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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. Nonprofits need support to engage in activities that influence disaster-related policies. Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy ? In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Addressing Maternity Care Deserts: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Cherot

Non Profit Quarterly

That work helps inform research and policy. “We’re watching hospitals close across the country and patients having to really navigate how to get to providers.” It measures our infant mortality in addition to the social drivers of health, C-section births, and inadequate prenatal care. The March of Dimes educates.

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6 Trends Shaping Corporate Engagement Today

Connection Cafe

And we all witnessed the role that tech innovators like Tesla played in reconnecting Puerto Rico. Leadership from the top is one of the key markers of strong community-minded companies that Points of Light measures in our annual Civic 50 survey.

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

TechCrunch

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. . census data to help prioritize and measure how effective roadway safety projects are and what their impact on communities is. .

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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

Like millions of other federal employees, Ortiz opened an ominous email on January 28 titled “Fork in the Road” giving them the option to resign from their positions as part of the government’s cost-cutting measures directed by Trump and carried out by DOGE under Musk, an unelected official.

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

The Verge

Instead, by several measures, the situation for ByteDance’s popular video app got significantly worse. Jackson said the app uses some technical measures to encode its activity, meaning some of it is hidden from independent researchers looking under the covers. “In Their policies and rules are best understood as attempts at automation.

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