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MIAMI, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Association Law Group (ALG) started by representing some of the worst financially hit HOAs and condos in South Florida at the time of the Great Recession, but now represents some of the top luxury brand condominium towers ever built. Among other clients, ALG is attorney for ultra-high end luxury buildings such as the Four Seasons Surf Club, Ritz Residences Miami Beach, SLS Brickell, Jade Signature, Muse, Echo Brickell, and Paramount Miami World Center, to name a few. Partner, Jeff Cooperman, also works with the boards of directors of condominium towers including The Bond (1080 Brickell), Brickell Heights, SLS Lux, Elysee, 87 Park, and Auberge Ft. Lauderdale. 

«We deliver a highly personalized service to our clients and have great success in managing complex legal issues by working closely with boards and providing thoughtful, timely and strategic legal guidance. We work with a client base that is accustomed to priority attention and service, and our firm strives to exceed the highest of expectations with our hands-on approach,» stated Mr. Cooperman. 

Managing Partner, Ben Solomon, also serves as counsel for Panorama Tower (the tallest building in Florida at 85 stories), Harborview at Fisher Island, and the new Ritz Carlton Residences in Sunny Isles.  

«We specialize in developer-controlled projects and often get involved early. Associations typically need extra legal help at the beginning when operations start up and the owners take over,» commented Mr. Solomon. 

ALG also represents hundreds of additional HOAs (including many master associations) and condominiums as general counsel, with a particular focus on collections and litigation. ALG has recovered over $200M in past due assessments and fees for clients and has successfully handled over 20,000 collection cases. The firm defers most fees and costs and collects the same from the responsible owner.  

ALG is also a title agent and handles residential and commercial real estate transactions. The partners of the firm have closed billions of dollars’ worth of loans, transactions, and other contracts for clients.

ALG plans to open a newly constructed law office in Brickell on the 52^nd Floor of Panorama Tower later this year and has its second office in the Las Olas area of Fort Lauderdale. For more information on ALG, please contact the firm at info@ALG-Firm.com or visit www.ALG-FIRM.com.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — «Dr. Woodcock’s decades of experience, steady leadership, and empathy are the leadership we need at this time in America. Today, the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics review and approval effort will be in the hands of one of our nation’s most experienced and skilled health leaders. The critical FDA infrastructure is well served by naming Dr. Janet Woodcock as the Acting Commissioner of FDA. Dr. Woodcock has always been guided by science in her decisions and motivated by a desire to improve lives that brought her to her chosen profession of science and medicine. She has a deep understanding and deep empathy for the needs of those most underserved by our health system. Dr. Woodcock has been a leader in FDA for improving our science base so that it reflects the diversity of the nation and efforts to diversify the FDA workforce. Under her leadership, FDA will lead the COVID response in a way that puts science at the core of its decisions,» said Jane L. Delgado, PhD, MS, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.

About the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (The Alliance)
The Alliance is the nation’s foremost science-based source of information and trusted advocate for the health of Hispanics in the United States with a mission to achieve the best health for all. For more information visit us at www.healthyamericas.org.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — EverCheck further cements itself as an environmentally-conscious organization by partnering with 1% for the Planet. Through this partnership, EverCheck will donate 1 percent of its revenues in 2021 to environmental nonprofits that dedicate themselves to bettering the planet for future generations.

From encouraging staff to use green methods of transportation to becoming 100 percent carbon-neutral, sustainability has always been at the heart of EverCheck’s culture. EverCheck continues to be one of the only SaaS companies serving the healthcare industry that also serves as a champion for the environment.

«Our goal is that our donations and actions make a direct, net-positive impact on the planet, bring greater awareness to these issues, and make our current and future customers feel like a part of something bigger just by partnering with us,» says EverCheck CEO, Brian Solano.

About EverCheck: EverCheck is a software-as-a-service provider delivering Clear To Work solutions for more than 375 healthcare organizations across the nation. Daily, automated verification is the cornerstone of EverCheck’s HR solution, setting the gold standard for healthcare license, certification, and registration verification. Learn more about the Clear To Work platform at evercheck.com. To learn more about EverCheck’s sustainability efforts, visit evercheck.com/sustainability.

About 1% for the Planet: A nonprofit organization and global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental nonprofits through annual membership and everyday actions. Learn more at onepercentfortheplanet.org.

Media Contact

Caroline Johnson, EverCheck, +1 (904) 599-3299, caroline@evercheck.com

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — «Dr. Woodcock’s decades of experience, steady leadership, and empathy are the leadership we need at this time in America. Today, the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics review and approval effort will be in the hands of one of our nation’s most experienced and skilled health leaders. The critical FDA infrastructure is well served by naming Dr. Janet Woodcock as the Acting Commissioner of FDA. Dr. Woodcock has always been guided by science in her decisions and motivated by a desire to improve lives that brought her to her chosen profession of science and medicine. She has a deep understanding and deep empathy for the needs of those most underserved by our health system. Dr. Woodcock has been a leader in FDA for improving our science base so that it reflects the diversity of the nation and efforts to diversify the FDA workforce. Under her leadership, FDA will lead the COVID response in a way that puts science at the core of its decisions,» said Jane L. Delgado, PhD, MS, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.

About the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (The Alliance)
The Alliance is the nation’s foremost science-based source of information and trusted advocate for the health of Hispanics in the United States with a mission to achieve the best health for all. For more information visit us at www.healthyamericas.org.

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PORTLAND, Maine, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — AEC Next Technology Expo & Conference, International Lidar Mapping Forum, and SPAR 3D Expo & Conference are coming together to form Geo Week 2022 and will take place February 6-8, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. The joining of these events reflects the increased integration between the built environment, advanced airborne/terrestrial technologies, and commercial 3D technologies. Geo Week is at the forefront of this integration, providing education, technology, and resources for professionals in industries including AEC, Asset & Facility Management, Disaster & Emergency Response, Earth Observation & Satellite Applications, Energy & Utilities, Infrastructure & Transportation, Land & Natural Resource Management, Mining & Aggregates, Surveying & Mapping, and Urban Planning/Smart Cities.

«We’ve witnessed the growing convergence between geospatial and the built world, and we received positive feedback from customers about holding the events together, which had been the plan for 2020 and 2021 before the pandemic forced us to cancel due to the unavoidable consequence of the worsening magnitude of the public health and safety issues caused by the COVID-19,» said Lee Corkhill, Marketing Director at Diversified Communications. «We believe the market is ready and eager for this next step of leveraging the confluence of what are becoming ubiquitous technologies for improved collaboration, increased efficiency, and better outcomes. Much of the conference content and technology being showcased will reflect and support this increasing integration.» An Advisory Board of industry leaders will guide conference programming and event development.

In addition to Diversified Communications’ technology events coming together, powerful partnership events will also take place at Geo Week, including the ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Annual Conference and USIBD’s (U.S. Institute of Building Documentation) Annual Symposium. ASPRS, USIBD and other events have supported and taken place with ILMF, AEC Next and SPAR 3D when the latter events took place separately. Bringing all these brands together as a new powerhouse event under the Geo Week umbrella is a fitting evolution that recognizes the increasing convergence of the technologies.

Karen Schuckman, PLS, CP, CMS and Managing Director of ASPRS, said, «Bringing ASPRS and ILMF together beginning in 2018 reunited the photogrammetry, remote sensing, and lidar professionals and vendors who enthusiastically welcomed the opportunity to attend one consolidated event; an event where they could roam one large exhibit hall and attend educational workshops to broaden their expertise into related disciplines. Bringing the built world into this mix through AEC Next and SPAR 3D acknowledges not only the richness and complexity of the technologies we have available for spatial analysis and decision making, it also give us all the opportunity to explore and invent new analysis methods that leverage the fusion of imagery, elevation, and bathymetry with 3D models of the built world. The merging of these disciplines IS the future. Co-locating our annual conferences and expositions facilitates us traveling into the future on a multi-lane superhighway.»

«The coming together of professionals from the geospatial and built environment communities is long overdue,» said John Russo, AIA, President of USIBD. «Finally, one event, one place where we can all gather to network and gain insight into the convergence of our worlds. The USIBD is excited to participate in GeoWeek and share its expertise in reality capture, BIM, digital twin and more!»

Geo Week counts a broad range of industry organizations, publications, and portals as supporters during this unprecedented period of transformation and disruption driving the rapid expansion of the internet of things, the development of smart cities, and a data revolution altering how people live and work. At the center of this revolution are geospatial, 3D, and location-based technologies. Geo Week is the only platform-neutral event in North America that brings together industry leaders to harness these technologies and explore the myriad applications they empower.

According to Corkhill, there will also be content that addresses the built environment, advanced airborne/terrestrial technologies, and commercial 3D technologies independently of one another.
«The event represents a continuum, with individuals and organizations from all corners of industry at differing levels of adoption. Geo Week will support a future vision, in which professionals and organizations that understand the full spectrum of data needs, work processes, software integration, and standards in both geospatial and BIM will be tomorrow’s technology leaders.»

The event will feature multiple tracks with content clearly identified as relevant to one or more of the audience groups feeding into Geo Week. The International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) audience has historically been comprised of precision measurement professionals in surveying and mapping who use airborne and terrestrial lidar and related remote sensing technologies. The AEC Next audience has historically been comprised of professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) that use technologies such as reality capture, automation, AI and XR to bid and manage projects and improve workflows. The SPAR 3D audience has historically been comprised of professionals who use 3D capture, scanning, visualization and modeling technologies across a variety of verticals. «We will use these familiar brands to designate content and make it easy and accessible for all stakeholders to find the solutions, connections, and education they need, no matter which vertical or industry segment they originated from.» says Corkhill. To this end, the organizers will also continue to publish Geo Week ENewsletter, SPAR 3D ENewsletter, and AEC ENewsletter. Interested parties may subscribe to one or more of these newsletters here.

Virtual Offerings in 2021

Setting the stage for the grand opening of Geo Week 2022 will be a series of virtual offerings this year, including webinars, panel discussions, technology showcases, and case studies. These offerings will serve to bring geospatial and built world stakeholders together via education and connections, detailing how these segments can and will work together in the future. From collaboration across the project team to alignment of industry measurements and standards, interested parties will gain valuable information and a roadmap to the future via this information hub. Learn more and register here.

About Geo Week

Geo Week is part of a network of events and media for the global geospatial and built markets organized by Diversified Communications, a leading organizer of conferences, trade shows, and online media with 15 years in the technology arena. Geo Week, taking place February 6-8, 2022, is the new brand name of previously stand-alone events AEC Next Technology Expo & Conference, International Lidar Mapping Forum, and SPAR 3D Expo & Conference, and reflects the increased integration between the built environment, advanced airborne/terrestrial technologies, and commercial 3D technologies. Powerful partnership events will also take place at Geo Week, including ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) and USIBD (US Institute of Building Documentation). Diversified Communications also produces Geo Week ENewsletter, SPAR3D ENewsletter, AEC ENewsletter, GeoBusiness Show (UK), Commercial UAV Expo Americas, Commercial UAV Europe and Commercial UAV News. For more information, visit http://www.geo-week.com.

About Diversified Communications

Diversified Communications is a leading international media company with a portfolio of face-to-face exhibitions and conferences, online communities, and digital and print publications. As producers of these market-leading products, Diversified Communications connects, educates, and strengthens business communities in over 14 industries including technology, food and beverage, healthcare, natural and organic, and business management. Established in 1949 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, USA with divisions and offices around the world, Diversified Communications remains a privately held, third generation, family-owned business. For more information, visit http://www.divcom.com.

Media Contact

Lee Corkhill, Diversified Communications, 207-842-5520, lcorkhill@divcom.com

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — As we reflect on the challenges we faced and opportunities 2021 brings, the Women Business Collaborative (WBC) and Equilar share good news from the private sector:  the number of women and diverse women appointed to board of public companies continues to increase.  In December 2020, public companies appointed 107 women to Boards of public companies as compared to 175 men.  Women comprised 37.8% of overall board appointments.  This reflects an upward trend in the 4^th quarter of 2020 with women comprising on average 41% of appointees.

The appointments of women of color continues to rise. In December, 28 of the women appointed identified as women of color with women identifying as African American leading the way with 13 seats.  Nine of these African American women are first time board members – the pool of women holding board seats of public companies is growing. This is exactly what the WBC and its partners and champions are calling for – parity in leadership positions on all boards.

Edie Fraser, CEO of the WBC, said, «The latest data reflects that more companies are adding women, and the private sector is taking major steps towards true representation coupled with calls from groups such as Nasdaq to include at least one board member of diversity.»

This upward trend demonstrates the attention the private sector is paying to calls for diverse leadership on boards. The call is for boards of public companies to look more like the composition of the population, communities, customers and public.

During 2020 the trend toward parity was positive.  Women gained a net of 1,055 seats on board of public companies and replaced 115 seats previously held by men. Overall, women gained 2.3% points of seats going from constituting 19.2% of board seats at the end of 2019 to 12.5% of board seats at the end of 2020.

Directors identifying as people of color comprised 12.5% of all the appointments in 2020. As this information is self-reported, it is important to note that the percentage of people of color appointed to public boards could be higher.

The overall trends across companies shows an increase in both the number of women and people of color appointed to boards of public companies. Equilar and WBC are tracking and analyzing the appointment of directors in terms of numbers, diversity and profile; but also, the companies and industries in which female board members are present and how many of the overall board seats are held by women. The time is now for women to sit across all companies, boards, and sectors.  Please, join us in celebrating, tracking, analyzing, and promoting women on boards of public companies.

ABOUT WBC
The Women Business Collaborative (WBC) is an unprecedented alliance and a business women’s movement focused on equal positions, pay and power for all business women.   https://www.wbcollaborative.org/

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BOSTON, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Sappi North America, Inc., a leading producer and supplier of diversified paper, packaging products and pulp, today announced that it has extended its current SmartWay^® Transport Partnership, an innovative collaboration between U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry. The SmartWay Transport Partnership provides a framework to assess the environmental and energy efficiency of goods movement supply chains and benchmark overall performance.

This is Sappi’s 12^th consecutive year as a SmartWay Transport Partner, and the company will continue to contribute to the Partnership’s savings of 279.7 million barrels of oil, $37.5 billion in fuel costs and 134 million tons of air pollutants. This collective effort is the equivalent of the annual electricity use in 18.2 million homes. By being a part of the SmartWay Transport Partnership, Sappi demonstrates its strong environmental leadership and corporate responsibility.

«With sustainability at the core of Sappi’s business, we are proud to continue enhancing our environmental freight management practices as a long-time SmartWay Partner,» said Anne Ayer, Vice President, Pulp Business and Supply Chain at Sappi North America. «We are thankful for this organization and the other partners for working alongside us to collectively communicate fuel use and calculate freight emissions to lead to more informed decisions.»

The partnership was developed jointly in early 2003 by EPA and Charter Partners represented by industry stakeholders, environmental groups, American Trucking Associations, and Business for Social Responsibility. Partners rely upon SmartWay tools and approaches to track and reduce emissions and fuel use from goods movement. The Partnership currently has over 3,000 partners including shipper, logistics companies, truck, rail, barge, and multimodal carriers.

As a certified shipper partner, Sappi utilizes carriers that leverage technology and design to minimize their collective carbon footprint. Sappi works toward increasing the amount of freight moved on intermodal and rail as well as increasing the amount of freight moved on certified carriers.

To learn more about Sappi North America, please visit www.sappi.com. For information about the SmartWay Transport Partnership visit www.epa.gov/smartway.

About Sappi North America, Inc.
Sappi North America, Inc., headquartered in Boston, is a market leader in converting wood fiber into superior products that customers demand worldwide. The success of our three diversified businesses – high-quality graphic papers, pulp, and packaging and speciality papers – is driven by strong customer relationships, best-in-class people and advantaged assets, products and services. Our high-quality graphic papers, including McCoy, Opus, Somerset, and Flo, are the key platform for premium magazines, catalogs, books, direct mail and high-end print advertising. We are a leading manufacturer of dissolving pulp with our Verve brand, a sustainable fiber, which is used in a wide range of products, including textile fibers and household goods. We deliver sustainable packaging and specialty papers for luxury packaging and folding carton applications with our single-ply packaging brands, Spectro and Proto, and for the food and label industries with our specialty papers, LusterPrint and LusterCote. We are also one of the world’s leading suppliers of casting and release papers with our Ultracast, PolyEx and Classics lines for the automotive, fashion and engineered films industries. Customers rely on Sappi for high technical, operational and market expertise; products and services delivered with consistently high quality and reliability; and, state-of-the-art and cost-competitive assets and innovative spirit.

Sappi North America, Inc. is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sappi Limited (JSE), a global company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with more than 12,000 employees and manufacturing operations on three continents in seven countries and customers in over 150 countries.

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STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — There has been an explosion of funding for climate tech in the past decade, and several global multilateral funds have pledged to commit vast resources towards climate causes. Additionally, many of the world’s largest companies have signed a pledge to meet the Paris Agreement goals ten years early.

While these endeavors are promising, what’s missing is a global network of action-oriented climate professionals with the skills needed to maximize the impact of these initiatives.

Terra.do is building that network.

The Mission

Terra.do’s mission is to get 100 million climate-conscious people substantially working on climate change solutions relevant to them by 2030.

The company raised $1.5M in early funding from a group of climate-conscious angels in August 2020 and has seen 100% quarter over quarter growth in revenue since the company launched earlier in the year.

Terra.do seeks to accomplish its mission through three steps:

● Learning – The foundation of Terra.do is its mission-focused online educational platform, managed by co-founder and climate expert Dr. Kamal Kapadia. The fully remote courses train professionals on the complexities of the global climate landscape. Each program is curated to a specific climate challenge and taught live by world-class instructors and guest lecturers like the leading climate scientist Dr. Charles «Chip» Fletcher and climate investor Sierra Peterson. The flagship program is Climate Change: Learning for Action, a 12-week intensive course covering every major angle of the climate landscape.

● Network – Through these courses, the company is building a robust global community of climate-aware individuals that want to engage in climate action. Participants, called «fellows», can expand their climate networks by tapping into a deep base of alumni, instructors, climate experts, and global partners such as Techstars. They also have access to career-focused resources, such as job fairs and mentorship programs.

● Action – Fellows and alumni engage with the climate solutions world in a variety of ways, including internships, projects, climate jobs, and entrepreneurship in climate. Alumni from early cohorts have gone on to found organizations such as Climate Changemakers, landed full-time positions in climate-aware companies such as Sidewalk Labs, and are running hands-on internship programs for new fellows.

«A massive wave of climate jobs is coming that will require all kinds of skills,» states Anshuman Bapna, founder and CEO of Terra.do. «We built a platform that allows talented individuals from around the world to develop the skills and network needed to jump into the climate fight. This infrastructure, which is the only one of its kind, will be critical to creating a high-impact climate workforce that can solve the diverse problems our world will face in the coming decades.»

The Story

The company was founded in early 2020 after Kamal’s brother-in-law randomly overhead Anshuman discussing climate in a cafe in Bengaluru, India. The two were introduced virtually, and leveraging their skills and networks, built a company designed to be 100% remote. In fact, the entire Terra.do team has never met in person.

While the distance appears to many as an obstacle, the company’s structure lets it thrive despite the challenges presented by COVID-19. «Our company and our community were designed to be completely online and remote from day one to enable every corner of the world to collaborate asynchronously on the problem,» states Bapna. «In that regard, we’re light years ahead of other real-world platforms that have been challenged during the pandemic.»

There was also a founding focus on diversity, inclusion, and a big-tent approach to climate solutions. This approach is baked into the company’s mission that 100 million minds from all over the world are necessary to create a transition to a post-climate-crisis world. Reflecting this is the company’s makeup of employees, instructors, fellows, and alumni from over 25 countries.

New Courses

Terra.do will launch over 25 new courses this year and is excited to announce the lineup for Q1 2021:

● January 25: The New Hydrogen Economy
● February 1: Climate-Smart Buildings
● February 8: Climate-Resilient Agricultural Value Chains
● February 21: Climate Camp for VCs and Investors with Techstars and Moxxie
Ventures
● March 4: Climate Change: Learning for Action (Flagship Course)
● March 13: The Climate Justice Workshop

These courses kick-off a banner year of activity and cover several of the most in-demand climate areas. Terra.do’s team of skilled instructors provide intensive, personalized teaching, and support to small groups of fellows. Students also receive 1-on-1 mentoring from 100+ experts who cover 50+ professional climate sectors. Terra.do’s courses regularly feature globally recognized guest speakers from a range of countries.

Job Fair

Terra.do also announces its ClimateTech Job Fair, which occurs on Friday, March 5. The job fair, which is the world’s largest online climate career event, is a live event that will match recruiters with job seekers looking for tech-focused roles. It’s a unique opportunity for those looking to interact with a massive network of individuals who are about climate work.

Terra.do’s first online job fair in November 2020 attracted companies such as Pachama, ZeroAvia, and Myst.AI, and over 1,000 job seeker registrants. This expanded version is expected to attract double that figure.

Dozens of organizations will be posting hundreds of technology jobs in fields such as software engineering, data science, product management, design, and more. Hiring managers and participants will have the opportunity to interact with one another in real-time via Slack and Zoom.

If you’d like to participate, as well as learn more about Terra.do’s courses, please visit:
https://www.terra.do

Media Contact

Nishant Mani, Terra.do, +1 (858) 200-5867, mani@terra.do

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