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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

The January whitepaper is the result of a collaboration between Foundry10 , an educational research organization, and Game to Grow , a nonprofit organization that focuses on using games as therapeutic aids. Tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) such as D&D are essentially collaborative storytelling exercises for three to six players.

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Researchers detail huge hack-for-hire campaigns against environmentalists

The Verge

“The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling,” Citizen Lab’s report says. The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling”.

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OpenAI taps Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO

GeekWire

RELATED: Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft In a statement on Friday, OpenAI said Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” “The OpenAI originally formed as a non-profit organization, OpenAI Inc.,

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Why OpenAI blew up — and why it matters

Vox

Second, OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. The rest of the profit — if there was any — would go back into OpenAI’s nonprofit. The company was still governed by a board of directors charged with carrying out that nonprofit mission, but the board was pretty much the only thing left of OpenAI’s nonprofit origins.

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Amazon adds mental health benefit for U.S. workers with access to counseling, crisis support and more

GeekWire

In a news release, Amazon cited the nonprofit Mental Health America , which said more than 26 million adults went untreated for mental health concerns in the U.S. There are plans to add 75,000 more workers , and the tech giant has faced increased scrutiny over working conditions in its fulfillment facilities and among its delivery personnel.

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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

GeekWire

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. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue.

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