GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. “The board remains fully committed to serving this mission.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the nonprofit service shortly after it launched. “As Locast first responded by announcing on Wednesday evening it would simply remove the donation requests.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

With a significantly reduced team, we are operating with the absolute essentials.” The nonprofit cut 45% of its workforce in May, impacting about 34 of 76 employees at the time. Photo via PR Log) Shawna Young , a longtime leader in nonprofits, education and business development, has been appointed interim CEO, effective Sept.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Paige Hendrix Buckner is the new CEO of All Raise, a nonprofit founded in 2017 that supports women founders and investors. based tech leader in April became CEO of All Raise , the San Francisco-based nonprofit founded in 2017 to help boost women and non-binary founders and funders. Paige Hendrix Buckner wants that to change.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

trillion in assets under management serving the financial needs of people at more than 15,000 institutions across academia, government, medicine, cultural, and other nonprofit organizations. The question now is how to empower our colleagues in serving our clients, and how to create new experiences. That is a big focus.

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MAY 15, 2023

This year, we’re excited to celebrate four of these efforts as Geeks Give Back honorees at the 2023 GeekWire Awards. A Way Home Washington Photo) A Way Home Washington is using robust data and analytics to help solve one of the most tragic elements of the homelessness crisis: kids and young adults who live unsheltered.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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JULY 7, 2023

A two-time Technology All-Star award recipient from Women of Color in STEM, Bunn previously served as CIO at the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. After the show, we spent some more time talking about the mission of NACD and her advice to CIOs and CISOs who aspire to join a board.

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APRIL 28, 2023

. “VCs refer us into their portfolios because they understand the value/upside we create and we do a lot to educate their whole portfolio,” Hamilton told GeekWire. His role at Portland Seed Fund is being funded by nonprofit Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network Catalyst, the Portland Business Journal reported.

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JUNE 20, 2023

University of Washington Photo) Ali Farhadi , a computer vision specialist and startup founder who most recently led Apple’s machine learning initiatives, will rejoin the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) as the second chief executive officer in the non-profit research organization’s history.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This includes making course content more relevant, improving the educational and cultural climate in classrooms, and restructuring entry-level tech classes to make them more inclusive and less forbidding, notes the Association for Women in Science , a professional organization for women who work in STEM jobs.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When COVID-19 served up a global crisis that threatened to sink his startup, Keenan O’Leary shifted his plans to help address another emergency: widespread homelessness. “We were looking for a way to not waste the work we had put in,” O’Leary said. GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler). Travel rapidly dried up.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Jones was one of the four founding employees when the nonprofit got off the ground as the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and became its first CEO in 2010. “Allan shared that vision from the beginning and brought many years of consistent and strong leadership, for which we are all extremely grateful. . ” Allan Jones.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Some advocates have argued that connecting hard-to-reach communities will require treating broadband as an essential public good similar to electricity — and empowering port districts and public utility districts to serve households directly. Because without that, even though we are going to have $1.2

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Explaining why, she told the Guardian , “These are the people who could actually pause it if they wanted to. We need to look beyond technical fixes for social problems,” Whittaker said in 2019. “We We need to look beyond technical fixes for social problems,” Whittaker said in 2019. “We We need to ask: Who has power?

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JUNE 4, 2020

has been providing meals for people in the community who are in need. COVID-19 has ravaged the economy and unraveled social safety nets that provide meals for people who are hungry. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Hoang, who leads Taylor Hoang Restaurants, has been advising FoodPair and supports the concept.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In June, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it hired Angela Jones , the well-regarded CEO of Washington STEM , the statewide education nonprofit that connects underserved students with STEM education and opportunities. “But we had to apply for it,” she added. And it will continue to do so. ”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Scott, who does not have an official foundation dispersing funds, announced the grants in a short Medium post. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett — who created The Giving Pledge alongside Melinda French Gates more than a decade ago — are currently worth more than $100 billion each, a doubling of their net worth since 2010.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2021

Over the years, GeekWire has highlighted so many of the tireless folks who are nurturing the next generation of geeks. And this year we’re excited to announce a new award to recognize a select group of the Pacific Northwest’s top teachers. The organization serves 60 U.S. I saw a different side of STEM.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

McCay spent 25 years at Hitachi Data Systems, serving as SVP of global product strategy for nine years and as SVP of global solution sales for three years. “Ray’s appointment is an important step for Cyemptive as we scale up the company and build infrastructure,” said the startup’s founder and CEO Rob Pike.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19 testing. The nonprofit uses machine learning to analyze thousands of photos of test results to automate the interpretation results. “We will never have free massages or free lunches.

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JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Freshpixel Illustration via Bigstock) Will artificial intelligence serve humanity — or will it spawn a new species of conscious digital beings with their own agenda? The same question has also been lurking behind the OpenAI leadership struggle — in which CEO Sam Altman won out over the nonprofit board members who fired him a week earlier.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Explaining why, she told the Guardian , “These are the people who could actually pause it if they wanted to. We need to look beyond technical fixes for social problems,” Whittaker said in 2019. “We We need to look beyond technical fixes for social problems,” Whittaker said in 2019. “We We need to ask: Who has power?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We want students to be aware of us as an employer, and we want to have a diverse workforce,” says NCDIT HR DirectorJoey Harrison. We looked at our diversity and decided to make improvements; internships help support that,” he says. Such figures, Harrison and others say, are why they’re building connections with HBCUs. “We

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2024

DemocracyLab , a “tech for good” nonprofit, ran the hackathon, which had support from the National Science Foundation LEAP-HI project , and the UW’s Department of Urban Design and Planning. I’m always thinking about how we can ‘do planning’ better,” he said. “[A A hackathon] is a new and adaptable tool for planning.”

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual guide for recommended animal charities, and it just released its list for this year. How can we safely and sustainably help them? Disclosure: ACE helped fund some of Future Perfect ’s work in 2020, 2021, and 2022.) What is the quality of their lives like in the wild?

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GeekWire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Walker Macy Image) “Having lived in Seattle for more than three decades, I know we thrive on being so close to nature,” said French Gates, whose gift is personal and not affiliated with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or her company, Pivotal Ventures, according to The Seattle Times.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox have secured a victory in their legal fight against Locast, a nonprofit that re-streams their local broadcast stations at little to no cost, much to the consternation of those networks. But if you currently contribute, we humbly request that you continue to do so.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on women and minority founders. “The challenge is that we’re not seeing them being funded in the way that it should.” “What LinkedIn did for professional recruitment, we are doing the same thing for youth recruitment,” Gupta said.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CIT President and CEO Pete Jobse said, “We are excited to welcome Robert to our MACH37™ team. His experience in the information security industry will be highly valuable as we move forward with the first cohort session.”. He has previously served as Chief Strategy and Security Officer at WiTopia, Inc.,

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Numerous organizations and initiatives are trying to plug these holes for students who are coming up on the one-year mark since schools turned to remote teaching. If we wait to act, she said, “we will forget the pain of this moment and it will seem less important to prepare for the next time.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It would be hard to come up with a quirkier résumé than the one put together by Justin Sun , the 31-year-old crypto pioneer who put in the winning bid. He’s a Chinese-born entrepreneur who founded the Tron cryptocurrency platform and serves as the CEO of Rainberry Inc., We are entering the era of great spaceflight.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2021

“We intend to have two more flights in 2021, for a total of three flights, and many more in the future,” Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin’s director of astronaut sales, said today during a press briefing conducted at the company’s suborbital launch site in West Texas. “Generally, there’s really high interest.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information ( see our recap here ). Who's right? At @USGIF #DataAnalytics @FCC_CIO notes jobs where algorithms can replace humans: grading papers, filtering job candidates, serving on board.

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Vox

MARCH 27, 2021

The saga is another flashpoint in the debate over the proper role of billionaire philanthropists — and their affiliated nonprofits — in society. And Ronen believes that the group may have loyalties to activists who push for school privatization and charters schools, which are lightning rod issues in urban education policy.

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