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‘Everything was lost’: How climate change is threatening Colombia’s largest indigenous group

Fast Company Tech

She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning Colombia and Venezuela, also reside. “This entire hut. Our belongings, what little we had.

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

The key point is that in places where the pro-democracy movements are strong and America’s well-established partnerships are challenged by actors like Russia, as in Georgia, maintaining a high level of support in backing democratic aspirations of nations can tip the balance in Georgia.” The issues are far from isolated.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

In France, eight types of foundations are registered across multiple national registries. It combines government data, public information, and other reliable records to give the most comprehensive virtual map of nonprofits from Afghanistan to Venezuela.

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Fintech Roundup: Founders reinventing, startups buying and pre-seed a’growing

TechCrunch

Column is] a nationally chartered bank but have built every facet of the technology from scratch,” Hockey told TechCrunch in an email interview. “We To rephrase, Hockey has founded a bank called Column. We are both the bank and the technology provider.”. Moving on to Europe.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

There is a national network called Nonprofitcenters.org , that is a national network that, actually, I am happy to say was started by China Brodsky, who is on my Board of Directors, she's great, which is a network of these nonprofit-owned buildings which brought together a group of nonprofits to own their own building.

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How Trump calculated the new tariff rates and why they differ by country

Fast Company Tech

It has set even higher levies for about 60 nations that it says are the worst” offenders. To determine how much higher those nations’ rates should be, the White House says it calculated the size of each countrys trade imbalance on goods with the United States and divided that by how much America imports from that nation.

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Trump wants to ramp up deportations. So why is he firing all these immigration judges?

Fast Company Tech

When the administration sent federal employees its Fork in the Road email calling for voluntary resignations, it was supposed to exclude people who worked in immigration enforcement and national defense and for the Postal Service, according to the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. By bus, the family responded.