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Can B2B CMOs Save The Planet Too?

Forrester IT

Patagonia made headlines recently when founder Yvon Chouinard transferred ownership of the company to its nonprofit, Holdfast Collective, and its trust, Patagonia Purpose Trust, as a commitment to living its purpose to “save our home planet.”

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How business intelligence transformed care and efficiency at a Dutch special-needs nonprofit

CIO Business Intelligence

What it required was a solution that embraced data management and big-data trends to better streamline personalised management and client service for disabled adults needing residential, occupational, recreational, and other services such as community building and helping clients find meaningful employment.

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Two climate investors on the hot technologies, market trends and the urgency to act

GeekWire

Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit that has invested in more than 150 climate startups. For Elemental, as a nonprofit investor, we see that private, government and philanthropic funds have to coalesce to establish the foundation for technology innovation and achieve tangible outcomes. How do you approach those areas?

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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

Vox

Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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Microsoft is selling an ugly MS Paint sweater and part of the proceeds benefit Girls Who Code

The Verge

Since MS Paint comes installed on Windows rather than being sold separately, it’s hard to know how exactly this year’s sweater will come packaged, but here’s hoping Microsoft’s goofy trend continues. Microsoft says it plans to donate a minimum $50,000 to the nonprofit from this promotion. Bill Gates wearing a sweater, as he often does.

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Seattle marijuana startup Leafly raises $23M as recent legalization boosts cannabis market

GeekWire

Leslie, a former Amazon exec who was Leafly’s CEO for less than two years, is now a founder of a farming nonprofit called Living Roots. Leafly said marijuana legalization trends are accelerating the cannabis market. Leafly spun out of Seattle marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings in 2019. Americans spent about $18.3

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15 worthwhile conferences for women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The Grace Hopper Celebration is a conference that spans several topic areas, including technology, culture, career transitions, working in the C-suite, emerging and trending technologies, and new workplace trends in the tech industry. Ambareen Siraj of Tennessee Tech University through a National Science Foundation grant.