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Amazon’s book sale crashes Independent Bookstore Day—and readers are pushing back

Fast Company Tech

Independent Bookstore Day , a nationwide celebration of indie bookstores, invites readers to shop locally and support the spaces that keep storytelling vibrant. Independent Bookstore Day began as California Bookstore Day in 2013, as a take on Record Store Day, according to Samantha Schoech in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind

Fast Company Tech

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. In the Los Angeles area, those risks are now impossible to ignore. Many working-class families lost their homes , businesses, and jobs.

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Remote-controlled delivery carts are now working for the local Los Angeles grocer

TechCrunch

Robots are no longer the high-tech tools reserved for university labs, e-commerce giants and buzzy Silicon Valley startups. The local grocer now has access too. The companies have launched the product offering in Los Angeles with three customers. But it has the makings of expanding far beyond Los Angeles.

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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Los Angeles-based Lorcan OHerlihy Architects , for instance, has advanced the concept of shipping container architecture, ushering it into the realm of sustainable neighborhood development. The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.)

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

In 2013, she cofounded Coucou French Classes, which provides in-person classes in New York and Los Angeles. For now, the team has licensed more than 60 short films by local filmmakers. Originally from Toulouse, France, Perret moved to New York 17 years ago and has been teaching French in the U.S. since then.

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6 Strategies to Involve Young People in Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

So, connect with local high schools, colleges, universities, and clubs. An example of this is NKLA, an animal rescue in Los Angeles. This is important to younger generations and probably everyone else your org interacts with.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

For a steady and reliable collaboration among nonprofit relationships, Geofunders suggests that, “Staff and Board should study local ecosystems to see who is doing what and where there are opportunities for aligned actions.”. Karyn is a Chicago native but has called Los Angeles home since hair bands ruled The Sunset Strip.