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New Jersey announces $10M seed fund aimed at Black and Latinx founders

TechCrunch

Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The Black and Latinx Seed Fund will be administered by the New Economic Development Authority (NJEDA).

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A Nonprofit Partnership: How One Board Member Connected Two Organizations and Boosted Both

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Meet Natasha Piñeiros Natasha Piñeiros grew up in Ecuador and moved to New Jersey at 13 years old. She then received her graduate degree in higher education, student affairs, and international education policy. By creative, I mean it’s not just in Minnesota, it is national. Mary’s Pence is creative in funding ESPERA.

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How Amazon warehouse policies put workers at risk

The Verge

The tragic collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois during last week’s historic tornado outbreak in the Midwest is raising questions about the safety of the e-commerce giant’s packing facilities and the policies and protocols Amazon has in place to protect workers during disasters. It’s the private sector.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In addition, students who receive textbooks that originate from the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Center must meet additional requirements, most notably that they have an IEP and are covered by IDEA. What is the school signup process for Bookshare? More than half of U.S.

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Comfort vs. Action: The Internal Debate

ASU Lodestar Center

Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. Out of that anguish was born the long struggle of the birth control movement.

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Providing education for incarcerated students

M+R

We would focus on promoting research and elevating awareness about the benefits of postsecondary education in prison and the need for incarcerated people to access Pell Grants, all while trying to change state policies to provide more financial support and generate momentum for federal action. Two years in, we expanded our focus to the U.S.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Things don’t look good’: Y Combinator sends founders a 10-point survival strategy

TechCrunch

Oishii started out selling strawberries from its New Jersey facility at $50 for eight to 11 berries, and with a new facility up and running, the company is now able to reduce that to $20. That may come in Nick Clegg’s next manifesto. We’re here for it. What happens when a vertical farming company cracks the code?