GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Even though employees could donate to any eligible US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the late 1990s, the money was still processed by United Way and employees paid a pass-through fee. Employees expected their entire donation to go directly to the nonprofit of their choice and not to have to pay this fee.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He also led Seattle-based microfinance nonprofit Vittana. Founded in 2013, Kirkland, Wash.-based He is also an advisor for nonprofits and educational organizations. Health insurance provider Regence BlueShield named Melissa Powell as VP of network management, responsible for partnerships with Washington state providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Ada Developers Academy, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit coding school for women and gender-expansive adults — and it’s completely free. I am, and have always been, blown away by what Ada can offer students as a nonprofit organization,” she says. A no-cost academy with a mission. This amount of support really surprised me.

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CTOvision

MARCH 7, 2014

Formerly research director at the National Security Agency (NSA), Chang joined SMU in fall 2013 as the inaugural Bobby B. Deason’s gift provides a $5 million endowment, as well as $1.25 million in operational funding, for the new institute, headed by renowned cyber security expert Frederick R. The gift provides another $1.5

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Auth0 was co-founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace , who formerly ran the patterns and practices group at Microsoft, and Matias Woloski , a software engineer who remains the company’s CTO. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab, Vikram Iyer is using tiny tech to solve big problems.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More recently, telecoms have partnered with AR companies like the Chinese startup Nreal, hoping high-bandwidth holograms will create a demand for 5G networks. Google refused to approve facial recognition apps in its 2013 Glass Explorer Edition headset, although one unofficial app raised lawmakers’ ire by trying it.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. More than a third of the 796 “cyber incidents” reported to the Department of Homeland Security between 2013 and 2015 took place in the energy sector.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Ethereum network, on which many DAOs run, describes them as “a safe way to collaborate with internet strangers.” As best as I understand it, there is a Singapore-based nonprofit company named True Names Limited that leads and supports ENS. Anyway, on November 1st, a few months after I had acquired my.eth names, ENS announced a DAO.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Department of Energy’s broad network of government-funded research institutions across the country, PNNL’s research on national security and energy is worthy of recognition. Founded in Boston in 2000, the nonprofit training program launched in the Puget Sound region in 2011 with a mission to “close the opportunity divide.”

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” It was a swipe app with a simple sign-up process, which connected users via their Facebook profiles, creating a “friends of friends” dating network.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

An advertiser boycott of Facebook and other social networks this month , along with a difficult civil rights audit of the company , have brought further scrutiny to the issue. Since 2013, the project of improving Facebook’s diversity and inclusion efforts has been led by Maxine Williams. Women now make up 24.1%

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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2021

The legislation “prioritizes support for broadband networks owned, operated by, or affiliated with local governments, non-profits, and co-operatives — providers with less pressure to turn profits and with a commitment to serving entire communities.” Scattered attempts in other Washington cities have had mixed results.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Some researchers have found, for instance, that Angelina Jolie’s 2013 op-ed about getting a preventive double mastectomy might have boosted genetic testing that could indicate future breast cancer. The council, which operates as a nonprofit trade organization, has already created an online resource center.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Governing. ?

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Vox

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Researchers say a growing network of Spanish-language political news influencers, including Aliesky Rodriguez, Eduardo Menoni, and John Acquaviva, have built devoted followings on social media through US political commentary oriented to a Latino audience — much of it rife with misinformation or misleading narratives.

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2024

Disclosure: I worked on the issue on and off from 2012 to 2017 at animal welfare nonprofits prior to joining Vox.) The share of hens raised cage-free has grown by about 5 percent each year since 2019, but I’m going to predict we’ll see a slightly bigger percentage growth — 6 percent — in 2023 for two reasons.

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