Remove Network Remove Nonprofit Remove Small Business Remove Social
article thumbnail

Howard Schultz funding online learning program for small businesses using CreativeLive platform

GeekWire

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is launching a free online learning program designed to help small businesses gain the necessary skills to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes are many: the need for learning and community, the lack of capital and social networks, the systemic failures that lead many to not even try.

article thumbnail

Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

There are a range of organizations that are providing activists with bail bonds and legal help, or that are helping small businesses and other community resources that have been adversely affected. National Bail Fund Network. You can also donate directly to the Network. What follows is only a limited list.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

To fight the pandemic, a Brooklyn restaurant turned to tacos

The Verge

Their 30-year-old son, Jonathan, attends the clientele and runs the social media accounts. For two months, however, the family-run business had to close down due to the pandemic. We’re a very small business, and unfortunately small businesses had very little help.”. “It We are still surviving.

article thumbnail

Leaked internal memo reveals Amazon’s anti-union strategies

Vox

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told Recode in July that his union is intent on “disrupting [Amazon’s] network until they get to a point where they surrender” and stop resisting workers’ unionization efforts. Workers in its warehouse network often don’t last long enough in their jobs to truly achieve stability through those roles.

Strategy 100
article thumbnail

How this Future For Us co-founder landed a grant from Serena Williams, and what?s happening next

GeekWire

Your preferred social network? How do you use it for business/work? LinkedIn — you have access to so many business leaders, content and resources at your fingertips. I think most millennials my age (I’m 29) have not fully leveraged the power of this social media platform.

Meeting 135
article thumbnail

10 Top Ways: Building an Effective Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign

SecureWorld News

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. I can go into my [saved] folders, and find our folder on social engineering.

Survey 81
article thumbnail

GeekWire Gift Guide: Tech leaders share ideas for gadgets, services, charity and more

GeekWire

And outside of that, if you aren’t able to shop small this year and shop on Amazon, be sure to double-check that you’re using smile.amazon.com so that a great social impact organization gets at least a piece of every gift you give.” It’s a donation to a nonprofit or charity that the gift recipient has a connection with.

Course 116