GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Seattle nonprofit, which aims to teach computer science to every child in America, is rolling out new AI curriculum with help from Microsoft, which donated $7.5 It previously collaborated on Minecraft adventures for the nonprofit’s annual Hour of Code event. (Bigstock Photo). million to the initiative.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. Then submit your votes below , grab your tickets and keep reading to learn more about these worthy finalists.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2023

RELATED: Seattle Schools vs. Social Media: What’s at stake in the suit against TikTok, Instagram, and others. Colleges and universities are more reluctant to ban ChatGPT, The New York Times reported on Monday, and professors are instead changing their courses in response.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

I’ve been leading the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab here for the last few years, and we do a lot of infrastructure development and data management training, massive online open courses on Coursera. Leek: People who take massive online open courses are already well educated, like master’s level people trying to change careers.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Unless, of course, they actually hadn’t stopped. Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But the rest of it?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even though the economic flywheel has provided jobs and created wealth for spending and investment in leading tech cities, it has not solved the social challenges of homelessness, inadequate education, public safety, and transportation. Of course, it was never this tidy. Copyright 2021, Columbia University Press.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit that owns a for-profit arm with “capped” profits : First-round investors would stop earning after their shares multiply in value a hundredfold , with profits beyond that going into OpenAI’s nonprofit. (How much teeth the board has had in practice is debatable.)

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on women and minority founders. The company aims to scale through a digital course and by licensing its intellectual property, Pham said. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Open up your networks. Reetu Gupta.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2022

The 7 th congressional district Democrat from Washington state once worked at Seattle global health nonprofit PATH, where she wielded her MBA to direct its technology transfer fund. But of course, we have made enormous progress in the last year with vaccines, with boosters. Congress and Washington Dept. of Health Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

As a critical part of the governance ecosystem, we impact the economy, social welfare, and all of those people who rely on these organizations to deliver the outcomes they need. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board. Investors rely on the board to ensure they get the return they expect.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2024

He ultimately decided to chart his own path in the field — initially founding a nonprofit called Equitable College Counseling before founding EdXeno. His brother, Joel, was struggling at the time with issues including alcohol and the lingering effects of social isolation from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. At the same time, connecting with people working remotely in Spokane can be hit and miss, said Megan Hulsey , a Spokane-based vice president and business lender with Craft3 , a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

. “There are so many cool Holiday 2021 consumer tech innovations out there, but this year — perhaps more than any other year — the best tech gifts I’ve seen are gifts of both tech devices and tech education to students and families who otherwise would not have access (including those who have been displaced over the course of the pandemic).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2022

This quaint excess of modesty about your career accomplishments might seem like an endearing trait—a refreshing lack of vanity in a world awash in social media noise. The most visible of those three is, of course, your LinkedIn profile. based), this Microsoft-owned social network dominates the business landscape. “No

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Ada Developers Academy, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit coding school for women and gender-expansive adults — and it’s completely free.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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Vox

MARCH 24, 2022

They announced the project on March 9 with an Instagram Live, along with a website that provided all the details, social media accounts, and a Discord channel. Another 5 percent would go to nature nonprofits to offset the environmental cost of minting the NFTs. But it would go back into it. It’s not my nature — on the track, yes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. These 10 cities are the fastest growing tech hubs by salary, according to Dice.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Waymo only reported 21 disengagements over the course of the year, or a rate of 0.033 disengagements per 1,000 miles. Waymo followed suit , resuming limited operations in June delivering packages for two Bay Area nonprofits. That’s an improvement over the company’s rate of 0.076 per 1,000 self-driven miles in 2019.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated. Now, Facebook says it wants to change course.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

” In her role as CEO for Washington STEM , a nonprofit that promotes science and engineering education and careers through advocacy and coalition building, Jones sits at a hub at the center of many of today’s challenging and often emotionally charged issues. Your preferred social network?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Chung developed the curriculum and conducted training for the government’s in-house futures course, Futurecraft. She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan. Location: Beijing, China.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2024

hours a day staring into their cellphone , according to Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs an ongoing survey into global mental health. The Salmon’s waters were emerald green and primordial, coursing over Volkswagen Beetle-size boulders. The average 12-year-old spends 5.3 We pulled her out again.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2022

“We are overwhelmed by the outreach and support from the community and of course excited to have two sold out events to contribute to the startup costs for the museum,” said Peter Hamilton, longtime Seattle tech exec who helped launch the museum with startup leader Jennifer Wong. Blake Kathryn: Absolutely valid concerns.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2021

She is the founding senior strategist for BoardReady , a nonprofit providing board diversity analytics and that helps match companies with diverse directors. “Of course, we all do.”. With Andy Jassy taking over as CEO this week and joining the board , Amazon’s diversity percentages slipped further. ” asked Lepore.

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Vox

JUNE 17, 2022

This week, the Markup, a nonprofit news outlet that covers technology’s harms, has been publishing the latest findings of its investigation into Meta’s Pixels, which are pieces of code developers can embed on websites to track their visitors. This means placing some trust in Meta that its privacy tools do what it claims they do.

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Vox

JUNE 24, 2020

For most people, Instagram has long been the social media platform where they escape from the real world — and politics — to share a curated highlight reel of their lives. Of course, political activism on social media platforms, including Instagram, isn’t new. Zac Freeland/Vox. But recently, that’s changed.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

Cole took an intensive, year-long course in IT and began working in what was then called information architecture. Outside of work, Cole is the founder of Girls Can Do , a nonprofit that hosts events akin to “TED Talks for girls,” particularly girls from racially diverse and low-income families. is my typically weekday.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Growing up as one of the only Black students in his schools, Peter Beasley felt accepted by his peers and didn’t experience a sense of being different as he set his own course for advancement. Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.”

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Of course, it’s easy to laugh at some of the puritanical content guidelines TikTok has established.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

A lot of charities and nonprofit organizations aren’t set up yet to do peer-to-peer fundraising for a variety of reasons — some, for example, would rather rely on recurring donations, and others just aren’t aware that Twitch and other live-streaming sites can be a reliable source of income. Collect receipts. Don’t be a scammer.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

The CommonPass was launched by the Commons Project, a nonprofit initiative that focuses on digital health. For example, one privacy advocate told the Washington Post it took him just 11 minutes to create a fake Excelsior Pass by looking up someone else’s details on social media. Will vaccine passports help the world “reopen”?

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