TechCrunch colleagues headed to Miami today for the TC Sessions: Crypto event tomorrow. Crypto news that isn’t sad : Matter Labs banked $200 million to scale Ethereum and solve the pesky issue of gas fees. As if you didn’t already suspect… : Elon Musk is somewhat of a disaster artist. PDT, subscribe here.

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Inside the ‘slow-rolling catastrophe’ of Trump’s NOAA cuts

Fast Company Tech

Mass layoffs struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) late last week , throwing into jeopardy the core mission of the agency tasked with observing the skies and seas nationwideand a key piece of the federal disaster preparedness apparatus. In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm presenting and doing a workshop in Romania and then will be flying back to Boston via Miami to present at the Technology Affinity Group (Foundation IT folks) Conference. I learned a thing or two about the importance of basic infrastructure and processes - I'm my own IT department so I have a disaster plan.

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Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

The year started with atypically high inflation rates and featured several significant weather-related disasters, ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and an acrimoniously contested, highly polarizing and wildly expensive election season. People giving to natural disasters this fall is a bigger concern than election giving.”

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump had tweeted — quoting a former Miami police chief who, in 1967, called for a violent crackdown on the city’s black community. State-based contact tracing apps could be a disaster. With no national plan for these apps, security and interoperability issues loom large.

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