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3-day outbreak of severe weather leaves hundreds displaced in U.S. South and Midwest

Fast Company Tech

While conditions over the weekend allowed crews to get a handle on most wildfires across Texas and Oklahoma, forecasters at the National Weather Service said extremely critical fire weather conditions were expected Tuesday over an area spanning from southeastern New Mexico through the Texas Panhandle and into western Oklahoma.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I am in Louisville, KY, this week, at the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind. Other Benetech staff are here and at the Las Vegas convention of the American Council of the Blind. The highlight this week was our Bookshare.org user group meeting.

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Demystifying Donor Advised Funds

Top Nonprofits

His leadership was recognized locally and nationally, and honored with awards from the Better Business Bureau for Ethics and the Louisville Urban League for championing diversity. He is an accomplished nonprofit CEO, having previously led the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Share This Post!

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Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

National Bail Fund Network. According to the website: “The Community Justice Exchange is a national hub for developing, sharing, and experimenting with tactical interventions, strategic organizing practices, and innovative organizing tools to end mass incarceration.” National Lawyers Guild. Bail and legal funds.

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Demystifying Donor Advised Funds

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His leadership was recognized locally and nationally, and honored with awards from the Better Business Bureau for Ethics and the Louisville Urban League for championing diversity. He is an accomplished nonprofit CEO, having previously led the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Share This Post!

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

The result was a reduction in our readmission rates to one of the best in the country and we have been invited to present this work at national cardiology conferences. We founded the organization just eight months ago and are already accepting applications for our inaugural summer program which will be held in Louisville and Washington DC.

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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

An HBCU Midnight Brunch during Juneteenth weekend at the Roots 101: African American Museum , a nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky, exemplifies this fusion of the past and what is to come. Looking to the future. HBCUs are also about the future.

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