GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2023

Washington Middle School three years ago entered a partnership with the Technology Access Foundation (TAF), an education nonprofit led by Millines Dziko, and began incorporating TAF’s pedagogy at the racially and economically diverse school. TAF has a less-intensive model called the STEMbyTAF School Transformation program.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. Dungeons & Dragons dice come in odd shapes and sizes.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

families chosen to participate in a guaranteed income program received their first $500 check this month, according to MyNorthwest. The program launched by the Mayors for a Guaranteed Income is backed by $18 million in donations from Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter. City of Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 11, 2020

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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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2022

The west part of the UW campus, envisioned as an area for collaboration among various business and nonprofit organizations, has been dubbed “Portage Bay Crossing.” ” (UW Image). The building will be built in the west part of the campus, an area newly dubbed “Portage Bay Crossing.”

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2023

The nonprofit has multiple programs including: Designated “anchor communities” in which they form coalitions of organizations that interact with homeless youth to coordinate their outreach efforts. . Brilliant Black Minds is a program targeting the middle of the pipeline: prep for engineering job interviews.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The two teamed up again to quickly modify the platform to meet the needs of childcare facilities and families. Pivotal Labs, working through its Pivotal Act program that benefits nonprofits, provided two months of free engineering for the project. Beatrice Speck is a Pivotal Labs engineering manager who worked with Carina.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Shobhit Agarwal Agarwal studied computer science and was a program manager at Microsoft before pursuing an acting career. In their words: “In addition to my policy and advocacy credentials, I offer critical thinking and budget oversight experience from past roles as an engineer, nonprofit treasurer, and finance chair.”

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis and King County Councilmember Joe McDermott are proposing legislation to provide a financial boost to SIFF, the new owners of the Cinerama movie theater, to support the nonprofit’s purchase and operation of the venue. The funds would come from windfall admissions tax revenues.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2021

They come from universities, public schools and nonprofits, and are working with kids from elementary school into college and supporting fellow teachers as well. We invite you to meet our STEM Educators of the Year for 2021, presented by DreamBox Learning , as part of our 2021 GeekWire Awards celebration: Lauren Bricker, Paul G.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

is a consortium led by Gonzaga University that will work to meet the growing demand for lightweight composite materials for the next generation of sustainable commercial and military aircraft. The hubs program was authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act, which was signed by President Biden in August 2022.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

The penguin was created by Washed Ashore, an Oregon-based nonprofit that makes art from plastic pollution. “This is a meeting to determine how we can save humans and civilization for the next several centuries,” said Washington Gov. An art installation at the Circularity 23 conference main stage. ”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

LGBTQ Tech LGBTQ Tech offers programs and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities and works to “educate organizations and policy makers on the unique needs LGBTQ+ individuals face when it comes to tech.” 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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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide programs that discount or even waive bills for patients that meet certain income criteria, but the assistance can be difficult to find and apply to. RELATED: ‘The darkest, most bottomless pit in healthcare’: Goodbill raises $3.4M Goodbill navigates that process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Despite public and internal corporate support programs, and increased awareness of male/female disparities in the workplace in terms of positions and salaries, women still come up short of equity in tech job placements. Launched a Veterans Leadership Program. It’s important to remember that confidence starts young.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. While the majority of the group exists online, you can attend an annual conference in London to meet with other Ada’s List members in person.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

Through internship programs, apprenticeships, returnships, and other unique talent and upskilling programs, these examples can help inspire the right DEI strategy for your organization. The company also recently launched an HBCU Scholars Program, providing up to 20 students with scholarships after completing a 9-week summer internship.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

So while other opportunities were much larger, this was one to use all the things I’ve learned during my career in business and technology to help the organization meet its goals. Therefore, we have programs to educate all directors on cybersecurity. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When Bill Neukom showed up at Microsoft as its first general counsel in 1985, he made two critical decisions that have since impacted millions of lives over the last thirty-five years and have been instrumental in creating a program that has inspired thousands of employees to become engaged deeply into their communities.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2021

The nonprofit sea.citi recently convened a panel of Seattle tech leaders to talk about DEI efforts. As people around the country observe the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, companies that pledged to do more to support diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of his death are sharing their progress and ideas.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2021

Folks curious about making angel investments in promising startups can sign up for online training through the new Angel Accelerator program. Paid programming is available from March until mid-May. The program is available for accredited investors. Libes views his program as a next step for the conference graduates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The results at Uplevel — which, fittingly, aims to help organizations meet their goals without burning out engineers — align with the findings of a global study published last month that surveyed more than 900 employees at 33 companies who had participated in a pilot program coordinated by the nonprofit 4 Day Week Global.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2022

“Although I did not plan to return to Starbucks, I know the company must transform once again to meet a new and exciting future where all of our stakeholders mutually flourish.” Johnson also helped Starbucks boost its Rewards membership program, which grew by approximately 30% in fiscal year 2021 to 24.8 million members.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

But as Hoang was managing employee furloughs, she also wanted to meet the calls for help from local food banks. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Dyce discovered Off Their Plate, a nonprofit that uses donations to pay restaurants to prepare meals, while browsing Instagram. Serving up smarter logistics.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Microsoft also launched a global biodiversity program; an ecology-based “Planetary Computer;” and a suite of waste reduction strategies; along with a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund. “We have reached the point globally where humanity depletes the available freshwater supply at a rate of 4.3 “This needs to change.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Kacharian was inspired during a meeting at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center by its approach to fostering spinouts. Delegates were also looking forward to meeting with groups like the trade association Life Science Washington, the City of Bothell, and institutions that have prior or ongoing collaborations with Ukraine. “We

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Some drivers who spoke at a City Council meeting this week said they’re making less money per hour and fewer tips. One driver who spoke at the City Council meeting this week said he was consistently making around $20 per hour before the ordinance went into effect — and now his earnings have been cut by more than half.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

(Xembly Photo) — Ziad Ismail is now chief operating officer of Xembly , a Seattle startup that offers an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, to-do lists and more. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2020

In his interactions with customers in the nonprofit space, many wanted a tool to help them integrate different platforms to manage subscribers, but the only options available were costly packages from big companies that provided additional services they didn’t want. Number of appointments/meetings on your calendar this week?

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2019

These organizations, which are more often than not nonprofit associations, still store their sensitive data in the form of hard copies. These associations have vast amounts of community data that include meeting details, reports of finance, annual records, articles of incorporation, etc. Nonprofit / September 12, 2019.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

Promote transparency and ensure academic and nonprofit access to AI resources, including an annual AI transparency report and expanded computing resources for research. Few others could match its resources to navigate an AI regulatory and licensing program. Smith is drawing on years of preparation for the moment.

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2020

Volunteering as a clean energy ambassador, UW PhD candidate Abbie Ganas led a virtual class via Google Meet with 25 middle school students enrolled in a south King County middle school. CEI receives financial support from the state of Washington, which includes funding for the K-12 outreach program. Courtesy Abbie Ganas). CEI Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

Seattle-area tech giants Microsoft and Amazon have set ambitious carbon reduction targets and invested millions to meet those goals. Initiative supporters say the program amounts to a “hidden gas tax” that is harming Washington residents by raising prices at the pump and jacking up electric bills.

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