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Microsoft’s new chief sustainability officer will draw on skills from White House, VC and law background

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Department of State and working as an attorney for the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council. Partner with governments, businesses and nonprofits to support climate policy, data, accounting, job skills and other efforts. The roles will be similar, according the company, despite the title change.

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Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos unveil $30M gender equality initiative

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It is part of a broader $1 billion equality initiative from Pivotal Ventures, the nonprofit launched by Gates in 2015. Bill and Melinda Gates formed The Giving Pledge with Warren Buffett in 2010. The initiative will be administered by Lever for Change, a nonprofit affiliate of the MacArthur Foundation.

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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

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Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Moves: Former Chef CEO joins Buildkite board; Salesforce hires Code.org exec

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Buildkite also appointed two other new board members: Adam Gross , the San Francisco-based former CEO of Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2010, and Michelle Deaker , the Sydney-based managing partner at OneVentures. Crist is now based in Lopez Island, Wash. She stepped down in 2020.

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Government Employees and Contractors: Attend 10 Apr Dialog With @LorenSiebert on Open Source DigitalGov Search Tech

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Here are some details and instructions on how to register: Open source search technology has improved rapidly in recent years just as private companies, government agencies, and the nonprofit sector are realizing they have a search problem. It’s no longer enough to make our government data available for simple browsing or downloads.

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Howard Schultz funding online learning program for small businesses using CreativeLive platform

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” Schultz has teamed with a number of business leaders and nonprofits to raise awareness of the program, including Starbucks, Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce, Chase and more. That’s why I believe this COVID-recovery platform is critical.”

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MacKenzie Scott says she’s given away nearly $2B to 343 organizations over past 7 months

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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. Scott was worth an estimated $37 billion a few months after her divorce was announced.