GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott, left, received some funding for her nonprofit from Seattle Seahawks player Bobby Wagner, right. The two are pictured with sister and brother Amiya and Clay Brasley, who both attended iUrban Teen programs. “They’re paying them that money to create inclusive programming,” Pierott said.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Delegates see Ukrainian tech expertise as a way to foster growth of the life sciences, given that big data and computational biology are increasingly central to the field. The Seattle office of the nonprofit World Affairs Council is hosting the delegates as part of the Open World Program , established in 1999 by the U.S.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This month, nearly 60 business and nonprofit leaders from the Northwest — such as Microsoft, Boeing, Expedia, Nintendo, Zillow, Vulcan, PATH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — signed on to a new coalition called Washington Employers for Racial Equity. Those pledging to do so include Intuit, Zoom and Slack.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The program’s second cohort is focusing on data in digital health care transformation. Emans was most recently CFO and treasurer for nonprofit A Place for Mom.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

-based Outlier offers an automated business analysis platform using AI and data science. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. Seattle-based product development firm Igor Institute announced three new director-level hires: Kathy Fedirchuk as director of program management.

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