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Visionlink’s Volunteer Registry Deployed for Hurricanes Harvey & Irma

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High-level government officials have directed these generous people to National VOAD and their member agencies. We are honored that Visionlink, as a corporate partner, has been able to open access to the unaffiliated volunteer system to National VOAD and Volunteer Florida member organizations.

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16 Million 2-1-1 Calls in 2009

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2-1-1 Background 2-1-1 is available to over 240 million Americans – approximately 80% of the United States population –covering all or parts of 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. “2-1-1” 2-1-1 is an easy to remember phone number that connects individuals with resources in their community. With approximately 1.5

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4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

TechCrunch

Sebastián Vidal is the chief innovation officer at Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and former executive director at parallel18. In response, governments should push bilingual policies in both schools and businesses, offering greater funding and hiring support for courses like English for IT professionals.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

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RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. Co-founder Will Schumaker says this is a commercialization of a FEL (free-electron laser) project he worked on at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Lab. Firecell: Helps enterprises build private 4G/5G networks.

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Win a Trip to the Obama Inauguration with Your Commitment to Change

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Do any of them involve serving your neighborhood, your community, or even your nation? If you win, you get: two tickets to the Inaugural Ceremony & the Hawaii Inaugural Ball three-nights hotel stay airfare for you and a guest to the Nation’s Capitol a Flip video camera The last day to apply is 3pm EST on January 12, 2009.

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The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility

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India is finalizing its national battery swap program for two- and three-wheeled EVs. . River has the potential to be a leader in the Indian market, given the government’s plans to push EV sales penetration of two-wheelers up to 80% by 2030. In other news…. Electric moped growth is predicted to double in Asia. . Rebecca Bellan.

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NOAA is vital for coastal state economies

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Thats why the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the federal agency best known for collecting and analyzing the data that make weather forecasts and warnings possible leads most of the governments work on ocean and coastal health, as well as research into the growing risks posed by climate change.