GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Families Fund is part of a $2 billion Bezos Day One Fund created by Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos in 2018. of his wealth, to Washington nonprofits. This is the sixth round of grants, bringing the total awarded to $639 million. It includes a second program operating free Montessori preschools. million, or less than 0.1%

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits. .” among other nonprofits.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2023

The partnership launched in 2018 and has hosted 15 startups since its creation. Participating companies get a one-year membership to CoMotion’s Labs tech incubator at UW’s Startup Hall. They also gain access to training, events, and BECU’s networks. ” The startup is led by founder and CEO Dennis Williams.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

Prior to her current role at Alphabet, Thuener worked for Google as its chief accountant from 2013 to 2018. She is also co-chair of Girls Leadership, a nonprofit that serves girls in grades K-12. Thuener has nearly three decades of experience in marketing and accounting.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The company previously committed $10 million to the nonprofit in 2017. Amazon’s $15 million donation will be paid over three years.

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GeekWire

JUNE 17, 2023

Paige Hendrix Buckner is the new CEO of All Raise, a nonprofit founded in 2017 that supports women founders and investors. based tech leader in April became CEO of All Raise , the San Francisco-based nonprofit founded in 2017 to help boost women and non-binary founders and funders. Paige Hendrix Buckner wants that to change.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Cambia Grove, which hosts an incubation space in Seattle, was created by Portland-based nonprofit Cambia Health Solutions , the parent company of Regence and other health-care companies. The aim is to break down the silos between healthcare startups and established market players.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2023

features an extensive collection of aviation and military artifacts and was one of numerous assets held by Allen before his death in 2018. The museum, located at Paine Field in Everett, Wash.,

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In 2018, just under half of American households did. 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.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Jeff Bezos, right, his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, third from right, and other family members at the opening of the Amazon Spheres in Seattle in January 2018. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, told GeekWire in 2018 that “Jeff has changed the world once. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2021

“We continue to harness the potential of RNA therapeutics to redefine the standard of care for genetic diseases,” said CEO and co-founder Francois Vigneault , former VP of research at Juno Therapeutics, a Seattle flagship cell therapy company that was acquired by Celgene in 2018. The financing builds on $35.5

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, launched Loon in June 2013 , and Loon “graduated” from a moonshot to an independent company within Alphabet in 2018. “In the coming months, we’ll begin winding down operations and it will no longer be an Other Bet within Alphabet.”. Loon isn’t the only moonshot that Alphabet has shut down.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

. “Despite the challenges of COVID-19, Gardner House has been able to welcome more than ninety families to their new homes, while the nonprofit organizations at the Allen Family Center quickly pivoted to delivering services virtually where needed.” The Paul G. The facility is near the Mount Baker light rail station in Seattle.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

She is the sister of Paul Allen, who died in 2018 after a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Swedish Health Services, which is part of Providence, is the largest nonprofit health provider in the Seattle area. “Paul was grateful for the care he received at Swedish over the years,” said Jody Allen, trustee of the Paul G. The Paul G.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

He previously co-founded Prevoty, which was acquired by Imperva in 2018, and led technology efforts at BBC and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Anand is the former chief technology officer and chief information security officer at Imperva, a cybersecurity company recently acquired by Thales.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. Statsig raised $43 million in 2022 from Sequoia Capital, with participation from Madrona Venture Group. The company’s total funding to date is $53 million.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

Steinglass worked for more than five years at computer science education nonprofit Code.org, most recently as its president. She was featured as a GeekWire “Working Geek” in 2018. She stepped down in 2020. Steinglass also spent more than 14 years at Microsoft, including a stint as a leader in the HoloLens Group.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Gage, a nearly 35-year-old nonprofit, currently occupies space in the St. GeekWire profiled an “Artist in Residence” working out of the company’s Doppler building as part of that program in 2018. Nicholas Building next to St. Mark’s Cathedral.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Russell WIlson and Ciara at a TraceMe event in 2018. They also run the nonprofit Why Not You Foundation. In an interview with GeekWire last year, Day said that the company designed its system to bring together affordable fashion and sustainability. GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 15, 2021

A Tri-City Herald report on the 2018 purchase of 14,500 acres of farmland in Benton County, Wash. — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a new nonprofit group a year ago focused on providing small-scale farmers in developing countries with the tools and innovations they’ll need to deal with the effects of climate change.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Scenes from the GeekWire Gala 2018 at The Showbox at the Market in downtown Seattle. If you purchase tickets this week, we will donate $5 from each ticket sold to Geeking Out Kids of Color (GOkic), a nonprofit that encourages BIPOC youth to explore technology through mentorship. The 2022 Gala returns on Dec. 7 in downtown Seattle.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2017, he solicited suggestions for philanthropic strategies — and followed up in 2018 with the unveiling of a $2 billion Day One Fund to promote innovations in preschool education and affordable housing. As Bezos’ Amazon fortune has grown, there have been growing questions about his approach to philanthropy.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2020

Date: January 22, 2018. Existing board member Leigh Morgan , chief strategy and operating officer for Seattle-based nonprofit Nia Tero , was named board vice chair. Leigh Morgan, new Fred Hutch board vice chair. Washington.

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2022

It also was set up as a nonprofit that operated like a biotech company, taking discoveries through early-stage research to manufacturing and clinical trials. Casper notes that without links to stronger institutions like universities or without deep philanthropical support, it’s hard to keep a nonprofit biomedical research institute afloat.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Quiet Sound emerged as a result of guidance from the Southern Resident Orca Task Force , established in 2018 by Washington Gov. Aronson also showcased a new app that maps the presence of whales in Puget Sound, developed by the Canadian nonprofit Ocean Wise. Jay Inslee to develop recommendations for killer whale recovery.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Then in 2018, Paul died suddenly at the age of 65, triggering a reorganization of the effort. Organizations and nonprofits must submit letters of interest by April 12, and the foundation expects to fund three to five recipients. That could include efforts such as forest protection, kelp restoration and urban tree planting.

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2020

.” Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, is chairman of the LA Clippers NBA team and founder of USAFacts , a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic data initiative. Firearm deaths are up over the last decade even when adjusted for population increases.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2023

City Light installed its first fast-charging stations in 2018. Earlier this year City Light picked 31 new sites for “ level 2 ” EV charging stations on wood poles, steel poles, and standalone pedestals.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. At the same time, connecting with people working remotely in Spokane can be hit and miss, said Megan Hulsey , a Spokane-based vice president and business lender with Craft3 , a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. Census Bureau data.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Amazon founder has given out $398 million to organizations in 38 states since launching the fund in 2018. While CEO of Amazon, Bezos established a strong relationship with Mary’s Place, a Seattle nonprofit that works with women and families experiencing homelessness. families experiencing homelessness.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s also 10 times as much as philanthropic foundations gave globally in 2018 to efforts to slow climate change. That includes the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which is led by Gina McCarthy , an Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency administrator and vocal critic of Trump’s environmental rollbacks.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The New Shepard capsule also carried 38,000 postcards that have been submitted — on paper and online — by students through a program organized by the Club for the Future , Blue Origin’s educational nonprofit group. Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, has said that she hopes to lead an all-woman space mission early next year.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, she wrote an open letter urging the company not to build warfare technology for the Department of Defense. Whittaker’s experience as an internal dissenter stretches back to her time working at Google. Some 3,000 employees signed and Google pulled out of the project.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A nonprofit called Earth Species Project , or ESP, is on a trajectory to talk with animals — but with a much higher purpose than my intended goals with Roxy. Allen, the Microsoft co-founder who passed away in 2018, was interested in both protecting wildlife and AI research. The organization recently received $1.2

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2023

The nonprofit film and education organization SIFF acquired the Cinerama from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, ending more than three years of uncertainty for the historic downtown Seattle movie theater. The sale was in line with the wishes of Allen, who died in October 2018 at the age of 65.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, she wrote an open letter urging the company not to build warfare technology for the Department of Defense. Whittaker’s experience as an internal dissenter stretches back to her time working at Google. Some 3,000 employees signed and Google pulled out of the project.

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