GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

And GeekWire is here to recognize and celebrate a select few of these groups through our Geeks Give Back Award. Past winners for this category include the Year Up and Apprenti training programs, the Technology Access Foundation (TAF) and a campaign to end malaria. The Geeks Give Back Award is presented this year by BECU. Game to Grow.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A pilot program to help orca whales in Puget Sound by asking commercial vessels to slow down saw 61% participation in its first month, reported program leaders at an event Friday at the Seattle Aquarium. The pilot program lasts from Oct. Ultimately, the group would like to link hydrophone data to the new app. ” Gov.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. Dungeons & Dragons dice come in odd shapes and sizes.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the 22 tech startups that have been selected for the organization’s recurring Founder Cohort Program on Thursday. Launching a startup can be a lonely journey, but it doesn’t have to be,” Parker, the board chair for WTIA’s Startup Program, said in a news release.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2021

That isn’t keeping the 40-year-old trade group from looking beyond its home state for its own workforce and offerings. The programming and services WTIA offers is also expanding beyond its home state. While most participating companies are in Washington state, the DEI program is open to companies nationwide. was for advocacy.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2024

Health tech incubation: Providence is a Catholic, nonprofit healthcare system based in Renton, Wash., It runs its own startup incubator called Providence Digital Innovation Group. Praia got its start within that program, launching internally in early 2022. and operates in seven states.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. The free and virtual 10-week program, funded by the U.S. Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

The company is teaming up with nonprofit Common Sense Media, which specializes in age-based content reviews, to curate various collections that’ll appear in the Apple Podcasts app in the US and online. The collections will be updated monthly with new themes being tied to “important historical and cultural moments,” like Women’s History Month.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

After connecting with a former Adie — the nickname for students in the program — and confirming the program was indeed real, Burrows says she “couldn’t wait to apply.”. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Pivotal Labs, working through its Pivotal Act program that benefits nonprofits, provided two months of free engineering for the project. On the providers’ side, that can mean unions representing childcare workers and for families it includes their employers, unions and community groups.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Seattle nonprofit Housing Connector is trying to level the playing field for the region’s most vulnerable renters — even in the face of escalating housing shortages and soaring costs of living. As part of its program, Housing Connector guarantees rent payment and promises $5,000 in damage insurance. Bidding wars abound.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2022

Global BPO research firm The Everest Group recently ranked AllianceBernstein first among large financial services companies for tech employment based on its high scores for employee satisfaction, work environment, compensation, career opportunities, and diversity. Diversifying the talent pipeline. The Nashville, Tenn.-based Karl Sprules.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) More than 100 companies, tribal groups, union organizations, environmental nonprofits and political groups are backing a campaign to defeat a November ballot initiative that would scuttle Washington state’s most impactful climate policy. Over time, the number of available permits decreases.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As a nonprofit, Signal doesn’t receive financial support from any advertisers or shareholders, a new blog post notes , and relies on users for donations. Signal users can make donations to the company within the app | Signal.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Josh Holland of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways on Rainier Avenue South in Seattle with one of the signs the nonprofit made calling attention to car-related fatalities. At right is a map showing all of the memorial sites around the city. Accident locations in Seattle are visible on this interactive map.

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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.

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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

MAY 21, 2021

Apollo Global Management Co-Lead Partner David Sambur resigned from the board of Expedia Group. Expedia Group’s Chairman and Senior Executive is Barry Diller. ZoomInfo uses machine learning to help customers drive sales and marketing programs and went public last year. -based contract management startup was valued at $2.8

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Since her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, Scott has given away more than $14 billion to more than 1,600 nonprofit organizations, which are all listed on the new site , along with the amount of money received. She has stayed out of the limelight during that time, only penning a handful of essays to describe her donations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Ada’s List is an email-based group that is open to anyone who identifies as a woman and works in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

(Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday. “But we are no strangers to being knocked down or kept out of the industry.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

Kennedy to enter an Air Force flight training program that was regarded as a pathway to NASA’s astronaut corps, and went on to win an Air Force recommendation to join NASA. In 2001, Hess founded Science Buddies , a K-12 nonprofit that’s based in California and focuses on STEM literacy. with her husband of 40 years.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2024

AoA Photos) Seattle-based investment group Alliance of Angels is gearing up to raise a new fund that will help support a new batch of startups across the Pacific Northwest. Techstars announced earlier this month that it is shutting down its Seattle accelerator program and focusing on cities with a higher volume of venture capital activity.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Senate Bill 5144 would require producers of batteries and battery-containing products to fund a state-approved stewardship program for collecting and recycling batteries. ” There is already a voluntary rechargeable battery recycling program in Washington. have recycling programs funded by battery producers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sharma was previously a vice president of product at Meta and COO at Seattle-based home services company Porch Group. In a LinkedIn post , Sharma said AI-powered advances will be “exponential, sparking the most important product making era yet, with significant gains in how billions of people program, work and live.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

“This past year made clear both how essential reliable internet is and how many obstacles to access remain for historically disadvantaged groups and neighborhoods,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a news release.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits. groups addressing homelessness.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. Teachers and others interested in the program can sign up to receive news and updates as the course development progresses.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2022

Zillow Group Photo). Zillow Group named Jenny Arden as the Seattle-based real estate company’s first chief design officer. At Zillow Group, Arden will be responsible for customer experiences and integrations across its brands. and help people unlock life’s next chapter,” said Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow Group COO.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) trade group is laying off 11 employees, or 14% of its workforce, with cuts mostly affecting positions in its non-profit tech worker apprenticeship program Apprenti. In 2021, the program helped springboard the tech careers of about 420 people. In August, it was awarded a $23.5

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When Bill Neukom showed up at Microsoft as its first general counsel in 1985, he made two critical decisions that have since impacted millions of lives over the last thirty-five years and have been instrumental in creating a program that has inspired thousands of employees to become engaged deeply into their communities.

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Kitaboo

JULY 14, 2020

Training evaluation refers to an attempt to obtain relevant information on the effects of a training program. The primary objective of evaluating any training program is to develop an understanding of whether it has achieved its stated objectives. Isolate the effects of a training program. Transparency in Feedback.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Seattle-based Xplore says space investor and philanthropist Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit, on behalf of a nonprofit group he founded. Its marquee program aims to send citizen astronauts on all-expenses-paid journeys to the space frontier. (Xplore Illustration).

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Katherine Cheng , head of global and community impact at Expedia Group , had been working on a project with her company to employ out-of-work tailors from arts organizations to sew personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Serving up smarter logistics. FoodPair Photo).

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MARCH 27, 2021

But a liberal lawmaker has temporarily derailed the initiative to raise questions about the involvement of a volunteer group that she worries is pushing a political agenda. The saga is another flashpoint in the debate over the proper role of billionaire philanthropists — and their affiliated nonprofits — in society.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Washington State University this week launched a new $125 million program to collect and analyze animal viruses with the aim of preventing the next pandemic. The program is funded with an award from the U.S. Louis and the nonprofit FHI 360. The project is expected to yield 8,000 to 12,000 novel viruses for analysis.

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