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Amazon keeps fueling philanthropic efforts under leadership of former nonprofit executive

GeekWire

The event was organized by Amazon in the Community, a philanthropic program within the company. The program specifically addresses needs in education, housing, food security, disaster relief and employee volunteering. Working with a budget, kids could choose clothes, school supplies and books for their home libraries.

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Empowering Change: Digital Library Solutions for Nonprofits

Kitaboo

Unlimited digital files of magazines, books, journals, articles, audio, and more are preserved in these virtual libraries. These resources are valuable for charity programs and need to be accessed anytime and anywhere. These resources are crucial for any business, especially non-profit organizations.

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Airbnb launches nonprofit to provide stays for essential workers and refugees

The Verge

Airbnb is launching a nonprofit to allow the hosts who rent out their properties on its platform to provide free and discounted stays to refugees, people affected by natural disasters, and frontline workers in the coronavirus pandemic. The company says more than 100,000 hosts worldwide have provided accommodations under the programs.

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Amazon giving $9M to Seattle-area organizations addressing needs around homelessness

GeekWire

The organizations include: Mary’s Place : Amazon is giving $6 million to the nonprofit to support its ongoing operations and to provide funding toward a new development of co-located affordable housing and family shelter and services in Burien, Wash. Previously: Inside Amazon’s new 8-floor family homeless shelter attached to its Seattle HQ

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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests

GeekWire

A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19 testing. The nonprofit uses machine learning to analyze thousands of photos of test results to automate the interpretation results. Most of the Audere team, gathered together in pre-COVID times.

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New platform from nonprofit Carina offers quick searches for in-home childcare openings

GeekWire

Pivotal Labs, working through its Pivotal Act program that benefits nonprofits, provided two months of free engineering for the project. In Los Angeles, for example, Mayor Eric Garcetti promoted Carina as one of the tools for finding childcare as part of a program supporting hospital workers. “We

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Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs

GeekWire

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.” ” Her typical week and daily habits were recently profiled in The Wall Street Journal.

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