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Republican nominee for Virginia governor names new campaign manager
Republican nominee for Virginia governor names new campaign manager

Yahoo

time3 hours ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Republican nominee for Virginia governor names new campaign manager

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears is bringing on a new campaign manager as the GOP nominee for Virginia governor seeks to quell concerns about the direction of her campaign ahead of the high-profile off-year election this November. Pennsylvania-based political strategist Corey Barsky will take on the role, CNN has learned. A campaign spokesperson says Barsky will take over for Will Archer, who the campaign announced last week was moving into a different role. Barsky has already been serving as a senior adviser for the campaign. According to his LinkedIn page, he is currently a strategist at the political consulting firm ColdSpark and a 2021 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. The staffing shift comes as Earle-Sears, the state's lieutenant governor, trails her Democratic rival, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, in fundraising and public polling. Spanberger announced last week that her campaign raised $10.7 million in the second quarter, eclipsing the $5.9 million brought in by Earle-Sears. A recent poll by Virginia Commonwealth University found Earle-Sears trailing Spanberger by 12 points, 49% to 37%. Republicans have publicly criticized her fundraising and outreach to donors, including in a Politico magazine story published Wednesday. Core to Earle-Sears election argument is an emphasis on creating jobs and pursuing policies to benefit the working class. She's also leaning on the record of incumbent Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin though her campaign has also noted she cannot self-finance much of her campaign like Youngkin, who had a long business career before entering politics.

RNLI fundraising branch appeals for volunteers in Cambridge
RNLI fundraising branch appeals for volunteers in Cambridge

BBC News

time4 hours ago

  • General
  • BBC News

RNLI fundraising branch appeals for volunteers in Cambridge

An RNLI fundraising branch almost 100km (62 miles) from the coast may have to close by Christmas due to a lack of volunteers. Geoffrey Heathcock helps to run a shop for the charity inside a garage on Queen Edith's Way in chairman said, although the area was landlocked, it was important to ensure those who did not live near the coast were aware of its Heathcock, who has volunteered for the life-saving charity for more than 50 years, hoped new volunteers would continue their work. Mr Heathcock fears there is a lack of awareness about the dangers of the sea among people who live far from the coast."It's critical to recognise you are on the coast and not in the local swimming pool," he said."You are dealing with currents, unknowns under the water, water temperature, waves, and all sorts of things you wouldn't necessarily think about if you're not aware and reminded of on a regular basis."The RNLI charity shop has been run from the garage for the last four years. Mr Heathcock said it had been busy, with people travelling "some distance" to shop there, particularly at Christmas. "The retail side of it is very busy and I've reached the point where, unless we can draw in some new blood, I've got to reluctantly shut down and retire because we can't keep going on our own." Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.

CNA938 Rewind - Subsidy clawback hits a high of 12%
CNA938 Rewind - Subsidy clawback hits a high of 12%

CNA

time5 hours ago

  • Entertainment
  • CNA

CNA938 Rewind - Subsidy clawback hits a high of 12%

CNA938 Rewind - Help save our Asian Wildcats In 'Destination Anywhere', Melanie Oliveiro finds out where Singaporeans and Singapore residents can go to attend a fundraising lunch to help save Asian wildcats. The one-day event is called the SWAG Protect Asian Cats From Trafficking and Trade (PACT) Fundraising Lunch. Held on Saturday 21 June at Colombian restaurant Latido, Kanitha Krishnasamy from NGO TRAFFIC and Carmen Pang from the Singapore Wildcat Action Group will talk about the lunch's itinerary, what issues about wildcat trafficking will be discussed and how much money is needed to be raised from this fundraising event.

Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature
Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature

Yahoo

time8 hours ago

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature

Open source X and Threads competitor Mastodon will begin experimenting with a new way to raise funds: in-app donations. The organization on Wednesday announced it's launching a campaign that introduces banners inside its Android and iOS apps, prompting users to make a monetary donation. Initially, the feature will be shown only to those on the Mastodon servers the nonprofit itself operates, and These banners will be easy to dismiss, Mastodon says, and will only be shown to people who have accounts that have existed for at least four weeks. The organization promises that it won't continually prompt users to donate, either. Such campaigns can work well for nonprofit organizations at scale. Wikimedia Foundation, for example, brings in the majority of its funding from individual donors, including those who donate through the pop-up banners that occasionally appear on Wikipedia. However, Mastodon has a much smaller user base: 8.1 million registered accounts, and fewer than 1 million monthly active users. Still, the banners could encourage people who haven't actively sought out ways to contribute to now do so, as it makes the process more seamless as an in-app feature. Mastodon says it will later expand the campaign to the web and, if successful, make it available to all other Mastodon instances. The latter would allow individual server admins to receive direct support from their own users, which could help keep them operational. As an open, decentralized social media platform, Mastodon faces challenges when it comes to financial support. Unlike Meta and X, which are supported by ads, Mastodon so far has relied largely on user donations from Patreon. It has also accepted a handful of donations from open source-focused funds and foundations over the years. In 2023, Mastodon raised €545,000 in total donations, up 65% year-over-year, but its Patreon donor base dropped nearly 23% to 7,400. (Its 2024 report is not out yet.) That decline could have pushed it to look into more aggressive fundraising tactics, especially as competition from Meta and newcomers like the VC-backed startup Bluesky is growing. 'We know that collecting money can present complexities and questions,' a Mastodon blog post stated. 'We'd like to figure out how to do this well, together with the community. This is not a corporate fundraising campaign: it's an effort to secure the future of a more ethical and independent social web.' Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data

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