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Seattle tech vet applies design, communications experience in seeking safer city streets

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Josh Holland of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways on Rainier Avenue South in Seattle with one of the signs the nonprofit made calling attention to car-related fatalities. At right is a map showing all of the memorial sites around the city. These tragedies are preventable.”

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Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew

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Kennedy to enter an Air Force flight training program that was regarded as a pathway to NASA’s astronaut corps, and went on to win an Air Force recommendation to join NASA. In 2001, Hess founded Science Buddies , a K-12 nonprofit that’s based in California and focuses on STEM literacy. with her husband of 40 years.

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Diversity-focused school Ada Developers Academy cuts 45% of staff amid tech industry hiring pullback

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(Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday. “But we are no strangers to being knocked down or kept out of the industry.”

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Ada Developers Academy ‘significantly’ reduces headcount, pauses admissions, names interim CEO

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The nonprofit cut 45% of its workforce in May, impacting about 34 of 76 employees at the time. Photo via PR Log) Shawna Young , a longtime leader in nonprofits, education and business development, has been appointed interim CEO, effective Sept. It became a project of fiscal sponsor TSNE Mission Works of Boston in 2015.

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

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Piskel joined the Seattle-based biotech company in 2015 and was most recently principal accounting officer. 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. Sarah Studer.

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Ada Developers Academy going independent in hopes of expanding its tech diversity impact

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Ada announced Monday that it is growing at a scale where it will serve more students, expand its impact and implement new support for programs. Its program provides six months of classroom training followed by a five-month internship at one of its corporate partners. Becoming a national organization.

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ACC Foundation Releases Extensive State of Cybersecurity Report

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Among in-house counsel whose companies experienced a breach, 47% said it had occurred in 2014 or 2015. Find out more information on 2015 State of Cybersecurity Report , please visit: www.acc-foundation.com/foundation/sr/. PPL forms program for nonprofit groups (republicanherald.com). About the ACC Foundation.

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