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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. The program costs $5,000 to $20,000, depending on company size. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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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. ” (UW Image). Rendering of the new building site, viewed from the Burke-Gilman Trail.

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Amazon donates $1.5M to support Seattle-area hunger relief efforts through four organizations

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A rendering of the new Ballard Food Bank under construction in Seattle. The food bank will use $500,000 toward its “Hope Beyond Hunger” capital campaign to support the construction and opening of its new home, set to open this fall. Ballard Food Bank Image). Amazon announced Tuesday that it is donating more than $1.5

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Amazon is helping a longtime Seattle art school move into modern space at base of HQ building

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Gage, a nearly 35-year-old nonprofit, currently occupies space in the St. million in rent assistance over the next 10 years, and offset a significant portion of the cost of construction and space improvement, according to a news release on Thursday. Nicholas Building next to St. Mark’s Cathedral.

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

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The project includes the Brightwork building, shown at the park’s northern edge, which the UW hopes will start construction this year. (UW Despite the ongoing legal issues, the UW and Wexford remain hopeful they will be able to start construction in early 2024. Brightwork is expected to take roughly two years to build.

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

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While the homelessness-related fund has publicly issued four rounds of grants, little has been said about the schools program. While CEO of Amazon, Bezos established a strong relationship with Mary’s Place, a Seattle nonprofit that works with women and families experiencing homelessness.

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