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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

The NonProfit Times

MacKenzie Scott, who in the past few years has given away more than $17 billion, has provided $65 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in New York City. It will advance LISC’s plans to connect underserved communities to the emerging green economy. She is back at it. The LISC gift was not a solo.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2010 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Green Gifts by the Natural Resources Defense Council: From Green Energy Boosts to Buffalo Babysitting gifts, the NRDC has a launched a new Green Gifts Online Catalog featuring over 40 gifts that help protect the environment and wildlife. Purchase Green Gifts ]. Shop PBS ].

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NCAA March Madness 2025 livestream: How to watch the men’s and women’s First Four games

Fast Company Tech

Now that the last pint of green beer has been poured, its time to move on to the next reason to celebrate March: college basketball. The National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) annual single-elimination tournament , more commonly known as March Madness, kicked things off over the weekend with Selection Sunday.

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Ecosia has started ploughing search ads profit into green energy

TechCrunch

To be clear, Ecosia is also continuing to fund tree-planting with search ads profits (an activity it’s best known for) — but the Berlin-based search engine told us it’s now making an “ongoing commitment” to green energy investment as a result of the energy crunch triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. .

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Amazon’s Fire TV is adding local news in many more cities

The Verge

At that time, the app offered local news coverage in 12 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, and more. But today, Amazon says it’s expanding local news to “88 major cities” across the US, “including popular local stations from news distributors such as ABC Owned Television Stations, CBSN, TEGNA, Cox, The E.W.

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Apple will reportedly scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery

The Verge

neuralMatch, which was trained using 200,000 images from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, will roll out first in the US. John Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green raised concerns about the system on Twitter Wednesday night. The system will be used first in the US.

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A national alert test buzzed US TVs, radios, and any phones that opted-in at 2:20PM ET

The Verge

According to this document (PDF) from the FCC, on Android phones, there should be a Wireless Emergency Alerts section in your settings menu with an option for “State/Local Test alerts” that you can turn on or off. To turn it on: Enter *5005*25371# and tap the green phone icon. You’ll get an alert that says “Test alerts enabled.”.