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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.) Now there’s news that the competition for tech workers may heat up even more this year.

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Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund awards $96M in grants to 32 organizations helping homeless families

GeekWire

Some 11,751 people in Seattle and surrounding King County were experiencing homelessness during a 2020 survey. Bezos’ net worth since launching his fund has increased from $160 billion to more than $200 billion today, according to Forbes. million for Portland Homeless Family Solutions, Portland.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Gen Z just wants a stable job

Vox

“I remember driving through the neighborhood seeing people who had been evicted and all their stuff on the lawn,” said Mary Miller, a recent global studies graduate who has secured a job as a public engagement coordinator at a nonprofit. “It It was kind of scary as a kid.” What job market is the class of 2023 entering?

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

The growing size and reach of the “everything store,” however, has affected its public perception: A 2019 CNBC survey of 10,000 Americans showed that a majority of respondents believed the company was bad for small businesses. Applying for a grant can often be a long, burdensome process for nonprofits. billion since its launch.

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

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. I think one of the fun things about YC is that between every batch, we survey our founders, and we ask ourselves, “How do we make the damn thing better?”.

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Revolt of the delivery workers

The Verge

Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. As contractors and, often, undocumented immigrants, they have few protections and virtually no safety net. Anthony Chavez delivers an ice cream during Hurricane Ida. About 30 percent of those thefts were violent.

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