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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 and Nashville, Tenn.

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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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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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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet four inspiring organizations using tech for good

GeekWire

The nonprofit has multiple programs including: Designated “anchor communities” in which they form coalitions of organizations that interact with homeless youth to coordinate their outreach efforts. . Brilliant Black Minds is a program targeting the middle of the pipeline: prep for engineering job interviews.

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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

Due to both internal and external pressure for directing maximum funding to their program work, non-profit associations generally tend to underinvest in technology. Program evaluation. Use of online banking services. With the world moving to online banking, it is time non-profit associations make the shift as well.

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

GeekWire

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.