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

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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is launching a free online learning program designed to help small businesses gain the necessary skills to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Called BackTo.Biz , the program was created alongside CreativeLive, the Seattle-based makers of online learning resources. GeekWire File Photo).

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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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Techstars announced one month later that it was shutting down the Seattle program. Techstars said in February that Ciocirlan would become managing director for the remote-first Techstars Anywhere program. More than 160 startups participated in the core Techstars Seattle accelerator since it launched in 2010. Sarah Studer.

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It’s a date! Comedian Pete Davidson will headline Blue Origin suborbital space trip next week

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Sharon Hagle , the founder of SpaceKids Global, a nonprofit organization focusing on STEAM+ education, with a special emphasis on empowering girls. SpaceKids participates in the Postcards to Space program led by the Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s educational foundation. Marc and Sharon Hagle are husband and wife.

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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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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.

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Blue Origin’s space shots give tiny Texas town a boost that’s bigger than expected

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VAN HORN, Texas — When I last visited this West Texas town in 2006, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture was planning to provide suborbital space trips for paying passengers by 2010. The bad news for Van Horn is that it’s taken a decade longer than expected for Blue Origin’s space boom to come to town.

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Facebook buys REI’s new HQ for $367M, expanding Seattle-area footprint beyond 3M square feet

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REI said today that the sale “represents a positive return on the co-op’s investment in the property and will enable important investments in REI’s customer-facing innovations, its nonprofit partners and carbon reduction goals.” ” REI paid nearly $50 million for the property in 2017. GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy).