Venture Beast

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Girls Who Code, AnitaB.org, and NCWIT are working to close the tech gender gap with pandemic-adjusted strategies for education and community. Read More.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 8, 2021

Using computers and mobile phones, and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, help in gathering and circulating knowledge and information quite effectively. Websites, blogs and social media are cost-effective tools to stay connected with the volunteers and community members of an association. Advantages of Technology.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

Certifi AI Photo) In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms before the sites took action. Melissa Hutchins, co-founder and CEO of Certifi AI. Hutchins wants to provide technology that could help address this sort of deepfake abuse.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 23, 2021

Screenshots of two rambling social media posts—one from Facebook, one from Instagram—form the sum total of the evidence police used last summer to justify an aerial surveillance operation in North California, records obtained by the nonprofit transparency group Property of the People and reporting by the Guardian… Read more.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The nonprofit Mars Society is getting set to take the next giant leap in its mission to support Red Planet exploration and settlement, by establishing a Mars Technology Institute to develop the tools and processes those settlers will need. The institute would be structured as a nonprofit organization, funded by tax-deductible contributions.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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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Gizmodo

JULY 20, 2020

The transgender community in particular faces targeted attacked that are oftentimes “ inhumane ” or “abusive,” according to a new study from watchdog nonprofit Media Matters for… Read more. Those who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community are often the targets of online harassment , and those threats can have fatal consequences.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2023

Nonprofit film organization SIFF announced Thursday that it acquired the Cinerama from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, three years after the historic downtown Seattle movie theater closed. Seattle’s Cinerama movie theater in the city’s Belltown neighborhood. RELATED: Cinerama is saved!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Why Chicago Public Media and the Chicago Sun-Times are exploring a merger The Chicago Sun-Times needs help. Chicago Public Media, which owns the radio station WBEZ, is currently in talks with the Sun-Times to merge. Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Oasis Consortium, a nonprofit devoted to making the internet safer, launched its principles for online user safety today. Read More.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that has set out to solve the huge problem of plastics in the ocean, will hold a press event Wednesday where it will review the success of its latest system. This week, one of the world’s most-watched plastic clean-up projects will announce victory. The group has already said the… Read more.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) Washington STEM, a nonprofit focused on statewide STEM education and social change, named Lynne K. Varner served on the boards of the American Red Cross, the National Association of Black Journalists, and Cascade Public Media. Varner as its new CEO, effective Aug.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

Vox Media, owner of The Verge , also gifted employees a $1,000 bonus late last year. Microsoft says it has also donated “more than $98 million of assistance to nonprofits in Washington state” since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with plans to commit an additional $60 million in support by July.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Mainstream media critic Project Veritas sues University of Washington and Stanford, alleging defamation by social media researchers. Gates Foundation poached Washington STEM CEO, then gave nonprofit $100K to find a replacement. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2024

Basinga joined the Seattle-based nonprofit 12 years ago and was most recently its global director, program advocacy and communication. Ramirez previously was an exec at Prytania Media, BonusXP, and En Masse Entertainment. (Gates Foundation Photo) The Gates Foundation named Paulin Basinga as its new director of Gates Foundation Africa.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support,” government contracting records show (as first spotted by the tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry ). However, the ICE contract would appear to comply with Clearview’s earlier pledge.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Nonprofit On the Edge Conservation is launching "virtual animal influencers" on YouTube to draw attention to endangered species. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” 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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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A sampling of the nation’s most intolerable contrarian columnists, right-wing pundits, and other stuffed shirts is launching their own university in a bid to challenge the supposedly woke academic status quo—courtesy of funding from an obscure libertarian nonprofit linked to Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Read more.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

If no changes to this proposal are made, the accounts that would be eligible for verification would include government accounts , companies, brands, nonprofits, news media accounts, entertainment, sports, activists, organizers, and what Twitter refers to as “other influential individuals.”

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2021

Now, two senators are turning their attention to the vaccine misinformation superspreaders that push the bulk of conspiracy theories and lies on social media — and asking the social media giants to take more aggressive action. Kennedy Jr., Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Although it benefits all sectors we work in, we will focus on nonprofit organizations and publishing in this article. Why should nonprofit organizations and associations switch to digital publishing? Almost all nonprofit organizations practice the tradition of printing journals and reports. The most vital of all these is space.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2023

RELATED: Seattle Schools vs. Social Media: What’s at stake in the suit against TikTok, Instagram, and others. Other school districts in New York City and Los Angeles blocked ChatGPT , which has also drawn scrutiny for producing inaccurate answers.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s unclear what the financial terms for the deal are; media reports said Rogan’s exclusive contract with Spotify was worth more than $100 million. The company purchased Gimlet Media , maker of popular podcasts Reply All and The Pitch , in 2019. The Wall Street Journal first reported Kardashian West’s deal on Wednesday.

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Vox

MARCH 27, 2021

The saga is another flashpoint in the debate over the proper role of billionaire philanthropists — and their affiliated nonprofits — in society. Almost all nonprofit newsrooms are traditionally structured as 501(c)3 groups rather than as “dark money” political groups, as 501(c)4 organizations are sometimes called.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 4, 2020

According to nonprofit group Avaaz, Facebook is failing to flag false information about the upcoming U.S. special elections in Georgia. Read More.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. During a media Q&A at OpenAI’s DevDay on Nov. At the event, on Nov.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter. In a Medium post , the team says it’s hoping developers can tailor it for other at-risk social media users.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With that public-private partnership at its core, the new nonprofit National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) started the first Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Many people in our study rely on the news media to stay informed about cybersecurity, but they also say the news scares them. We've come a long way.

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The Verge

APRIL 11, 2022

Internet communication technologies are key for human rights defenders and independent media”. Access Now and other nonprofits have pushed the US government to avoid disrupting internet access as part of larger sanctions against Russia over its February invasion of Ukraine.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Microsoft and nonprofit Team Gleason announced Project Insight, an effort to build a computer vision dataset for people with ALS. Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2023

His role at Portland Seed Fund is being funded by nonprofit Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network Catalyst, the Portland Business Journal reported. Former Funko Associate Director of Social Media Ashley Anderson is joining action figure-maker Super7 as director of community and social.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2023

Seattle film nonprofit SIFF acquires historic theater from Paul Allen estate Seattle film lovers got their Hollywood ending. … Read More Cinerama is saved! … Read More Wood or would not? . … Read More

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Venture Beast

MAY 20, 2020

The Xprize nonprofit foundation is announcing Xprize Connect, a new learning initiative where students will compete to make video games. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 13, 2021

A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram’s algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook “bullied” its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that was collected with consent from Instagram users. Read more.

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CTOvision

JUNE 6, 2014

Fight for the Future , a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and Internet freedom, is spearheading an anti- National Security Agency protest on June 5 th to Reset the Net. One peculiarity of the campaign is its lack of coverage from many mainstream media sources. By ShannonPerry.

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