The city of San Francisco was decommissioning a part of their bus fleet. It’s the type of news blurb that most of us greet with nostalgia. Oh sad, I’ll miss those old buses. But for Doniece Sandoval, it was a golden opportunity for social change. She contacted the city to ask what would happen to the buses. She learned of a donation program, acquired one, and Lave Mae was born.
I caught a news story about a great non-profit called Dawson Place in Everett, WA that I needed to share. Something pretty historic will be forever tied to this worthy organization: They were the first non-profit to benefit from Amazon’s Local Love program.
So what is Local Love, exactly?
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It sounds like a movie. You’re the receptionist at a non-profit serving children in need. (In my film, perhaps the evil gas company rep has just come to turn off the heat and he laughs on his way out the door…) Suddenly, the phone rings. There’s a person on the other line asking you to check under the statue of Baby Jesus.
Are you looking for a daily reminder to kick butt? Do you have a team around you looking for the same? Well, you’re in luck, surfer of the interwebs. Because we LOVE to make motivational wristbands.
In the hopes of avoiding a robot apocalypse (or with a less dramatic take, in the hopes of ensuring humans get the most from AI), Tesla founder Elon Musk and company have started OpenAI, a non-profit that plans on open sourcing artificial intelligence. Instead of creating AI to make money for shareholders, their goal will be to maximize AI’s enormous potential for all of humanity, profits be damned.