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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

CIO Business Intelligence

One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure. The team supports the ERP systems for another 25% of the network.

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Tech Moves: VC firm Ascend names new partner; Common Room adds board member; and more

GeekWire

Kleha has previous experience at Google, Zendesk, Airtable and Figma, where she was most recently a chief customer officer. Brad Booth is taking over as CEO at Seattle-based NLM Photonics , a company that is working on hybrid electro-optic modulation to address pain points in computing and networking.

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17 professional organizations for Black IT pros

CIO Business Intelligence

While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.

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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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Meet Seattle’s ‘Climate Papa’ – an entrepreneur turned investor, podcaster, climate action apostle

GeekWire

Eidelson, an engineer whose first startup was acquired by Google and his second by payment processor Stripe, was struggling with the existential threat posed by global warming. Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people.

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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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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

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%.