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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board. They become familiar with the map, which is our change model.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist? Their children are three times as likely to grow up in poverty and stay poor throughout their lifetimes.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Parthean cares about personal finance so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

Third, and finally, he thinks that strong business incentives and for-profit businesses specifically are the most sustainable way to make impact last — not nonprofits or government organizations. A simple learning flow for Parthean consists of a trigger, recommendation and outcome.

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How European startups are aiding Ukrainian refugees

TechCrunch

We are well connected with the mayor whose team knows how and where to help as situation changes from minute to minute.”. Sennder , a platform that connects large commercial shippers with small freight carriers, teamed up with other startups to collect donations in Berlin and drive them to the Ukrainian border. Supplies on the ground.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

” Far from the desertion of tedious tasks or monotonous busywork, this means giving team members control and independence, and constantly cleaning the edges of my own plate that, almost by definition of the role, will constantly overflow. So often dissonance, disappointment, or disaster is a result of poor communications.

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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.