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

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Sightline Institute Photo used under Creative Commons License ) As the Seattle area’s housing crisis continues, Housing Connector is trying to level the playing field for the region’s most vulnerable renters. The Seattle-based group is backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp through his Camp.org nonprofit foundation.

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Paul G. Allen Family Foundation giving $1.4M in COVID-19 relief aimed at underserved communities

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The following nonprofits received immediate support: Na’ah? University of Washington Foundation to support the WAFOOD survey, a joint effort between the UW and Washington State University with collaboration from Tacoma Community College (TCC). To date, the All In WA Child Care Initiative has dispersed 21 grants of more than $2.8

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

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The study , “Survey of the Video Game Reissue Market in the United States,” was written by Phil Salvador, the library director of the Video Game History Foundation , with the assistance of a team of student researchers from the University of Washington Information School. were still available for legal purchase. between 1948 (i.e.

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My adult kids found themselves in nature. Will my youngest lose herself in her phone?

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It gave Hatcher a taste of independence he’d never known, introduced him to kayaking, and started him on a journey that would make him one of the youngest licensed guides working multiday trips on this wild river. Over the same span of time, I’ve also witnessed the way technology’s grip on our children has tightened.

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Amazon adds mental health benefit for U.S. workers with access to counseling, crisis support and more

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In a news release, Amazon cited the nonprofit Mental Health America , which said more than 26 million adults went untreated for mental health concerns in the U.S. The pandemic also added significant stress to parents, according to a recent survey by the American Psychological Association.

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When your job helps the rest of America work

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“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. Nonprofits have also stepped in.

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Sam Altman calls for ‘incredible scrutiny’ of major AI companies, including OpenAI and Microsoft

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TAKE OUR AI SURVEY We want your opinion on job displacement, societal impact, and stories to cover What’s more, he said the oversight should focus heavily on the small number of players, including OpenAI and Microsoft, with the capability to train and deploy the large language models that power generative AI tools.

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