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New York metro transit systems add on-demand sign language interpreters

Engadget

Its a classic New York experience. For many New Yorkers, hardened over years of bad weather, prevalent trash and cohabitation with rats, this is just another recurring event thats made less nerve-wracking by experience. Youre riding the subway to work, and suddenly the train stops.

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Coming to a Public School Near You: Hopefully, You as a Volunteer

Have Fun - Do Good

I found out that the kindergartner I'll be working with likes pizza, the color green, pirates, sports and dinosaurs. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

Our near-term goal is to enroll at least 200 organizations by the end of 2020, collectively pledging to involve one million new people in their work. Eventually, we may build a certification program, like LEED for green buildings, or B Corps for social enterprise.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

The New York Women’s Foundation. Green Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

The New York Women’s Foundation. Green Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, the Drivers Cooperative in New York started in an educational classroom among Uber and Lyft drivers, after workers became tired of paying high commission fees to these platform companies while also being required to pay for their own job expenses such as insurance and repairs. Today, it has over 5,000 members.

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Whats new to streaming this week? (March 7, 2025)

Mashable Tech

To stop her, this green grouch will have to team up with Bikini Bottom's best fry cook and his friends to save the day. But as his enemy Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) rises to power as New York City's new mayor, how long will it be until Matt returns to the vigilante life? What could go wrong?!

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