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New platform from nonprofit Carina offers quick searches for in-home childcare openings

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“This is a crisis we have never seen before in childcare and school support,” said Shauna Causey, founder and CEO of Weekdays, in a recent video-conference panel on working parents. Pivotal Labs, working through its Pivotal Act program that benefits nonprofits, provided two months of free engineering for the project.

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Univ. of Washington set to break ground on 69-acre redevelopment to create Seattle innovation hub

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Portage Bay Crossing will complement growth initiatives already underway in the area, said Don Blakeney, executive director of The U District Partnership, a nonprofit group promoting the neighborhood. “It’s The building will include conference and event spaces, and room for a restaurant and cafe.

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It’s getting harder for people to believe that Facebook is a net good for society

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Germany in 2020. This is such a profound issue for kids and teens,” said Jim Steyer, CEO and founder of the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media, which has been an advocate for studying the effects of technology on children and teens. Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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Hichert is a director of the Southern African node of the Millennium Project and helped organize the first African Futures Conference. She has authored over 60 journal articles and book chapters, many with a focus on educational futures. Professor Ivana Milojevi?

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How effective altruism let Sam Bankman-Fried happen

Vox

Journalism, as an industry, is struggling badly. Before the collapse of FTX, Bankman-Fried put millions into scientists, companies, and nonprofits working on pandemic and bioterror prevention and risks from artificial intelligence. But the honest answer to whether I regret taking the money knowing what we knew then , the answer is no.

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