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Supporting nonpartisan voter engagement to build a more inclusive democracy 

Candid

Unlike campaigns, nonprofits doing nonpartisan voter engagement are driven by a fundamentally different goal: to ensure the members of the communities they work in and with have a say in the policies that impact their lives, regardless of voting history. And the data shows it’s effective.

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Robinhood’s IPO roadshow answered questions I wasn’t asking

The Verge

He is now a lecturer at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.) They don’t have the best internal controls,” Erickson says in an interview, pointing to Robinhood’s history of outages. For a company supposed to be in the business of keeping your money secure, they aren’t necessarily doing a good job of that.”.

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Vara raises $4.8M from investors like Go Ventures and Sequoia India’s Surge to digitize Indonesian SMEs’ payrolls

TechCrunch

Founded by Vidush Mahansaria and Abhinav Karale, who met while studying at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Vara is part of the Surge accelerator program’s fifth cohort of startups. The company announced today it has raised $4.8 It says more than 100,000 small businesses are already using Bukugaji.

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Backed by the National Institute on Aging, the a2 Pilot Awards fosters age tech entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

There are now more Americans aged 65 and older than at any other point in history, and that number is expected to rise, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The AITCs are housed at John Hopkins University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Pennsylvania.

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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

Candid

In 1837 Richard Humphreys established the African Institute, now Cheyney University, in Pennsylvania making it the oldest historically Black university in the United States. Not only did I have the good fortune to receive a world-class education, but my learning was steeped in the history and lived experience of Black people.

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Amazon retaliated against climate organizers, labor board finds

The Verge

We are on the right side of history and the right side of the law”. It’s a moral victory,” Cunningham told the Times, “and really shows that we are on the right side of history and the right side of the law.”. Six Pennsylvania warehouse workers are also pursuing a retaliation case against the company in federal court.

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Tesorio’s tools aim to help businesses automate payments collection

TechCrunch

.” Tesorio attempts to capture this knowledge using AI models that look across a customer’s payment history and predict when, exactly, they’ll pay. Vega co-launched the company in 2015 with Fabio Fleitas, who he met while studying business at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.