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How This Nonprofit Increased Donations After Switching to Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

We uphold our vision by providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues that are important to the community, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws. The PFLAG network consists of more than 400 chapters, which crosses nearly all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

TechCrunch

Sebastián Vidal is the chief innovation officer at Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and former executive director at parallel18. In response, governments should push bilingual policies in both schools and businesses, offering greater funding and hiring support for courses like English for IT professionals.

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How digital health startups are navigating the post-Roe legal landscape

TechCrunch

Now, as state laws shift and abortion bans go into effect across the United States, companies are still trying to find ways to provide care while reimagining what healthcare should include. Nationally, the situation is proving tricky to navigate as each state can begin implementing individualized abortion laws.

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The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility

TechCrunch

Embark conducted a public demo to show how its autonomous trucks would interact with emergency vehicles and law enforcement in Texas. . Lamborghini wants to wait and see what kinds of policies the European Union will enforce on ICE vehicles before deciding to go all in on EVs. .

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Democrats have a new plan to legalize marijuana federally

The Verge

Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a discussion draft of legislation that proposes sweeping reform to marijuana policy in the US. Medicinal marijuana is even more widespread, legal in 37 states, Puerto Rico, D.C., Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. On Wednesday, Sens.

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‘An American hero’: Meet the federal worker who is standing up to Elon Musk’s DOGE

Fast Company Tech

workplace antidiscrimination laws that has undergone tumultuous change since President Donald Trump took office. ” In it, Ortiz questioned Lucas’s fitness to serve as acting chair, “much less hold a license to practice law.” “I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.

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DOGE’s IRS layoffs will trigger a ‘feast for tax evaders’, experts say

Fast Company Tech

Vanessa Williamson, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said on a Thursday call with reporters that the layoffs at the IRS will disproportionately harm enforcement efforts. ” The union representing IRS workers has already filed multiple legal challenges over the administration’s mass layoffs. .”