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Feb 16, 2012 Needmap Video Earns Liquidnet Finalist $1k The Liquidnet "Markets for Good Challenge" is aimed at making your giving more effective. Together with Net Impact, Liquidnet has challenged student teams to improve performance-based giving through innovative solutions. This year, Liquidnet introduced an additional $1,000 prize to the team's video that best showcased their idea. And the winner is…Needmap! We asked Vladimir Dubovskiy, the co-founder and CTO of Needmap, a few questions about his winning video.
Feb 07, 2012 Who Knew a Master's Could Help Fight Illegal Drugs in National Parks? When you think of the many challenges facing US National Parks, you probably go straight to a lack of funding, or maybe encroaching land development. But there’s another threat to our park system that’s often overlooked, particularly in California: illegal marijuana cultivation. “It has a huge impact on the park,” explains Snapper Poche, a former National Park Business Plan Intern who served at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, “because heavy equipment and fertilizer is brought in, trees are cleared, and the place is trashed.” Snapper’s job at the park was to help identify how much park personnel were investing in battling this particular issue.
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