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With help from Zillow, this nonprofit wants to change the game for high-risk renters

GeekWire

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. Housing Connector acts as an insurer for the next two years, backing those renters that might be seen as too high-risk otherwise. “We

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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research.

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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

Vox

Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Moves: Delivery giant Gopuff adds Seattle-area execs; Wheels Up names president; and more

GeekWire

He was most recently SVP of product management at speciality auto insurance provider Hagerty and previously VP of digital at restaurant chain sweetgreen. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Starbucks and Target alum Dan Beranek as vice president of product for fresh food.

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Tech Moves: Delivery giant Gopuff adds Seattle-area execs; Wheels Up names CEO; and more

GeekWire

He was most recently SVP of product management at speciality auto insurance provider Hagerty and previously VP of digital at restaurant chain sweetgreen. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Starbucks and Target alum Dan Beranek as vice president of product for fresh food.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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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How CareSource IT is addressing data interoperability challenges in healthcare

CIO Business Intelligence

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.