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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

In 2018, Uber explored providing cash incentives to some North America-based drivers who switch to electric vehicles, but it never expanded the program beyond the original pilot phase. Uber isn’t the first transportation company to pledge to shift to electric vehicles.

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Rivian raises another $2.5B, pushing its EV war chest up to $10.5B

TechCrunch

billion private funding round led by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Ford Motor and funds and accounts advised by T. “As we near the start of vehicle production, it’s vital that we keep looking forward and pushing through to Rivian’s next phase of growth,” Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement.

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10 Essential Tips To Determine The Right Donation Solicitation Amount

Bloomerang

This is the crucial phase we call cultivation in which the objective is to forge a personal and emotional bond between the donor and nonprofit. We call this phase stewardship , and nonprofits need to genuinely and profusely acknowledge and express gratitude for generosity. Larger gifts usually require multi-year pledge periods.

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7 Database Goals for Your Independent School’s Capital Campaign

sgEngage

Several organizations I’ve worked with have had Fund and Campaign records set up backward, which caused a struggle when adding multiyear pledges and producing consistent pledge reminders. This could be especially troubling in a capital campaign when an influx of new pledges quickly becomes overwhelming.

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Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths

The Verge

This immersion process has existed in the industry for a few years now, but Microsoft claims it’s “the first cloud provider that is running two-phase immersion cooling in a production environment.”. We have a whole phased approach, and our next phase is pretty soon with multiple racks.”.

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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

In addition, the Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Maui Fund pledged $100 million, GoFundMe raised $60 million, the People’s Fund of Maui (Oprah and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) raised $60 million, and Maui United Way raised about $25 million. However, this delay is important, too, for pledges do not always equal final payments.

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Irony at its finest: Kickstarter project explaining how to fund Kickstarter projects fails

The Next Web

Author Glenn Fleishman pitched his work as follows: My book, Crowdfunding: A Guide to What Works and Why, will cover planning a project, carrying it through its funding phase, and fulfilling goals by offering a combination of case studies of successful (and unsuccessful) projects and detailed, specific guidance on each phase.

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