GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

And GeekWire is here to recognize and celebrate a select few of these groups through our Geeks Give Back Award. Ada Developers Academy. Ada Developers Academy is a Seattle-based, tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities. Female Founders Alliance (FFA).

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

(Apple Photo) First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset. We jumped back on the line with Etzioni to get the details on the new initiatives, and discuss the pros and cons of the rapid development of new generative AI tools for democracy and society.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For the past several days, Elon Musk has been engaging in a very strange feud with a leading Jewish anti-hate group. The group has criticized Twitter for its permissive content moderation policies, but the legal standard for defamation is dauntingly high.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2021

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed with two Chicago financial groups to channel $5.5 million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. Oxygen is particularly important to seriously ill COVID patients, who usually develop pneumonia. In the U.S.,

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 30, 2023

Because of these developments, which have sparked serious concerns, technology leaders from around the world have signed an open letter calling for a pause on the development and testing of AI technologies, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and others that are even more powerful. Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?"

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2021

Apollo Global Management Co-Lead Partner David Sambur resigned from the board of Expedia Group. Expedia Group’s Chairman and Senior Executive is Barry Diller. The biopharmaceutical company will use the funding to initiate Phase 2 clinical trials and development of its oral treatment. RiverVest Venture Partners and U.S.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2022

On her own time, she put to use some of the skills and knowledge she’s developed. Lee, seeing Fedo for the first time during a video chat with Lytvynov and GeekWire, said she’s inspired that a group of people who have mostly never met each other came together to get stuff done. Photos courtesy of Pledge Ukraine).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. Economic Development Administration, is for tech startups located in Oregon or Washington state.

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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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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sharma was previously a vice president of product at Meta and COO at Seattle-based home services company Porch Group. Seattle biotech company Athira Pharma named Rachel Lennington as chief development officer and Samantha Willing as chief people officer. Lennington joined Athira in 2021 and Willing joined last year.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

APRIL 11, 2023

Therefore, "powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable." This is hilarious. To read this article in full, please click here

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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

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. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He noted that she helped steer the state through the COVID-19 pandemic, administering funding for local governments, tribes, small businesses and nonprofits, youth development groups, people seeking housing and rent assistance, and others. Jay Inslee, who appointed Brown in Feb. “Our state is better for her leadership.”

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

The City of Seattle launched a new program this week designed to provide necessary technology to people of color and other marginalized groups who are looking for jobs. Seattle’s Office of Economic Development is providing an additional $50,000 to expand the tools and resources the city offers job seekers through its digital equity programs.

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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. The training program offers a collaborative learning environment as well as individualized support through mentors, tutors, mental health support, and affinity groups.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

The quartet for the company’s first crewed flight in 2021 included Wally Funk, a member of the “Mercury 13” group of women fliers who missed out on joining NASA’s early astronaut corps. Hess , a software engineer and entrepreneur who developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits. groups addressing homelessness.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2022

Zillow Group Photo). Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. At Zillow Group, Arden will be responsible for customer experiences and integrations across its brands. and help people unlock life’s next chapter,” said Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow Group COO.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. Code.org will supply the curriculum and professional development workshops needed to offer the course to all participating schools.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As winner, Rose will work to develop its platform with Providence Digital Innovation Group and MultiCare Behavioral Health Network , partners in this year’s competition. Each healthcare customer works with a Rose behavioral specialist. The startup, founded by CEO Kavi Misri , a former healthcare investment banker, recently raised $1.7

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

“This past year made clear both how essential reliable internet is and how many obstacles to access remain for historically disadvantaged groups and neighborhoods,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a news release. This is how we build back better.”.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2024

An view from the south of the proposed green space expansion within the University of Washington’s planned Portage Bay Crossing development. to develop what it calls “knowledge communities.” An artist’s rendering of Brightwork, a new building planned for the UW’s Portage Bay Crossing development.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai Most recently Torossian was a CVP in the Business Applications group at Microsoft. Vahé Torossian. as president and chief partner officer. London-based Builder.ai “Today I join Builder.ai

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. The developer day was an issue. At the event, on Nov. Matt McIlwain.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2016

Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, life sciences and technology companies, health systems, investors and developers, government agencies and sponsored enterprises, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. PPL forms program for nonprofit groups (republicanherald.com).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

More than half of the science payloads for NS24 have been developed with support from NASA. The New Shepard capsule is also carrying 38,000 postcards that have been submitted — on paper and online — by students through a program organized by the Club for the Future , Blue Origin’s educational nonprofit group.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An analysis by Carbon Switch released on Giving Tuesday shows that donations to environmental groups is concentrated mostly at just a couple of big nonprofits, most of which work in land conservation. It’s understandable: climate has often been pigeonholed as an environmental issue. And what are known as the “big… Read more.

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Kitaboo

JULY 14, 2020

The primary objective of evaluating any training program is to develop an understanding of whether it has achieved its stated objectives. Benefits of Evaluating Training and Development. The steps to conduct a formative evaluation are – Reviewing the training materials with one or a group of trainees. Cost-Efficiency.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Sybil Tasker was hired as the chief medical officer at Inventprise, a Seattle-area startup developing a pneumonia shot. Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Katherine Cheng , head of global and community impact at Expedia Group , had been working on a project with her company to employ out-of-work tailors from arts organizations to sew personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Serving up smarter logistics. FoodPair Photo).

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More than half of the science payloads that flew on NS24 were developed with support from NASA. The New Shepard capsule also carried 38,000 postcards that have been submitted — on paper and online — by students through a program organized by the Club for the Future , Blue Origin’s educational nonprofit group.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Collectively, they’ll get $791 million from the richest man on Earth, although Bezos did not specify how much would go to each group. Support for mainstream environmental groups. His choice in recipients so far signals support for mainstream environmental groups rallying for new policies and research on climate change.

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