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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

The company has inked deals to bring its product to school districts in Louisiana, where Amira is now used by 100,000 students across 25 school districts, as well as Mississippi and Iowa. Early studies have already captured its impact in other states: In Utah, students who used Amira for just 30 minutes a week saw the equivalent of 1.5

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Here’s what the Fearless Fund lawsuit could mean for venture

TechCrunch

Gregory Shill, a professor of law at the University of Iowa who teaches a class on the Civil Rights Act as part of his Contracts class, told TechCrunch+ that a victory by Blum and the American Alliance for Equal Rights would stop many of the efforts designed to address the current disparities within venture capital.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

Lisa Humenik has a master’s degree in public administration with a concentration in nonprofit leadership and has been a member of the faculty for the nonprofit management certificate program at Iowa State University Extension and for the volunteer management certificate program at the Union Institute in Cincinnati. Like this article?

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In her spare time, Suzanne teaches wakesurf lessons on the lake and is a new mom to a little baby boy! 11) Lucas Hunt Lucas Hunt (huntauctioneers.com) is the president of HUNT Philanthropy and a celebrated American poet, whose published books include IOWA, HAMPTONS, and NEW YORK.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Learnsoft bags first external financing to expand its corporate upskilling platform

TechCrunch

In the corporate sector, upskilling (teaching employees additional skills) and reskilling (training employees on an entirely different set of skills in preparation for a new role) are being prioritized across whole organizations, with much of the interest driven by various pandemic-fueled resignations and a desperate need to retain top talent.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

There's a study done in Iowa. That's the one big thing that's going on right now, and the other is that we're designing additional search and alert tools so that you only need to get the emails that come in the category you're interested in, like kids' stuff, or teaching supplies or building supplies.