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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Help disseminate news releases or produce news events to get coverage. Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state.

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Apple launches limited-edition ‘Black Unity Collection’ Apple Watch

The Verge

Apple plans to curate stories focused on Black families and experiences in the Apple TV and Apple News apps and highlight Black authors in Apple Books and Apple Podcasts. Apple is among a number of tech giants that collectively pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward racial equity initiatives.

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What counts as racial equity funding?  

Candid

In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . a big push to collect this information from press releases, news sources, and funder websites? a major part of the?recent

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Forget Coffee Spoons: I Can Now Measure Out My Life With Facebook Status Updates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Disturb the universe? For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; New Feature: The Timeline. The good news is that Facebook’s new design is based on better data visualization. In a minute there is time.

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China introduces policies aimed at supporting young talent in sci-tech fields

TechNode

Beijing has issued several measures to further boost the cultivation and utilization of young scientific and technological talents, aiming to give young people prominent roles in national-level sci-tech research tasks, according to an August 27 report by state-owned Xinhua News Agency.

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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

” The news today is a welcome turn of events for a company that has been in the spotlight over the years for less rosy reasons, partly because it found it challenging to land on a profitable business model. Now it’s time to build out a sales team to go after them.”

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