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Members of CompTIA spent a night sleeping somewhere other than their beds to raise awareness of youth homelessness.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Photo courtesy of Plymouth Housing) There’s no dancing around the seriousness of the homelessness crisis in Seattle. “I want to do all that I can to raise awareness and build support to address homelessness in the community.” ” Saturday’s program will be live streamed on YouTube.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

families experiencing homelessness. The national homelessness crisis has grown significantly in recent years, and the greater Seattle area has large numbers of unsheltered residents. The national homelessness crisis has grown significantly in recent years, and the greater Seattle area has large numbers of unsheltered residents.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

In an effort to overhaul Seattle’s approach to its homeless crisis, a coalition of downtown business leaders and non-profit representatives on Thursday introduced a citywide ballot measure to force the city to fund a battery of services and shelters for thousands of the town’s unsheltered residents. Tents line a downtown Seattle street.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A group of Seattle corporations and philanthropies are giving more than $10 million to an effort that aims to decrease homelessness in and around downtown. The team will aim to dramatically reduce homeless camping, from around 800-to-1,000 people to 30, by getting unsheltered homeless people on a path to permanent housing.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

Attached to one of Amazon’s downtown Seattle office buildings, in the heart of the tech giant’s headquarters campus, a new homeless shelter built by the company is now open and servicing people in need. Today, along with @MarysPlaceWA, we’ve opened the largest family homeless shelter in Washington state. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

A homeless encampment in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. Backers of the Compassion Seattle measure reversed course Tuesday morning and decided to appeal a judge’s decision to remove the homeless policy reform measure from the November ballot. GeekWire Photo / John Cook).

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2021

The Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade began accepting families last March , and became a critical option for those experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon provided some numbers about the shelter’s first year of operations, including: Provided safe shelter for 700 guests experiencing homelessness.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

During his lifetime, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s wide-ranging philanthropic initiatives included several programs to alleviate the homelessness crisis in his hometown. Today, a year-and-a-half after his passing, the unique housing development and resource center for families at risk of homelessness that he funded opens its doors.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

The group pushing the Compassion Seattle ballot measure which seeks to overhaul city policies toward its persistent homeless crisis will be turning in more than 60,000 signatures on Thursday in an effort to qualify the measure for the November ballot. . Compassion Seattle: Is this the path to solving homelessness?

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

A homeless encampment in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. More than five years after Seattle issued a proclamation declaring a civil emergency related to homelessness, the crisis still reverberates. GeekWire Photo / John Cook). Registration is free, but space is limited so make sure to sign up here.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

That Seattle has a homelessness crisis isn’t in dispute; how to solve it is. . But critics of the measure have asserted that the initiative is simply an attempt to promote the sweep of homeless camps and to criminalize homelessness. Related: Are tech employees coming back to downtown Seattle?

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TechSpot

APRIL 22, 2024

Beneficiaries included scammers, gambling addicts and even some homeless people who realized that they could milk the malfunctioning machines. The incident happened in mid-2023 when customers of The Star casino were able to withdraw boatloads of cash from four "ticket in, cash out" (TICO) machines affected by a software glitch.

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Galido

JULY 11, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Content marketing lessons you can learn from the homeless - Information Technology Blog. If you are a resident of an urban area, chances are high that you have seen your fair share of homeless people, panhandlers and street signs. Here are some differences and lessons you can learn from the homeless.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 3, 2020

Say you're passionate about saving the rainforests, improving homeless shelters, or helping children with cancer, Charity Navigator's tools help you find and make smarter choices about where you contribute and donate.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 9, 2020

New research from Canada is the latest to show that simply giving money to people in need helps them tremendously. The year-long study in British Columbia found that people who were given a $7,500 cash payment (roughly $5,700 USD) spent fewer nights at a shelter, experienced fewer days without enough food, and secured… Read more.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The endeavor was created to help in two areas: fund existing non-profits that help families experiencing homelessness, and create a network of new, non-profit tier-one preschools in low-income communities. Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention , Indianapolis, Ind., Facing Forward to End Homelessness , Chicago, $1.25

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TechSpot

AUGUST 1, 2022

YouTuber Basically Homeless recently transformed a toilet into a gaming PC, that way he can "just sit there and go potty whilst gaming."

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MAY 15, 2023

A Way Home Washington The Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane’s significant decline in youth and young adult homelessness, as revealed through their data analysis. (A Providing local organizations with technical expertise to better use their data around homelessness.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

It kicks off what is likely to be a fight about how a progressive city deals with a chronic homelessness crisis and tries to keep residents and business leaders happy while improving the lives of the city’s thousands of unhoused. This is what Charter Amendment 29 offers,” Scholes added.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to city policies to curb homelessness, 55 percent of respondents rated it as their top issue with nearly as many — 52 percent — putting affordable housing at the top of their civic concerns, followed by climate change (45 percent) and racial justice (32 percent). .

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 4, 2021

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, suspected that a city contractor was illegally trashing property belonging to people living at an encampment for people experiencing homelessness, so he covertly attached Apple AirTag tracking devices to some of the items. Sure enough, the items ended up in a landfill, and now there may… Read more.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

Until there’s a credible, durable solution to crime and homelessness in the downtown core, I think Seattle will have a hard time luring tech companies back. The tax on the city’s top-grossing companies, intended to address homelessness, was repealed shortly after it passed in 2018 amid opposition from Amazon and others.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 26, 2016

Homeless World Cup’s new website will help homeless people around the world improve their lives through football tournaments

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JUNE 14, 2023

Marty Hartman will step down as executive director of Mary’s Place, the Seattle-based nonprofit that provides resources for individuals experiencing homelessness and built a homeless shelter attached to Amazon’s HQ. He is currently an independent consultant and advisor and was a special projects lead at Monsanto.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The downtown area has struggled with public safety issues, homelessness and more — before and during the pandemic. The chronic homelessness crisis and safety issues are leading concerns among employers and employees who work downtown especially. “Some of our private sector is thriving. .”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And only New York and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness. We can’t control the circumstances that lead us into homelessness,” said Kelmendi, who first observed how the housing market is stacked against vulnerable people as a child, when he immigrated from Kosovo to the U.S. Bidding wars abound. as a refugee.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Bezos launched a $2 billion Bezos Day One Fund in 2018 that focuses on homeless families and preschool education. Florida does not have a capital gains tax. Like Washington state, Florida also does not have an income tax. The Bezos Earth Fund, launched in 2020, is putting $10 billion toward climate initiatives.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) The tax would have required companies to pay a per-employee sum to generate revenue for affordable housing and initiatives to fight homelessness. ” In 2020, lawmakers managed to approve a new payroll tax dubbed JumpStart Seattle. ”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Before starting the development company Great Expectations , Maritz co-authored a 2020 McKinsey report on homelessness that made waves in Seattle and beyond. The report estimated that fixing Seattle’s homeless crisis would cost over $1 billion, and that Seattle tech companies should share some of that load. “It

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Bezos launched a $2 billion Bezos Day One Fund in 2018 that focuses on homeless families and preschool education. Florida does not have a capital gains tax. Like Washington state, Florida also does not have an income tax. The Bezos Earth Fund, launched in 2020, is putting $10 billion toward climate initiatives.

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GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2023

The varying nonprofits offer digital skills training, devices, technology support, and free/low-cost internet to low-income residents, people with disabilities, English language learners, those who are justice-involved, older adults, BIPOC, immigrants and refugees, people experiencing homelessness, and transgender or gender-expansive adults.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2021

Two are being built in partnership with the City of Seattle’s Office of Housing and will provide “permanent supportive housing,” which combines affordable housing with support services for people who struggle with homelessness. Two other projects will include significant numbers of affordable units.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The JumpStart tax, originally passed in 2020, targets payrolls at the city’s largest companies and was designed to pay for affordable housing and homeless services, equitable economic development projects, and Green New Deal investments to help the city meet its environmental goals. million in its first year — $48.1

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Computer Weekly

MAY 27, 2016

Safe and secure handling of sensitive data remains a top priority for the homelessness charity

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GeekWire

APRIL 25, 2023

Part of the chicken-and-egg challenge to revitalizing Seattle’s downtown is the lack of workers coming into the office — but many companies and workers balk at returning to the workplace due in part to concerns about safety and the homelessness crisis. 56% said homelessness was a concern, down from 61% a year ago.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

“This is an essential obligation of our government, just like continued work to provide shelter, housing, services and support for those experiencing homelessness.”. ” While crime and homelessness are often lumped together, reality isn’t quite so straightforward. . said the Qumulo CEO. “I

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