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‘It Takes a Village:’ Social Support Proves Crucial for Female and Minority Hunters

On a star-filled, late-October morning, Ada Smith and three fellow hunters zipped up their top layers of hand-me-down camouflage. The small group gathered that day on Smith’s family land in rural Montana for an outdoor sport none of them were brought up with and an event that research had lead them to create: Burnt Fork Ladies Hunting Weekend. 

Try to Please All and You Will Please None: How Segmenting Your List Can Increase Online Engagement and Charitable Giving

Have you ever used these communication strategies with your nonprofit community members?

Oregon will be the first state to make affordable health care a constitutional right

Measure 111 amends the Oregon constitution by adding: “It is the obligation of the state to ensure that every resident of Oregon has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.”

The Creator Economy is the future of the economy

The dean of studies of the creative class has analyzed the rise of the Creator Economy to reveal which cities are winning—and how we can foster a broad middle class.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Timeline for National High-Speed Internet Deployment

“The next eight weeks are critical for our federal efforts to connect the unconnected,” said Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. “The FCC’s upcoming challenge process is one of the best chances to ensure that we have accurate maps guiding us as we allocate major Internet for All awards in 2023. I urge every state and community that believes it can offer improvements to be part of this process so that we can deliver on the promise of affordable, reliable high-speed Internet service for everyone in America.”

The Top Existential Threats to Entrepreneurship

America’s inability to solve a host of basic issues isn’t just making life hard for entrepreneurs–it’s killing their potential. Here, eight founders and CEOs sound off on the stopgaps they’ve adopted to get by.

Center for Humane Technology – Together we must Align Technology with Humanity’s Best Interests

Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it?

Does your brand have a great story behind it? If so, tell it. – Montana’s ‘Tell Us Something’

Everything—faith, science, love—needs a story for people to find it plausible. No story, no sale.”

A climate reckoning for US housing: Too many homes in harm’s way, ‘too many zeros’ in the costs

With climate change bearing down, how much longer can the system hold?

Smart Cities from Emerging Technology – How many is your community considering?

We’ve written 10 stories that explore how cities and companies think tech fits into the vibrant, complex, and human world of urban life.