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A new EV car-sharing program in Seattle aims to reach underserved communities with co-op model

GeekWire

The team is negotiating partnerships with local nonprofits and government entities, adding vehicles one by one to its fleet, now totaling 11. Current participants include Town and Country Markets, the City of Port Townsend, a Seattle-based nonprofit called Estelita’s Library and several affordable housing providers.

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

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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. Denver and Dallas and has helped more then 6,200 people get housing.

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No, a smartphone won’t turn your child into a zombie

Vox

Recently, the US Surgeon General went so far as to call for warning labels on social media platforms to inform parents about the apps’ mental health impacts on young people. Experts say that children under 13 should not have access to social media. Babies as young as 6 months old spend over an hour a day in front of screens.

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Seattle startup founders, investors react to new state capital gains tax that targets stocks

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.” RELATED: Capital gains tax ruled constitutional by Washington state Supreme Court “As part of Tempo, we will maintain this flexible approach for our talent and may at some point opt to establish our business license in more business-friendly locale than Seattle,” he said. Others applauded the court’s ruling.

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Solar power nonprofit goes digital to bring installation instruction to underserved communities

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In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based The state also requires that installers earn an electrician’s license.

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Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

GeekWire

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. And so we started to conceive how could we build a program that would bring people from the community into the data enterprise at Hopkins.

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When your job helps the rest of America work

Vox

“Child care workers, the people providing this labor and this service that is absolutely vital to the continuing of our economy and families, are so underpaid that they can’t afford to cover their basic needs,” said Asha Banerjee, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. Starting a day care isn’t easy.