GeekWire
AUGUST 22, 2020
The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. It seems, instead, that they shook their die and rolled a virtual 20.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Schwartz previously founded and led Pathable, a Seattle startup that built mobile apps for conferences and pivoted during the pandemic to focus on virtual events before getting acquired in 2020. Dr. Sunita Mishra , chief medical officer of Amazon Health Services , joined the board of URAC , a healthcare accreditation nonprofit.
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GeekWire
MARCH 26, 2024
Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.
GeekWire
APRIL 22, 2021
On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. The nonprofit program provides six months of classroom training followed by a five-month internship at one of its corporate partners. Our readers’ votes will be factored in with feedback from more than 20 judges. iUrban Teen.
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.
GeekWire
JUNE 18, 2020
The space entrepreneurs who planned to send passengers ballooning into the stratosphere for astronaut’s-eye views of the Earth below, way back in 2013, have revived the idea for a new venture called Space Perspective. Since 2013, World View has pivoted to sending up uncrewed payloads on balloon platforms known as Stratollites.
GeekWire
JULY 24, 2020
We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. 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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