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Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit and Other Stuff and built by an early Twitter staffer, launches with ~500K restored Vine videos (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/jack-dorsey-backed-vine-reboot…

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.

Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit "and Other Stuff" and built by an early Twitter employee, debuts with ~500K restored Vine videos (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/jack-dorsey-backed-…

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.

The new owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plan to recognize the paper’s labor union,
officials from the Maryland-based nonprofit Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism confirmed Thursday.
According to a statement from Andre Jones,
chief people officer at the Baltimore Banner,
-- the Venetoulis Institute’s other newspaper,
-- the nonprofit “decided to recognize the union in accordance with labor law.”
The move represents the start of a new chapter in…

New Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners plan to recognize newsroom labor union
The new owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette plan to recognize the paper’s labor union, officials from the Maryland-based nonprofit Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism confirmed.

Your reminder that all people deserve the dignity to eat, survive, and thrive. Support the World Central Kitchen. https://wck.org/

WCK
Founded by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit organization that provides fresh meals in response to crises. Founded by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit organization that provides fresh meals in response to crises.

#NowPlaying If you couldn’t make it in person, Ritmos Tropicosmos streaming live in about ten minutes on KEXP. https://kexp.org/

Make a passport a requirement to vote. Then block the issuing of new passports. Magats in action.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nonprofit-libraries-ordered-by-state-department-to-stop-processing-passport-a…

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications (Susan Haigh/Associated Press)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nonprofit-libraries-ordered-by-state-department-to-stop-processing-passport-applications
http://www.memeorandum.com/260214/p15#a260214p15

An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on April 27, accusing him of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/musk-v-altman-trial-openai-lawsuit-xai.html

Musk v. Altman heads to court next week. Here's what's at stake
The high-profile trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection.

I donated to the EFF today. They do great work to protect the rights of people in the digital age.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
https://www.

About EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's...

The Fulu Foundation, a group founded by repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann, which pays out bounties to people who can remove user-hostile features on connected devices, is now offering a potential payout of $10,000 to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require Ring devices to send data to Amazon.

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

This isn't good news.
The ArXiv has been the best — and single — holdout of truly nonprofit academic publishing, even if it's “only” a pre-print server.
This moves us away from a more dignified academic publishing system, not closer.
https://www.sc…

Pittsburgh City Paper, closed by Block Communications three months ago, is reviving under a new nonprofit, LocalMatters, with Lenfest Institute backing (Rachel McDevitt/90.5 WESA)
https://www.wesa.fm/identity-community/2026-03-19/pittsburgh-city-paper-relaunc…

It’s alive! Pittsburgh City Paper set to relaunch under new owner, start membership program
A new nonprofit, LocalMatters, has bought City Paper from Block Communications.

A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/tec…

How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?
A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.

One of Trump’s library funds has mysteriously dissolved, but a lack of transparency keeps the public in the dark • OpenSecrets https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/10/one-of-trumps-library-fun…

One of Trump’s library funds has mysteriously dissolved, but a lack of transparency keeps the public in the dark - OpenSecrets News
Florida officials have administratively dissolved a nonprofit fund connected to President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library because it failed to…

The Creators Guild of America launches Mosaic, an "IMDb for creators", in beta; creator economy workers can list their work credits and are given a Creator ID (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

“IMDb for Creators” Platform in the Works for Stars, Crew of Digital Projects (Exclusive)
The Creators Guild of America, an industry nonprofit, has created what it says is a "first of a kind" platform showcasing verified creative work on projects that aren't traditional TV or movies.

This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue - 48 hills
Nonprofit housers are good neighbors. Speculators are not. But Wiener's law treats both the same way

OpenAI plans to invest $1B in AI-related causes in 2026 via the OpenAI Foundation, and names co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to lead its AI resilience initiatives (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pittsburgh-newspaper-closure-sale-nonprofit-82fc01d982ab88ccef650364bfbb793e
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p83#a260414p83

A nonprofit's acquisition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is good news, but other options like systemic investment in the local ecosystem might have been better (Yoni Greenbaum/Backstory & Strategy)
https://www.backstoryandstrategy.com/p/pittsburgh-post-…

Pittsburgh's Paper Is Saved. Now Ask the Hard Questions
The industry called it a rescue. It may turn out to be a tax on the very ecosystem it claims to be saving.

Connecticut Jewish leaders and synagogues have signed on to a national letter denouncing new prohibitions on recipients of a federal security grant,
which would ban nonprofits — including faith-based organizations — from conducting equity or “DEI” programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.
The new language would also require such institutions to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
The letter was signed by Temple Beth El in Stamford, the Men…

CT Jewish leaders denounce new rules for federal security grants
Recipients of the nonprofit security grant will be prohibited from DEI programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.

⁉️ Hat jemand Bock, Guppe wieder aufleben zu lassen? Es muss sich jemand um Serveraufsetzen und Betrieb kümmern.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/119

Guppe(.)org registered: we will donate the domain or will try running the service if some tech folks will help us · Issue #119 · immers-space/guppe
Our nonprofit / NGO runs a very small instance at games(.)ngo. We have benefited from using gup(.)pe over the years to help us engage with other instances more effectively. It is frustrating that s...

This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Years ago, I went to Olympia to lobby on behalf of a nonprofit healthcare provider where I served on the Board. I didn't know legislators by name or districts by number back then and I just assumed from talking to him that Jamie Pedersen was a Republican.

Kamala Harris Partners With Soros-Funded Nonprofit To Rebrand Her Failed Campaign's Social Media Accounts (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/kamala-harris-partners-with-soros-funded-nonprofit-to-rebrand-her-failed-campaigns-social-media-accounts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p106#a260205p106

The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-sued-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

Bills WR Khalil Shakir's connection to heartwarming Puppy Bowl story https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47859041/buffalo-bills-khalil-shakir-puppy-bowl-xxii

CETI is a nonprofit organization
applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics
to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
Our research focus is in Dominica
in the Eastern Caribbean
https://www.projectceti.org/

Project CETI •-- Home
CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-sued-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

A look at Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, and how it helps news organizations like Deep South Today (Tandy Lau/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/putting-the-free-in-pre…

Putting the ‘free’ in press freedom
This month’s Association Profile examines how Lawyers for Reporters is stepping in to provide free legal support to local and nonprofit newsrooms navigating rising costs and legal risks. Backed by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, the program connects journalists with experienced attorneys across the country, helping protect both reporting and operations. For many outlets without in-house counsel, the service offers critical guidance — from investigative review to everyda…

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M accounts are in English (Hazel Gandhi/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/facebook-creator-monetization-indonesia/

Creators are cashing in on a “Facebook renaissance”
And Indonesian creators are leading the charge.

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews
recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s
has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s,
has posted some 20,000 recordings.

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

Baltimore Banner parent The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism acquires the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Block Communications to run it as a nonprofit (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/busines…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Saved From Closure by Nonprofit
The Venetoulis Institute of Local Journalism, which operates The Baltimore Banner, has bought The Post-Gazette. The newspaper was set to shut down next month.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to continue publishing after sale to nonprofit media group (Kris B. Mamula/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2026/04/14/post-gazette-venetoulis-institute-baltimore-banner/stories/209901010002
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p88#a260414p88

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M accounts are in English (Hazel Gandhi/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/facebook-creator-monetization-indonesia/

Creators are cashing in on a “Facebook renaissance”
And Indonesian creators are leading the charge.

A recent survey by the American Jewish Committee, a nonprofit, found that
91 percent of American Jews say they feel less safe in the United States in the wake of high-profile attacks last year,
including the arson attack at the home of Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro,
and the killing of two Israeli Embassy aides last spring outside a Jewish museum in Washington.
More than half said that they had changed their behavior out of fear.

After Synagogue Attack in Michigan, Some Jews Wonder How Much More Security Is Possible
“We are synagogues — we are houses of worship,” one rabbi said. “We are not Fort Knox.”

YC's Garry Tan launches "Garry's List", a nonprofit dedicated to supporting "moderate/pragmatic" political candidates and pro-growth policies in California (Joe Rivano Barros/Mission Local)
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-garry-t…

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence California politics
The Y Combinator CEO announced "Garry's List," a new big-money group spending and operating in races across the state.

A look at Now Voyager, a nonprofit bimonthly print magazine focused on long-form international reporting and partly funded by the McCormick Foundation (Alex Vadukul/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/style/a-new-magazine-in-this-media-en…

A New Magazine? In This Media Environment?
Now Voyager, an ambitious publication packed with dispatches from around the world, throws itself a party in Harlem.

Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down after two and a half years to pursue research ambitions; founding member Peter Clark will serve as interim CEO (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/allen-instit

I donated to Give Directly https://www.givedirectly.org/ to benefit refugees
"GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world's poorest households. In doing so, we aim to accelerate the end of extreme poverty globally."
Give Directly believes is da…

GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty
GiveDirectly allows donors to send money directly to people in poverty with no strings attached. Our approach is guided by rigorous evidence of impact and our values of efficiency, transparency, and respect.

Current and ex-CPJ staffers say the nonprofit scrapped its Global Impunity Index in 2025 because Israel would have been ranked near the top or first, for years (Ali Abunimah/The Electronic Intifada)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/a

The Military Religious Freedom Foundationhas received a litany of complaints about religious ideology seeping into military orders since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran,
independent journalist Jon Larsen first reported.
Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF,
a nonprofit group established 21 years ago that focuses on ensuring constitutional protections for service members,
spoke with HuffPost by phone Tuesday morning and illuminated some details of the…

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

A look at Social Spider, a nonprofit that publishes four monthly print newspapers in London and expects to be profitable for a second straight year in 2026 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

The non-profit publisher making local news pay in London
Social Spider CIC reinvests any profit it makes back into its local journalism.

While announcing its sports buildup, Banner EIC Audrey Cooper noted the civic value: "At a time when so much pulls communities apart, sports bring us together" (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)
https://dankennedy.net/2026/02/13/why-

How The Baltimore Banner’s embrace of DC sports fits with its editor’s civic-minded agenda
The gutting of The Washington Post may prove to be an opportunity for The Baltimore Banner. According to an announcement, the Banner, a digital nonprofit startup, will cover Washington teams, inclu…

A look at nonprofit VTDigger, which has been operating at a loss since 2022 and is seeking its third EIC in just over a year after tough union negotiations (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/business/vtdigger-departu…

VTDigger grapples with executive departures, financial challenges
Executive departures, financial challenges, and a tense contract negotiation with its editorial union has left VTDigger on unstable footing.