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  • How to Use Free Satellite Data to Monitor Natural Disasters and Environmental Changes

    The Conversation Mar 14, 2023

    Time-lapse animations that once took days to create are now easy to build with publicly available satellite images and free online tools.

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  • How the Great Resignation Impacted Nonprofit Organizations

    Blue Avocado Mar 13, 2023

    To understand how resignation trends impacted nonprofits, look below the headline figures to understand employee motivations.

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  • Goods Donated to Disaster Victims Can Be Useless – Or Even Harmful

    Disaster Relief and Recovery Magazine Mar 13, 2023

    The first time I understood quite how bad emergency relief can be was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004. From the dockside, first responders fed back stories…

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  • Some States Are Pushing to Bring Back Child Labor

    Inequality.org Mar 13, 2023

    Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.

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  • Pursuing Health Equity Solutions for Americans

    Philanthropy News Digest Mar 12, 2023

    Racial inequities and health disparities continue to profoundly affect the lives and futures of tens of millions of Americans every day. Societal fault lines based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status,…

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  • Supporting Youth-led Indigenous Solutions to Environmental Issues

    The Aspen Institute Mar 12, 2023

    Shondiin Mayo is originally from Stevens Village, Alaska, and grew up in both Fairbanks and the Navajo Nation. She is Diné (Navajo) and Tleeyegge Hut’aane and is of the Bitterwater Clan…

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  • Climate Change is Making California Forests Vulnerable

    EcoWatch Mar 12, 2023

    Two new studies highlight the vulnerability of California forests. Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, has heated the atmosphere faster than conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains can adapt, shifting their ideal elevation 600 feet above where it…

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  • The Gender Pay Gap for Women Health and Care Workers

    Global Citizen Mar 11, 2023

    The majority of women in the workforce earn less than men for performing the same work — and a new report found that for health and care workers, the discrepancy…

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  • Paid Sick Leave Policy Can Help Increase Cancer Screenings

    Futurity Mar 11, 2023

    More people in the US get cancer screening when employers are mandated to provide paid sick leave, research finds.

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  • Educator Turnover After Last Year is Higher Than Prior Years

    Chalkbeat Mar 8, 2023

    More educators have quit their jobs as teacher turnover spikes across U.S., confirming fears that COVID stresses would hurt teacher retention.

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  • Lessons from a Historic Win for Service Worker Pay

    Fund the People Mar 8, 2023

    READ THE TRANSCRIPT This episode offers an incredible story – and perhaps a bold new model for increasing investments in America’s nonprofit workforce.You’ll learn how a group of nonprofits showed elected leaders the essential value of the nonprofit human services workforce, and broke through malaise…

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  • Improving the Zero-waste Shopping Experience

    TreeHugger Mar 8, 2023

    The fact is that, just like everyone else, I get lazy. Despite knowing the facts about plastic pollution and having every intention to shake the single-use habit, even I get…

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