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Foundations step up funding to bolster trust in local news 

Candid

Among the funders for its first local chapter, Press Forward Chicago , were the Democracy Fund and the Chicago Community Trust, demonstrating the intersectional nature of local news funding. In Sacramento, California, the James B. million to 44 POC-led and -serving organizations.

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#AI4Good: Artificial Intelligence & Wellbeing, Ethical Dilemmas, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human , has been serializing chapters from his book on Medium. The Key to Successful A.I.?

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A new chapter.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The other day a friend dropped by the office to talk to us about how we manage chapters in our software. For example, he wondered if we assumed that the national organization did the dues billing, and distributed revenue to the chapters? Or the reverse: that chapters collect the dues and send it upstream to headquarters?

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What we know about MacKenzie Scott’s 2020 grants

Candid

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. Her giving was also defined by trust, with grants structured as general operating support, thus handing power from the grantor to the grantee.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

.orgSource

While some businesses are writing their final pandemic chapter, the healthcare and restaurant industries continue to feel the aftershocks of seismic disruption. Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week. Our plan isn’t perfect. But it makes sense for our team.”

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When Women Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Learnings From When Women Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.