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📌 [PINNED FOR EASY ACCESSIBILITY] Apparently there is such as thing as too many characters in a LinkedIn post, so here are some more areas to donate items and places to donate funds in this repost. Thanks to Offline, Raleigh Founded and Prept for sharing these resources with us and the rest of the community! 📍 More Raleigh/Cary Supply Drop-off Locations — Burial Beer Co: 500 E Davie St #170, Raleigh — East Bower Cider Company: 2020 Progress Ct Suite 160, Raleigh — The Pour House Music Hall: 224 S Blount St, Raleigh, NC 📍 More Durham Locations — Beer Tooth Taproom: 105 NC-54 Suite 263, Durham — Cocoa Cinnamon: all Durham locations — Fullsteam at Boxyard RTP: 900 Park Offices Dr Suite 125, Durham — The Glass Jug Beer Lab: 5410 NC-55 V, Durham 🛍️ Prept is hosting a A Fall/Winter Fashion Showcase where you can see a fashion show of local clothing items that you can buy there! 10% of proceeds will be donated to organizations supporting efforts in Western North Carolina. AND they will be collecting donations for priority supplies in need for The No Woman, No Girl Initiative. When you donate you'll get special discounts to shop. 🚨 CHECK OUT the WNC Resource Guide, that has resources on how to help county-specific areas: https://lnkd.in/eZfjvHGY

We are celebrating GrepBeat's official launch to Wilmington this month (and the end of the week) by inviting Wilmington-based, long time entrepreneur Daniel Summers to this week's episode of The Friday Nooner! For over 11 years, Daniel has been the CEO and Founding Partner of Electronic Lab Logs (ELL), which provides a cloud-based software platform that gives laboratories the ability to track and report Regulatory Compliance. Join him, the GrepBeat Godfather and the unofficial, professional side-host Melissa Crosby this Friday at noon to hear more about ELL and what they're doing in Wilmington!

Heads up! Our running list of resources and donation locations are PINNED 📌 to the top of our LinkedIn posts so that it's easy to come back to. We will continue to add more resources as we come across them in that post... or in the comments because there is a thing as too many characters in a post! But most importantly, we want to thank everyone in this community and beyond for their continued support and help for WNC. The devastation is terrible, but it's great to see our shared communities come together to help out our neighbors in the West.

During election season, many of us are reflecting on how different laws might affect our lives. For some lobbyists and nonprofits, this is a more regular consideration—election year or not. 🗳️ These entities work to influence laws on a steady basis, and now a Raleigh-based startup wants to help them do so more efficiently. Roboro AI empowers its clients to advocate for the causes they believe in and help pass meaningful legislation. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ex2i_HRR

Thank you to everyone who came out to our October Happy Hour last night to celebrate not only the first one back since the summer, but also the first day of the American Underground's partnership with the FCAT fellowship! 🍻 Glad to see the FCAT startups getting involved with the community and even greater to see the community's support for these budding new companies! Miss the event? Check out our recap story (with pictures) ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ePfNfJ5P

Happy #InTheSoup 🍲 Wednesday! Whether you are a very early-stage startup or a far off company, you are always having to discover what your customers need as they (and your business) evolve. That's why in today's episode, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are breaking down customer discovery and what it consists of. They are joined by Rob Cotter of Environmental Transit Authority, and John Austin, who is currently a mentor/coach for startups since having graduated from NC IDEA. Listen (and subscribe) to the show here 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gAVCWcis or wherever you listen to podcasts!

When his little cousin dropped out of college for feeling discouraged by his college classes, Tony S. found himself playing the role of tutor for the first time. Seing, who also studied computer science and struggled in school, began teaching him programming by night. Three years later, seeing the improvement in his cousin’s learning led Seing to develop the first prototype for what would become Brainery Labs. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e28p9nqu

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 As many of you may know, Western NC was devastated by Hurricane Helene and have left thousands stranded and without power or resources. As the GrepBeat Godfather said in a latest TBJ article, "This isn't a thousand miles away. This is the familiar mountain towns we all know and love." If you can, please consider donating money for aid, donating blood or dropping off supplies at the following locations around the Triangle. [THIS POST WILL BE CONTINUALLY UPDATED WITH MORE RESOURCES AS WE COME ACROSS THEM!] 📍 Raleigh/Cary — Raleigh Founded: 509 W North Street in Raleigh (until Oct. 4) — Rumah: 415 Hillsborough St, Raleigh 27603 (see website's calendar) — Hometown Martial Arts: 5500 Atlantic Springs Rd (during business hours until Oct. 4 at 5 p.m.) — Dogwood Country Club: 2431 Crabtree Blvd 101, Raleigh (during normal business hours, plus early morning Tuesday and Friday, starting at 6 AM) — Bond Brothers Beer Company: 202 E Cedar St, Cary (during business hours until Oct. 4 at 5 p.m.) — Catering Works: 2319 Laurelbrook St, Raleigh — Close-King Indoor Practice Facility: 4550 Trinity Rd, Raleigh 📍 Durham — Art Post: 718 Iredell St, Durham 27705 (Mon-Sat, 12-6pm) — The Can Opener: 205 South Gregson St., Durham (during business hours until Oct. 4 at 5 p.m.) — The Scrap Exchange: 2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham 27707 (10:30am-6pm) — Bull City Burger and Brewery: 107 E Parrish St, Durham — Bull City Solera and Taproom: 4120 University Dr, Durham — Scott Family Athletics Performance Center: 110 Whitford Dr, Durham 📍 Chapel Hill/Carrboro — Back Alley Bikes: 100 Boyd St, Carrboro 27510 (Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm) — The Speakeasy: 100 E Main St A&B, Carrboro (this week during business hours) — Dingo Dog Brewery: 410 N Greensboro St #150, Carrboro 📍 Other locations — Chatham County Sheriff’s Office: 295 West St., Pittsboro (Mon-Fri, 8 am-7pm) — Piggly Wiggly of Siler City (Sun-Fri, during store hours) — Walmart Shopping Center Parking Lot in Siler City (Mon-Fri, 9am-6:30pm) — Johnston County Sheriff's Office: 2875 U.S. Highway 70 Business East in Smithfield (now until Oct. 4, 8:30am-5 pm) — Wake Forest Fire Department: 420 Elm Ave., Wake Forest Cash donations can be made to the following organizations: — Triangle Mutual Aid: https://lnkd.in/eAB-4hpD — North Carolina Disaster Fund: https://lnkd.in/eeWj-4CM — Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: https://lnkd.in/emSFC79t — NC Community Foundation: https://lnkd.in/eZcXU9Te — Beloved Asheville: https://lnkd.in/eh2hujR5 — Manna Foodbank in AVL: https://lnkd.in/dEnShwga — Second Harvest Food Bank: https://lnkd.in/evrNGdVJ — United Way of NC: https://lnkd.in/ehXtUp3p — American Red Cross: https://lnkd.in/dFuKvbvb — Samaritan's Purse: https://lnkd.in/e8WdbSrY TBJ's Lauren Ohnesorge also has a great article about resources and ways to help, along with what some Triangle entrepreneurs and organizations are doing for aid. https://lnkd.in/eYQGhW_X Photo creds: The News & Observer Publishing Company

Happy #InternationalPodcastDay! Let's celebrate the power of audio storytelling! 🎙️🎧✨ Check out our podcasts and some of our favorite local ones from Triangle entrepreneurs and leaders! 🎧 What are some of your favorite podcasts? Tag them below! Earfluence (Jason Gillikin), High Octane Leadership Podcast (Donald Thompson, CDE®), Sales HQ (Vince Beese), Podcast Ally (Dr. Sarah Glova)

These days it can be hard to keep up with what's new and upcoming in our fast-moving Triangle ecosystem. That's why we'll be keeping you in the know with your own curated #MondayMix. 🎧 ⚽ 10/02: Innovate Carolina Workshop Wednesday - "Winning Teams" (1-2:30pm) 💻 10/02: Triangle Tech Night - AI for Humans: Innovation, Ethics, and Responsibility (4-6pm) 👩💻 10/02: NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ladies Who Launch (5:30-7pm) 🍻 10/02: GrepBeat October Happy Hour (5-7pm) 📈 10/03-04: ConvergeSouth Conference 2024 ♻️ 10/04: North Carolina Technology Association (NC TECH) Digital Drive (10am-2pm) 🎶 Your song selection this week: "Feeling Low" by The Hiding Magpies. Stick around to the end of the episode to give it a listen! Check out and subscribe to the podcast! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ecepkFpE