GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2023

Washington Middle School three years ago entered a partnership with the Technology Access Foundation (TAF), an education nonprofit led by Millines Dziko, and began incorporating TAF’s pedagogy at the racially and economically diverse school. TAF has a less-intensive model called the STEMbyTAF School Transformation program.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The organizations include: Mary’s Place : Amazon is giving $6 million to the nonprofit to support its ongoing operations and to provide funding toward a new development of co-located affordable housing and family shelter and services in Burien, Wash.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2023

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills.

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JULY 12, 2023

The homepage for the City of Seattle’s CiviForm website, a tool that makes it faster and easier for residents to apply to city-related benefit and discount programs. The CiviForm tool was developed by the City of Seattle’s Innovation and Performance team and Seattle Information Technology Department and first piloted in June 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

LGBTQ Tech LGBTQ Tech offers programs and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities and works to “educate organizations and policy makers on the unique needs LGBTQ+ individuals face when it comes to tech.” 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

MARCH 25, 2024

Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research. Denver and Dallas and has helped more then 6,200 people get housing.

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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. Ada Developers Academy. Ada Developers reports that it has placed nearly all of its recent graduates in full-time tech jobs.

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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. The first round of refurbished laptops were donated to 20 participants in the program earlier this month. Seattle City Hall. Flickr Photo / Daniel X. O’Neil).

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GeekWire

MAY 16, 2020

Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. ” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For decades, we’ve been investing in innovation, partnerships, and programs that apply our technology, scale, and talented workforce to drive human progress – all intending to have a measurable influence on some of the complex challenges important to our business, customers, the communities we serve and society at large.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2022

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. And so we started to conceive how could we build a program that would bring people from the community into the data enterprise at Hopkins.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

COVID-19 has ravaged the economy and unraveled social safety nets that provide meals for people who are hungry. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Dyce discovered Off Their Plate, a nonprofit that uses donations to pay restaurants to prepare meals, while browsing Instagram. Serving up smarter logistics.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Bank of America recognized that leadership this past summer by selecting Li as one of hundreds of Student Leaders for 2021, a program that helps prepare young people to enter the workforce through hands-on skill- building and leadership development. “My work with Treehouse this summer was so impactful,” Li said.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2020

When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., Kuria is doing his part in trying to drum up awareness for the support of Black-owned businesses, sometimes called BOBs, including a social media campaign dubbed “Do The BOB.” BOB Photo). BOB Image).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Somewhere along the way, Dogra determined that she could do more with technology to impact the social causes that were important to her. She wasn’t confident that she would even get into the program, or that she even had any interest in computer science. 18-year-old now says she’s planning on studying computer science.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And that’s not the only new experiment for Blue Origin’s five-year-old New Shepard flight test program: This 13th test flight will be the first to be flown since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and the first to include extra COVID-19 safety measures. Both payload flights were funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At this point, it isn’t exactly surprising that social media platforms like Facebook can have negative effects on society. For years, journalists, politicians, social scientists — and even biologists and ecologists — have been raising concerns about the influence Facebook has on our collective well-being.

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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, 2021

. — Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues. He was also VP of marketing, sales and business development at online photography platform SmugMug.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

I wrote about it today at The Verge : In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. The harm that can be suffered from this work is real and severe.”.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sawant’s proposed legislation would be a first-in-the-nation attempt to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. Samir Khobragade , a former Amazon engineer and current senior director of software engineering for cloud platforms at NetApp, has worked in tech for 26 years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Greenlee believed that bringing Black technologists together and raising their awareness about conferences and events would help develop a sense of community and elevate career prospects for Black IT pros. So, he launched a blog to connect with and create a community for Black technologists.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

. — Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues. He was also VP of marketing, sales and business development at online photography platform SmugMug.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2020

Ingram is the CEO and founder of consulting firm Diverse City and tech startup Inclusology , which is developing a tech platform for diversity, equity and inclusion assessments inside companies. I don’t mean just giving it to nonprofits that are run by white leaders who have a white savior complex.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

-based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. It seems that time may have come.

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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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Program VP, Business Analytics and Big Data. Drew Conway.

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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. Credit: Tom Alberg, from “Flywheels: How Cities are Creating Their Own Futures.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2020

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) developed a strategic consensus on defending the U.S. As a backdrop, consider the massive shift to remote work and other risks created by the pandemic's social distancing efforts: 1. Support Nonprofits That Assist Law Enforcement's Cybercrime and Victim Support Efforts.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Price was born with a syndrome that caused his heart to develop unevenly and has required three major surgeries to correct; someday he will need a heart transplant. Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help. “It screamed innovation and technology.”.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Kodukula previously held business development roles at Human Longevity, Life Technologies, and Prometheus Laboratories. Lisa Wallace joined as VP of program operations.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. Tiziana Figliolia.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Program VP, Business Analytics and Big Data. Drew Conway.

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