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Amazon keeps fueling philanthropic efforts under leadership of former nonprofit executive

GeekWire

We’re visible and becoming more visible.” – Alice Shobe, global director of Amazon in the Community Shobe, a long-time nonprofit leader with expertise in low-income housing, was hired in 2017 to launch Amazon in the Community, which marked a significant step philanthropically for the company. We’re out there.

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Nonprofit supported by Paul Allen’s foundation studies link between lynx and burned habitats

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(Bigstock Photo) A wildlife research nonprofit backed by the Paul G. Home Range Wildlife Research is a nonprofit that conducts research, offers field training for biologists, and works with local communities to connect them with their landscape. The nonprofit has funding for four collars and is working to raise more, Vanbianchi said.

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Tech Moves: Avalara names president; Microsoft vet launches AI forum; Common Room adds product leader

GeekWire

It plans to host events, provide an advisory service, and launch a nonprofit dedicated to responsible AI regulation. After leaving Microsoft in 2016, Weitz joined e-commerce company Radial as an executive vice president. He later launched Jetson , a startup developing probiotics, and was its CEO. Jetson shut down in January.

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New platform from nonprofit Carina offers quick searches for in-home childcare openings

GeekWire

Launched in 2016, Carina is an online platform for connecting in-home care providers with seniors and people with disabilities receiving Medicaid who need assistance. Pivotal Labs, working through its Pivotal Act program that benefits nonprofits, provided two months of free engineering for the project. Carina Photo).

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Tech Moves: Qumulo co-founder returns; Allen Institute adds execs; and more

GeekWire

Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder. Passey left the company in August 2016 and later spent four years as principal engineer at Dropbox.

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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

GeekWire

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepts the Next Tech Titan award at the GeekWire Awards in 2016. The company, founded in 2016, touts more than 82 million lifetime users. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.

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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

Vox

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.