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Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

GeekWire

GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The program is conducted virtually through video conferences. Close to 6,000 students from 100 countries are in the program, with about one-quarter in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact

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The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. Dungeons & Dragons dice come in odd shapes and sizes.

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Ada Developers Academy: A no-cost career program that aims to diversify IT

CIO Business Intelligence

After connecting with a former Adie — the nickname for students in the program — and confirming the program was indeed real, Burrows says she “couldn’t wait to apply.”. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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14 organizations that support LGBTQ+ tech workers

CIO Business Intelligence

LGBTQ Tech LGBTQ Tech offers programs and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities and works to “educate organizations and policy makers on the unique needs LGBTQ+ individuals face when it comes to tech.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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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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WiCyS Launches Workforce Inclusion Workshops

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Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), a national nonprofit and SecureWorld association partner, has announced a first of its kind study to help understand why women in cybersecurity are not being accurately represented and the potential changes that need to happen to evolve this.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. While the majority of the group exists online, you can attend an annual conference in London to meet with other Ada’s List members in person.

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