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Embracing rapid change: Trends shaping the nonprofit sector in 2025

Candid

It then provides teachers and parents with a customized learning plan, focused on ensuring students get the appropriate support for their needs. After a child reads to the AI friend for just a few minutes, the tool can offer rapid diagnosis that spots areas in need of further growth.

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Low-carbon concrete is at a tipping point

Fast Company Tech

When workers repaved part of Interstate 94 near Minneapolis last fall, it looked like they were pouring ordinary concrete. This is cost-competitive, says C-Crete CEO Rouzbeh Savary, who began working on a more sustainable cement alternative as a PhD student at MIT.

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Best Buy investing millions in Brown Venture Group, a firm exclusively backing BIPOC founders

TechCrunch

This means that Minneapolis-based Best Buy’s pledge to invest “up to $10 million” could represent as much as 20% of the total capital raised, making it a lead LP in the fund. Brown Venture Group is in the process of fundraising for its targeted inaugural $50 million fund , 75% of which has been committed, according to its principals.

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10 Support, Implementation, and Adoption Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

Volunteer Hub

“I really love how the VolunteerHub team listens to customer suggestions and is consistently adding valuable features and capabilities to the software that can help organizations, like ours, take our volunteer program to the next level,” said Tosheena Thompson, Volunteer Manager for Students Association of MacEwan University. “We

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Suma Brands raises $150M to acquire more third-party brands for its Amazon roll-up play

TechCrunch

In the case of Minneapolis-based Suma, the startup is being led by co-founder Andrew Savage, who has a very interesting insight into the world of retail, and specifically online retail, by way of his background. Prior to that, he also worked for years at Target — where he was instrumental in building Target.com — and Best Buy.

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Using data to enact lasting, systemic police and justice reforms

Tableau

Last year, the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis set into motion a long overdue public reckoning on race, policing, and equity across the country. SB 5401 allows community colleges to award computer science degrees, opening up the field to more people, including lower-income and underrepresented minority students.

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Some Shipt workers report seeing lower pay under new effort-based model

The Verge

The Coworker.org team worked with PhD student Dan Calacci at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to analyze the information it had collected and found that the workers who reported lower wages were making 11 percent less than they did under the previous pay structure.

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