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Seattle startups among winners in BECU and CoMotion fintech incubator competition

GeekWire

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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Amazon donates $1.5M to support Seattle-area hunger relief efforts through four organizations

GeekWire

A rendering of the new Ballard Food Bank under construction in Seattle. Ballard Food Bank Image). The recipients of new funding include: Ballard Food Bank : Amazon is giving the organization in the Ballard neighborhood $750,000. Amazon announced Tuesday that it is donating more than $1.5

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Half of banking customers now using fintech

Network World

Financial technology (fintech) products and services are picking up tremendous steam, particularly with younger, tech-savvy and affluent customers, according to the World FinTech Report 2017 (WFTR), recently released by Capgemini, LinkedIn and Efma (a global nonprofit organization composed of banks and insurance companies).

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

GeekWire

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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Why Should Associations Invest In Technology?

Kitaboo

Use of online banking services. With the world moving to online banking, it is time non-profit associations make the shift as well. Also Read: 6 Reasons Why Associations & Nonprofits Need a Digital Archive. Nonprofit Organizations & Associations / December 27, 2019.

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Lessons from a startup shutdown: Round CEO on building community, and the risks of raising VC

GeekWire

The company had money in the bank for runway, but ultimately decided there wasn’t a path forward. “There were times that I wish we were a nonprofit,” he said. Its community-based platform that helped tech leaders connect with one another was growing quickly, and the fresh capital would supercharge the business.

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