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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

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The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute , a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation , in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR , which stands for “Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery.”

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Is your company offering fair pay? New nonprofit certifies those with nondiscriminatory wages

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A new nonprofit is trying to keep the momentum going. The organization has created an independent, transparent program for certifying companies that are undoing pay disparities among the ranks of their employees. But now that the streets are largely emptied of protestors and marches, some are left wondering what has changed.

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Univ. of Washington science programs to be housed in new building that includes public, private tenants

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The west part of the UW campus, envisioned as an area for collaboration among various business and nonprofit organizations, has been dubbed “Portage Bay Crossing.” The plans show construction beginning in early 2023. A spokesperson called the arrangement a “newer approach to development for the UW.”.

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

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An view from the south of the proposed green space expansion within the University of Washington’s planned Portage Bay Crossing development. The project includes the Brightwork building, shown at the park’s northern edge, which the UW hopes will start construction this year. (UW

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work. The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Blues previously raised $11 million in April 2020.

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Benefits of a Digital Library for Associations and Non-Profit Organizations

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This has brought about a sea of change in the process of collection development, their organization, and accessibility, and organizations are increasingly trying to capitalize on this development for business purposes. Here are 6 Reasons Why Associations & Nonprofits Need a Digital Archive. Maintain a Database of Records.

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Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund awards $96M in grants to 32 organizations helping homeless families

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The Day 1 Families Fund is part of the two-pronged, $2 billion “Bezos Day One Fund” that has a separate track focused on developing Montessori-inspired preschool education. While the homelessness-related fund has publicly issued four rounds of grants, little has been said about the schools program.

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