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Bookshare en Puerto Rico

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I am lucky to be able to contribute this passion to Benetech by providing outreach and membership support in Spanish to the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Why shouldn’t students in Puerto Rico benefit from our technology and services? My most notable feeling from this experience was that of respect for teachers.

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Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon company

The Verge

Loon has also provided internet services to areas affected by natural disasters, deploying balloons to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017 and to Peru following an earthquake in 2019. Teller says that Loon is working to place employees in other roles at X, Google, and Alphabet. “A

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

and Puerto Rico. ii Within that group, 22 serve African Americans ; 14 serve Asians and Pacific Islanders ; 12 serve Hispanics and Latinos ; and 12 serve Native Americans. . Geography . Scott’s grants were again oriented to recipients in the United States, with grantees located across 28 states as well as D.C.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. And it worked really well in Puerto Rico - we’ve served over 3.6 We're currently active in 10 different countries. million meals!

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

as they have to the recent hurricanes in Puerto Rico + the Caribbean ($4.6M This cohort was more successful than any other group in GlobalGiving history. There isn’t a decline over time in disaster donation totals from the past two months. Donors have given about equal amounts to Hurricane Harvey ($4.0M since Aug.) since Sept.).

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Putting this best practice into action, in 2019—two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico—the Amgen Foundation awarded $257,500 to the University of Puerto Rico for rebuilding efforts. . But recovery can take years, and strategic disaster philanthropy requires taking the long view. .

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From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M to build a protocol that helps open source developers get paid

TechCrunch

The duo formally founded Tea out of Puerto Rico last November, with the company emerging from stealth in March backed by $8 million in funding from notable backers including the venture capital arm of crypto giant Binance. Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9