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Seattle startups among winners in BECU and CoMotion fintech incubator competition

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Here’s more info about the winning startups: My Financial Therapist , based in Seattle, is developing an AI-powered app that creates personalized roadmaps and insights to help individuals, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and enterprises “meet their financial goals and improve financial literacy.”

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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

CIO Business Intelligence

One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure. Those food banks also have varying levels of technology acumen.

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Junior Geek of the Month: Mona Li empowered girls in high school and seeks similar path in college

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Bank of America recognized that leadership this past summer by selecting Li as one of hundreds of Student Leaders for 2021, a program that helps prepare young people to enter the workforce through hands-on skill- building and leadership development. “My work with Treehouse this summer was so impactful,” Li said.

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Jeff Bezos may leave Seattle ‘a piece of my heart’ but some hope for a slice of his future philanthropy

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” – 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.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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Two efforts fill surprising tech gap between restaurants, donors and those who are hungry

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But as Hoang was managing employee furloughs, she also wanted to meet the calls for help from local food banks. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Dyce discovered Off Their Plate, a nonprofit that uses donations to pay restaurants to prepare meals, while browsing Instagram. Serving up smarter logistics.

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How a Seattle fintech entrepreneur built a network of support through multiple organizations

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. “Finding the right people to invest or mentor you is difficult in the best of circumstances,” said Nate Derby, CEO and chief data scientist for Stakana Analytics , a marketing analytics company for credit unions and community banks.

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