Social Impact & Philanthropy

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  Steve Jobs changed the world with the iPhone, and now his billionaire widow wants to revolutionize education by building modular schools that are customizable, strong, quick to set up, and easy to transport across the globe in shipping containers

  luxurylaunches.com - Neha Tandon Sharma

  Every small deed counts, especially when influential people take the lead. Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, has become a …

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  Michael Hartley CFP®

  

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  Tesla CEO Elon Musk borrowed customers’ new Cybertrucks to provide Starlink internet in decimated California wildfire regions

  Fortune - Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

  Tesla CEO Elon Musk borrowed customers’ Cybertrucks to provide high-speed internet via Starlink in decimated California wildfire regions Musk sent …

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  Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health

  The New York Times - By Stephanie Nolen

  In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world. Jimmy Carter’s five decades of leadership in global health brought a hideous disease to the brink of elimination, helped deliver basic health and …

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  Michael Hartley CFP®

  

  In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy

  Associated Press - By WAFAA SHURAFA and JULIA FRANKEL

  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women struggle to dress modestly while crowded into tents with extended family members, including men, and with strangers …

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  Michael Hartley CFP®

  

  U.S. homelessness reached another record high in 2024

  Axios - April Rubin

  U.S. homelessness increased 18% this year, according to federal data released on Friday, with children being the age group that experienced the …

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  Michael Hartley CFP®

  

  The Celebrity Activist Investor Is Going Extinct

  The Wall Street Journal. - Lauren Thomas

  Turns out you don’t need a tough activist reputation to spur change at companies anymore An era of big-name activists with fiery personalities waging noisy proxy battles and wielding brash tactics to win board seats is over. Carl Icahn, facing attacks on how he manages his own publicly traded firm, …