GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

Coding for Cancer also aims to serve teens from backgrounds historically excluded from the biomedical sciences, and works with families to provide technological resources — computers or WiFi, for example — that they might not have ready access to. Since launching in Seattle five years ago, Housing Connector has expanded to Portland, Ore.,

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2024

The hackathon brought together volunteer organizations, state and local government, students, and researchers to co-develop testable “resilience pilot projects” that could help Seattle be more prepared for future disruptions. Participants then spent the day in work sessions developing and refining their ideas.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter. In a Medium post , the team says it’s hoping developers can tailor it for other at-risk social media users.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

(OpenAI Graphic) In 2019, the non-profit created an affiliated “capped-profit” entity, OpenAI Global LLC, aimed at giving it the resources to pursue the AGI vision without the profit incentives of a traditional company. But, as I understand it, it was a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

World Resources Institute Photo). Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday that his Bezos Earth Fund has hired Andrew Steer, the head of the World Resources Institute, as its first CEO and president. “Andrew has decades of experience in environmental and climate science as well as economic and social policy in the U.S.,

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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. And now GeekWire is choosing Li as the Junior Geek of the Month for September.

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GeekWire

JUNE 22, 2020

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space travel and computerized avatars, but its latest contest hits closer to home: XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling is offering $5 million in prizes for innovations that could revolutionize job training for under-resourced communities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) As a high school counselor for more than a decade, Jason Booker witnessed the challenges that students face when applying to college — including a lack of resources to guide them through the process, and university systems slow to adopt the technologies necessary to connect effectively with students in the modern era.

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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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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

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. CiviForm technology has also been adopted by the City of Bloomington, Ind. ; the State of Arkansas ; and the City of Charlotte, N.C.

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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. The company acquired two international cosmetic resource platforms earlier this year. based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Tiziana Figliolia. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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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

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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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. ’ That summer was super transformational because the way that the program was executed was really deeply intertwining tech and artificial intelligence and machine learning with social impact.”

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Given her resources, drive and expertise, French Gates — who revived her maiden name in the wake of the divorce announcement earlier this month — could be a game-changing force in female-focused venture capital and philanthropic efforts. Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts.

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Vox

APRIL 16, 2020

Experts have argued for years that the social network is rife with misleading information that taints public discourse and asked Facebook to take the retroactive approach. “We Facebook included a screenshot of a new News Feed message that will show users who have interacted false coronavirus information, pointing them to WHO resources.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Prior to joining Ovum, he was an independent analyst whose company ‘onStrategies’ delivered software development and integration tools to vendors with technology assessment and market positioning services. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. Bob Gourley.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Pitasky was most recently vice president of human resources for Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business. He was previously EVP and chief partner resources officer at Starbucks and spent 13 years as a human resources leader at Microsoft. “I He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All mission crew supporting this launch are exercising strict social distancing and safety measures to mitigate COVID-19 risks to personnel, customers and surrounding communities.” The payload was developed by Space Lab in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder. amounting to a total of 12 commercial payloads.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Prior to joining Ovum, he was an independent analyst whose company ‘onStrategies’ delivered software development and integration tools to vendors with technology assessment and market positioning services. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. Bob Gourley.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

There’s no good evidence that the ADL or any other nonprofit is largely responsible for X/Twitter’s ad woes, which mostly have been caused by its owner’s erratic behavior. Antisemitic writers and politicians developed a new vocabulary that picked up on the old Christian bigotry but rearticulated it in ways more appropriate to modern Europe.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

Amazon’s employee relations team was developing a separate “internally-facing strategy,” the memo said. That includes employees at all levels of the organization developing documents, engaging in planning sessions, and discussing different ideas — some of which get enacted, some of which don’t.

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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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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

There are a range of organizations that are providing activists with bail bonds and legal help, or that are helping small businesses and other community resources that have been adversely affected. What follows is only a limited list. Bail and legal funds. National Bail Fund Network. We Love Lake Street. We have enough food now.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Tax automation company Avalara appointed Kathleen Weslock as its new chief human resources officer. Weslock previously led human resources at lithium technology company Livent, Frontier Communications and Cisco Systems. GeekWire is a dot.LA

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Reconnaissance - BEC actors perform reconnaissance on potential victims, compiling lists of potential targets, visiting company websites, social media, and networking websites. But for the most part, the BEC "weaponization" process is more aligned to compiling the reconnaissance to develop authentic-appearing email accounts and messages.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

” The company is hiring a new city editor to lead the initiative , seeking someone to “develop and write a daily newsletter that delivers sharp, insightful and useful news to the Seattle community, building on the strong journalistic legacy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.” From hard news to lighter fare.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As outrage and protests spread across the nation and social media after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May, major tech companies issued statements of solidarity , startup founders spoke out about racism and investors announced funds dedicated to entrepreneurs of color.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. She is currently adjunct faculty at her alma mater, Stanford University.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2023

Interoperability within CareSource is achieved through a variety of ways: Health Information Exchange (HIE), direct connections to provider EHR systems, and partnerships with multiple companies to deliver critical information in the areas of clinical, claims, social determinant, and formulary data to our patients through secure means.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

. “Many teachers have never received training in the techniques and tools to use for remote online instruction, either in initial teacher education or ongoing professional development,” added Frank Cat alano, a Seattle-based ed-tech industry consultant and analyst. Fewer meaningful social connections.

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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? Brian Wells Photo).

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2015

Both nonprofits, their individual missions and goals are synergistic: CSA: To promote best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing and provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2015

Both nonprofits, their individual missions and goals are synergistic: CSA: To promote best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing and provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Creative leadership is the ability to inspire, to create, and to maintain the social and psychological conditions and the environment in which everyone is able to: (a) reach his or her highest potential; and, (b) contribute "leadership" in areas of his or her unique competencies. Creative leaders are inspirational and motivational.

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