GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Open up your networks. based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on women and minority founders. That’s the message to investors from Jill Johnson , co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL), a Newark, N.J.-based Reetu Gupta.

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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. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue. ’ ” McIlwain said.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2024

He ultimately decided to chart his own path in the field — initially founding a nonprofit called Equitable College Counseling before founding EdXeno. His brother, Joel, was struggling at the time with issues including alcohol and the lingering effects of social isolation from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. Driving significant, steady innovations within the Apache Hadoop community through active participation and contributions to ecosystem projects, online forums, and/or user groups. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS. PERVASIVE INTEGRATION. ADVANCED ANALYTICS. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. Driving significant, steady innovations within the Apache Hadoop community through active participation and contributions to ecosystem projects, online forums, and/or user groups. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS. PERVASIVE INTEGRATION. ADVANCED ANALYTICS. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) named Yolanda Chase as chief diversity officer and the newest member of the trade group’s senior leadership team. . He previously served as a strategic advisor for the real estate startup, which competes with Seattle-based companies Zillow Group and Redfin. Yolanda Chase.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

As a critical part of the governance ecosystem, we impact the economy, social welfare, and all of those people who rely on these organizations to deliver the outcomes they need. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board. Search firms look for folks, but they’ll only find you through networking.

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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. She is currently a board member for cleantech investment group E8 Angels. DataKind has chapters in the U.K.,

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

“There’s been a ton of people who have contacted us to get connected,” said Bill Kalivas of LaunchPad Inland Northwest , a group working to connect and expand the region’s innovation community. Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. They want to plug in. .”

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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 In March alone, Facebook says it labeled 40 million posts as “false” on its network, relying on its team of independent third-party fact-checkers.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. The quick pivot to telehealth also drew from the nonprofit’s experience shifting to electronic records a few years back. Your preferred social network?

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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. She is currently a board member for cleantech investment group E8 Angels. DataKind has chapters in the U.K.,

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

So, as laid out in this helpful Lifehacker article , it’s a good idea not to just click on a social media link; instead, once you’ve picked out a group you want to donate to, go to that group’s website and check them out. National Bail Fund Network. You can also donate directly to the Network. Bail and legal funds.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith is serving on the steering committee for the group. Financial support for nonprofits: Through the Microsoft Philanthropies employee giving program, employees in the U.S The company is also working to provide 25,000 oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While many people might think of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups when it comes to infiltrating social media platforms, there’s actually a global network of hackers participating in an underground economy where things like Facebook and Instagram accounts are commodities. Cookies aren’t inherently bad.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help. AIE student Alaric “Al” Trevers led a group of seven peers on the project, which ran from late January to early July. “It screamed innovation and technology.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is “patchy,” some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Early next year, the initiative will invite regional organizations to apply to a “learning network” that will explore why students don’t enroll in post-secondary programs and consider solutions. The new program is informed by similar work underway at the education nonprofit Washington STEM , which Jones previously led.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2021

The nonprofit sea.citi recently convened a panel of Seattle tech leaders to talk about DEI efforts. workforce will be made up of people from underrepresented groups. A lack of resources and unnecessary hurdles to funding has historically held back community groups, particularly those with BIPOC leadership, Myrick said.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Nye served as outside counsel for Microsoft and as founder and principal of Madrona Law Group, providing legal support to Amazon and Paramount Pictures. He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. million and acquired IT consulting service company Adaptive Technology Group.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told Recode in July that his union is intent on “disrupting [Amazon’s] network until they get to a point where they surrender” and stop resisting workers’ unionization efforts. Another question asked, “How will this earn Amazon Political capital, in regions where we are facing unionization efforts?”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

“It seemed too good to be true — free classes for six months, a paid internship, partnerships with great companies in my area, high graduation and employment rates, and lastly, an emphasis on social justice,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. Mariya Burrows.

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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+. Zillow Group Photo). Zillow Group appointed Claire Cormier Thielke to its board of directors. million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group earlier this month. Claire Cormier Thielke.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2020

Carmen Rojas , the incoming CEO and president of Marguerite Casey Foundation , encourages people to think more expansively about what innovation means and to remember that it applies — and is desperately needed — in the social sector, as well. based nonprofit whose focus is on worker empowerment. Your preferred social network?

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2021

were from non-white, underrepresented ethnic and racial groups. The participants receive instruction in corporate governance issues and have opportunities for networking and mentoring. An analysis last year of the 3,000 largest publicly traded companies found that only 4% of directors were Black, 21% were female and 12.5%

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The group is focused heavily on the 2024 election, going so far as to put a countdown clock to Nov.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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CTOvision

MARCH 7, 2014

The institute also will incorporate elements from law, business and the social sciences to promote development of an educated citizenry in the issues of cyber security. The institute will educate leaders who understand the complexities of cyber-related issues, whether they take their degree in computer science or philosophy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

For example, Seattle-based on-demand freight network Convoy , which raised $400 million in November , has a long list of open positions. Other Seattle-area startups that are ramping up hiring to meet demand include voice tech developer WellSaid Labs ; social support platform Give InKind ; cloud services provider BitTitan ; and more.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

The business is not as racially and ethnically diverse as they would like to be, and Cole has focused on listening empathetically to employees who do belong to underrepresented groups. Your preferred social network? LinkedIn is the only social network I’m active on. How do you use it for business/work?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

We sold the company to Palo Alto Networks, I think less than four years from its founding date, which is a very interesting growth story, obviously. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. The Twistlock was a company I joined after Intel security was a startup. So what do you do to secure them?

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. We all have a fundamental right to establish a common objective reality,” said Andy Parsons, senior director of Adobe’s content authenticity initiative group.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated. million people around the world.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More recently, telecoms have partnered with AR companies like the Chinese startup Nreal, hoping high-bandwidth holograms will create a demand for 5G networks. Writer and researcher Erica Neely says that laws and social norms aren’t prepared for how AR could affect physical space. “I

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