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Captain’s contractor lending tool aims to speed up home repairs after natural disasters

TechCrunch

Repairing a home that’s been destroyed in a hurricane, tornado, flood or fire can take quite a while, displacing homeowners during that time. Captain founder and CEO Demetrius Gray noted that following storms, like the Katrina and Sandy hurricanes, the average primary recovery period was 14 months.

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AmFund’s Best and Worst Dates for Special Event Fundraising

DipJar

It means that there is a lot of local competition that you need to be aware of at all times when you are picking out your event dates. You don’t want to end up competing with another local event on the same exact evening. And don’t forget about hurricane season! Next year especially, the stars alight for soccer fans.

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Radical Collaboration is Our Best Chance to Fight Climate Change

Saleforce Nonprofit

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. The Cumberland Forest Project protects 253,000 acres of Appalachian forest in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia and is one of The Nature Conservancy’s largest-ever conservation efforts in the eastern United States.

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In Appalachia’s flood-ravaged areas, residents look to rebuild on higher ground

Fast Company Tech

Over the course of a few days, residents in eastern Kentucky watched as river levels rose and surpassed flood levels. Historic floods wiped out businesses and homes in eastern Kentucky in February 2021, July 2022 and now February 2025. This reality was rarely acknowledged by local and state governments.