GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new nonprofit is trying to keep the momentum going. Feldblum is part of the team that helped Fair Pair Workplace develop the rules and standards used to set the bar for certification. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements inspired many companies over the past year to pledge their commitment to fighting inequities.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott, left, received some funding for her nonprofit from Seattle Seahawks player Bobby Wagner, right. ” Exposure and access is something Pierott would like more of for herself, for iUrban Teen and for the work the nonprofit has been doing over the years. Photo courtesy of Deena Pierott).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

OneBusAway Image) OneBusAway , the beloved app that delivers real-time information to public transportation riders, needs help to keep the bus and train data moving on time. The nonprofit adds that additional money would help with new hires and “a long list of enhancements” that they’d love to make to apps and systems.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

And a majority of these organizations are the nonprofit associations. While for-profit companies will always be the first ones to invest in latest technologies and innovations to drive their revenue, nonprofit organizations lag behind. Although many of them have started using data management systems to manage all their data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We The nonprofit brought her onboard with a mandate to build a roadmap to drive innovation and modernize the organization’s IT footprint. We didn’t have basic things like a data warehouse.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Protheroe previously worked at the UK-based Royal College of Art as director of development and alumni relations. Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

A proposed agreement between Apple and a class-action lawsuit representing US app developers includes a $100 million payout from Apple. The change, while potentially important for developers, isn’t quite as significant as it may seem. Apple has decided to name this the “Small Developer Assistance Fund.”.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

A fertility app that helps women monitor their cycles when hoping to become pregnant was sharing user data with several Chinese companies, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Beijing-based startup provides “mobile app analytics solutions for mobile development teams and individual developers,” according to its profile on Crunchbase.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Can you deliver meaningful results on a data project within one or two quarters? That’s a requirement for nearly any initiative undertaken by Petco Chief Data and Analytics Officer Rakesh Srinivasan, who invests the talent and resources to achieve results quickly.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2014

On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Dr. Bray framed data analytics within a larger discussion of public service. " – Dr.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2023

Here’s more info about the winning startups: My Financial Therapist , based in Seattle, is developing an AI-powered app that creates personalized roadmaps and insights to help individuals, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and enterprises “meet their financial goals and improve financial literacy.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” 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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Vox

JUNE 17, 2022

The Pixel tracking system collects and sends site visitor data to Meta, and Meta can match this to a user’s profile on Facebook or Instagram. You can’t see them, but Meta’s trackers are embedded in millions of websites all over the internet, collecting data about where you go and what you do and sending it back to Meta.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Digital libraries are the result of the commingling of several disciplines, including data management, document management, library science, image processing, information systems, AI, and human-computer interaction. Nonprofits have tremendous amounts of sensitive data exclusive to member communities, financial information, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2021

Seattle-based health data company Truveta today announced $95 million in fresh funding and the addition of three new participating healthcare systems, bringing its total to 17. Truveta last year began an ambitious mission to aggregate medical records data from its partner institutions to link treatments with outcomes and underlying health.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2016

Even though half of the in-house counsel report that their companies have increased their spending on cybersecurity, the report shows that many organizations are not taking basic precautions to prevent a data breach. The State of Cyber Security Report addresses: One-third of in-house counsel have experienced a data breach.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. 2014 Data Impact Awards. That’s precisely what the annual Data Impact Awards, presented by Cloudera, are for.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Minding the workforce gap Supporting women through all stages in their learning and career development can help reduce this gap. Synchrony, for example, partners with Girls Who Code , an international nonprofit organization that helps support and increase the number of women in computer science. Launched a Veterans Leadership Program.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

The core issue relates to WhatsApp’s data-sharing procedures with Facebook, with many users concerned an updated privacy policy going into effect on February 8th will mandate sharing of sensitive profile information with WhatsApp’s parent company. We’re committed to this technology and committed to defending it globally,” Cathcart wrote.

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GeekWire

APRIL 25, 2021

As the numbers grow, an effort by global health nonprofit PATH is helping to make sure that the most worrisome variants aren’t able to avoid detection. PATH researchers have manually collected data on hundreds of tests from dozens of manufacturers, making it easier for people to evaluate the available diagnostic tools.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions. 2014 Data Impact Awards. That’s precisely what the annual Data Impact Awards, presented by Cloudera, are for. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. By Bob Gourley.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2023

This is a significant problem because sharing data between clinical systems and providing patients with easy access to their information enables them to make better-informed decisions and, subsequently, supports improving the quality and timeliness of care.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2024

But according to data from a survey from Women Tech Network , women earn around $15,000 less per year than their male counterparts, with an average annual salary of $60,828 for women compared to $85,000 for men. Telle Whitney in 1994 and is now the world’s “largest gathering of women technologists,” according to the event website.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications. Bamboo previously offered voice-based apps for Amazon’s Alexa devices.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

“The Initiative for Molecular and Genomic Evaluation of Cancer”: The initiative will focus on the collection and analysis of genetic, clinical and molecular data to better understand tumors at a cellular level. Swedish Health Services, which is part of Providence, is the largest nonprofit health provider in the Seattle area.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

So Hutchins launched Certifi AI , a Seattle startup that is developing technology to identify and hopefully reduce the harm to girls and women who are targeted by deepfake bad actors. The other two co-founders are the chief technology officer and lead data architect, both of whom also hold 9-to-5 jobs. Her motivation is personal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. It’s an opportunity to create more efficiencies and solutions by working and developing together,” says Manos.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Short of that, she’s working on turning a different kind of superhuman power into reality: using AI and machine learning to tackle climate change through her global nonprofit, Climate Change AI (CCAI). CCAI is developing AI to supplement, not replace, other approaches. That realization was the spark for her current work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer. Ada’s List.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Benefits of Salesforce certifications Salesforce jobs range from the technical (architects, developers, implementation experts) to those related to marketing and sales. According to a study by Indeed.com , 70% of Salesforce developers in the US are satisfied with their salaries given the cost of living in their area.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Agency for International Development and includes researchers at the University of Washington and the Seattle-based nonprofit PATH. Part of this will be developing some of those algorithms and the data analysis to try and be more predictive about those that have potential for spillover into the human population,” said Kawula.

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