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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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Our buildings are making us sick

Vox

Meanwhile, the global energy crisis of the 1970s incentivized architects and engineers to design buildings that were increasingly airtight — why pay money to heat a building just to see that heat escape out a crack around a window? That, in turn, required new approaches to controlling their interior climates. It’s definitely an equity issue”.

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GeekWire interview: Seattle mayoral candidates on tech, talent, taxes, startups, homelessness, and favorite apps

GeekWire

I thought it required 12% of the general (budget) to be used for homelessness. My wife and I together — she used to be the CEO and president of United Way — we spend time in the philanthropic community, in the nonprofit worlds, doing everything we can to help people who are poor, and who do not have the opportunity. Mac or PC? .

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