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$10B Bezos Earth Fund hires a long-time global leader on climate issues as president and CEO

GeekWire

The organization noted that during his tenure the organization, whose reach spans more than 60 countries, grew its staff five-fold and its budget quadrupled between 2012 and 2021. The nonprofit appears to be an organization that approaches its environmental challenges in a manner that could align with Bezos’ management values.

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Thursday, October 18, 2012. Developers Can Create, Deploy and Publish Apps in the Cloud for Free. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations.

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How Melinda French Gates’ fortune has ‘transformational potential’ to boost women’s equity

GeekWire

The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019. But in 2012 French Gates, herself a Catholic, returned to contraceptives. ” But even with the Gates Foundation’s efforts, philanthropic support for women-focused nonprofits still lags behind other areas. Ada Photo).

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

I did YC in 2007, and then again in 2012. And I am part of the safety net of my extended family — when people need money, they come to me. I thought, look, if you get a job at Facebook, that’s your safety net. Nonprofits can do that. I’d be like, “Hey, we changed our community for the better.” You know what’s interesting?

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She has worked on projects about diverse issues such as water security, the future of energy, the future of youth, intelligent buildings, the development of cities over the next few decades, and planning for Egypt in 2030. Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft.

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24 things we think will happen in 2024

Vox

A better approach than using polling is to reference some of the forecasting models political scientists have developed for predicting elections in advance. Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.)

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