Microsoft brings enterprise security to nonprofits and SMBs
Venture Beast
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
As part of a "security for all" push, Microsoft says it is bringing enterprise security to small to midsize businesses and nonprofits. Read More.
Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 21, 2024
Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.
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How are nonprofits using AI and ChatGPT? The focus is on the donor dollars
GeekWire
JUNE 3, 2023
The nonprofit has worked with Microsoft Philanthropies to improve its tech capabilities. Team Rubicon Photo) The nonprofit sector — which encompasses some 1.6 That includes big tech such as Microsoft, Salesforce and Google, as well as smaller ventures including Dataro and Donorbox. million organizations in the U.S.
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Seattle tech leaders launch nonprofit to push for greater transparency in AI training data
GeekWire
MARCH 9, 2024
A new nonprofit, the Seattle-based Transparency Coalition , is aiming to address this issue. They decided to found the Transparency Coalition as a nonprofit organization to address these problems through policy advocacy and public education. … The heart of it all was the inputs of the AI.”
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Amazon keeps fueling philanthropic efforts under leadership of former nonprofit executive
GeekWire
OCTOBER 23, 2023
We’re visible and becoming more visible.” – Alice Shobe, global director of Amazon in the Community Shobe, a long-time nonprofit leader with expertise in low-income housing, was hired in 2017 to launch Amazon in the Community, which marked a significant step philanthropically for the company. We’re out there.
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Gates Foundation gives $9.35M to Seattle digital health nonprofit for diagnostic testing
GeekWire
APRIL 18, 2023
Audere Image) Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere will advance its technology to improve the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests with $9.35 The nonprofit, launched in 2018, previously received funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as PATH , FIND , the Aurum Institute , and other global health partners.
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Tech Moves: Avalara names president; Microsoft vet launches AI forum; Common Room adds product leader
GeekWire
APRIL 16, 2024
. — Stefan Weitz , a longtime tech leader who spent more than 18 years at Microsoft, is leading a new company called HumanX that bills itself as a community and forum for AI. It plans to host events, provide an advisory service, and launch a nonprofit dedicated to responsible AI regulation. Jetson shut down in January.
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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests
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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4 nonprofits fostering diversity and career advancement in IT
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Nonprofit NPower is working to change that by fostering opportunity for those outside traditional IT pipelines through its tuition-free Tech Fundamentals program , which has helped young adults from underserved communities, as well as military members, military spouses, and veterans, forge new careers in IT for over 20 years.
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Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge
GeekWire
JUNE 28, 2023
Kate Behncken, Microsoft Philanthropies corporate vice president. LinkedIn Photo) Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training toolkit for teachers. “We’ll need to revolutionize how we train people, and we believe that AI skills can help.”
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Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers
GeekWire
JANUARY 16, 2024
GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The initiative has 5,000 volunteer mentors in 127 countries, with about 1,000 of those coming from Microsoft. Write a cover letter for this job.
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Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Instacart Photo) Asha Sharma is headed back to Seattle full-time for a new role leading product for Microsoft’s AI platform. ” “I’m ecstatic to be joining Microsoft, the leader in this transformation, to help define and build this future,” she added. Asha Sharma.
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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.
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Deena Pierott works hard for underrepresented youth in STEM, but funding her nonprofit isn’t easy
GeekWire
MARCH 8, 2021
iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott, left, received some funding for her nonprofit from Seattle Seahawks player Bobby Wagner, right. ” Exposure and access is something Pierott would like more of for herself, for iUrban Teen and for the work the nonprofit has been doing over the years. Photo courtesy of Deena Pierott).
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Seattle film nonprofit SIFF supports effort to save Cinerama and could run theater with funding help
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
SIFF , the nonprofit that champions film and the movie-going experience in Seattle, is joining the call to save the Cinerama, the historic movie theater that has been in limbo for almost two years. The Cinerama movie theater in Seattle. GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser).
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Amazon and Microsoft back effort to defeat initiative that would defund Washington state climate efforts
GeekWire
APRIL 17, 2024
(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) More than 100 companies, tribal groups, union organizations, environmental nonprofits and political groups are backing a campaign to defeat a November ballot initiative that would scuttle Washington state’s most impactful climate policy.
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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI chatbots on its copyrighted work
GeekWire
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The newspaper accused OpenAI and Microsoft of “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” The suit , filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of “using The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.”
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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft CVP joins Builder.ai as president; Moonbeam hires Seattle marketing vet
GeekWire
JANUARY 16, 2024
Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai with the same thrill and excitement to be part of something bigger than myself as I experienced when I joined Microsoft in 1992,” Torossian wrote on LinkedIn. . Vahé Torossian. London-based Builder.ai
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Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus
The Verge
JULY 8, 2021
Microsoft is gifting its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. In an internal memo seen by The Verge , the software giant says this one-time bonus “is in recognition of the unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed.”. Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge.
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Washington Technology Industry Association names Kristen Forecki as new board chair
GeekWire
APRIL 16, 2024
Forecki is currently a senior director of experiences and device strategy at Microsoft. The WTIA operates a nonprofit member trade association, a nonprofit tech apprenticeship program, and a for-profit corporation providing business services. She previously worked at Convoy, Rover, and Amazon in various leadership roles.
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Microsoft partners with Team Gleason to build a computer vision dataset for ALS
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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Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more
GeekWire
JULY 13, 2023
(LinkedIn Photo) — Diena Lee Mann , former senior vice president at Seattle startup SoundCommerc e , launched a startup that aims to help business analysts work more effectively with platforms such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker Studio, and others. Prior to his role at Microsoft, Wagner was president of IT services company ManTech.
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Microsoft is selling an ugly MS Paint sweater and part of the proceeds benefit Girls Who Code
The Verge
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Image: Microsoft. Microsoft is getting into the holiday spirit a bit early today by offering an MS Paint-themed “ugly” sweater for sale on its online store , with a portion of the proceeds from each sale donated to Girls Who Code. Microsoft’s ugly Christmas sweater is Windows XP this year.
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Microsoft allies with community colleges to help U.S. train 250k new cybersecurity workers by 2025
GeekWire
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong). government agencies.
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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more
GeekWire
JANUARY 11, 2023
. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles. She also spent four years at Microsoft as a senior marketing manager for Xbox.
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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.
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How the Gates Foundation and Seattle nonprofit PATH are helping get oxygen to India
GeekWire
MAY 15, 2021
million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. Hometown tech giant Microsoft is also lending a hand , using its technology and donations to help the cause. PATH coordinated with vendors to install pressure swing adsorption oxygen generation plants at medical facilities in India.
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With help from Zillow, this nonprofit wants to change the game for high-risk renters
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Seattle nonprofit Housing Connector is trying to level the playing field for the region’s most vulnerable renters — even in the face of escalating housing shortages and soaring costs of living. It’s no secret that there’s a housing crisis in the Seattle area. Bidding wars abound. Rents are up nearly 30% over last year.
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Microsoft announces new cloud platforms built for financial services firms, nonprofits and manufacturers
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
CEO Satya Nadella said these new services will help businesses make faster and more intelligent decisions and build their own tech solutions.
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Here’s how Microsoft is helping India with its COVID-19 catastrophe
GeekWire
MAY 5, 2021
To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. FedEx Photo via Microsoft). Taking action: In a blog post Wednesday, Kate Behncken, head of Microsoft Philanthropies, laid out what the Redmond, Wash.-based
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Fired from Amazon for her activism, Maren Costa is calling for climate action at Microsoft
GeekWire
JANUARY 13, 2023
Microsoft shareholders recently voted on a proposal calling on the company to disclose the climate impacts of its employee retirement funds. As You Sow , a nonprofit supporting shareholder empowerment, spearheaded the effort. In March 2021, Costa landed a new role at Microsoft as a principal design lead. Maren Costa.
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Book Excerpt: How Microsoft leverages employee giving to build a culture of purpose
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
[Editor’s Note: Akhtar Badshah, who led Microsoft’s philanthropic efforts from 2004 to 2014, writes about the roots and impact of the company’s giving campaign in his new book, “Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires Employees & Alumni to Change the World.” This decision meant that Microsoft started picking up the processing fees.
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Microsoft vows to use financial strength to fuel societal change in sweeping racial justice plan
GeekWire
JUNE 23, 2020
Satya Nadella says Microsoft “will use our balance sheet and engagement with suppliers and partners to extend the vision for societal change throughout our ecosystem.” But Nadella’s memo makes it clear that Microsoft sees racial justice as a top priority. of Microsoft’s U.S.
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Microsoft and Seahawks help lead new initiative connecting Washington students to remote learning
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Microsoft, the Seattle Seahawks and Puget Sound Energy have donated to the effort, which is part of the All In WA campaign to help people across Washington who have been harmed by COVID-19. Every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, and the public, private, and nonprofit sectors have come together to make this possible.”.
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Microsoft starts new program to help make more accessible games
The Verge
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Microsoft is expanding its accessibility efforts with a new program for evaluating Xbox and PC games. Developers now have the option to send Microsoft their Xbox or PC title and have it analyzed and validated against the recommendations provided in the XAGs,” says an Xbox blog post published today.
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Seattle tech leaders including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella are investing in cricket teams
GeekWire
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella holds a Kookaburra cricket ball given to him by GeekWire Editor Todd Bishop at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly among a group backing Major League Cricket , a new U.S.-based Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella plays cricket. Microsoft Photo).
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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets
GeekWire
MARCH 1, 2023
In its pursuit of becoming carbon negative, Microsoft has invested in and bought carbon offsets from Climeworks. GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) In January 2020, Microsoft announced its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund, and six months later Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. .
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OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic team up for Frontier AI
Dataconomy
JULY 27, 2023
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.
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Seattle’s Cinerama theater gets $1M grant from King County
GeekWire
AUGUST 16, 2023
The King County Council on Tuesday approved $1 million in funding to the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) to help the nonprofit reopen the Cinerama, the historic Belltown movie theater it purchased in May. SIFF purchased the Cinerama for an undisclosed price from the estate of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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Q&A: Experts say stopping AI is not possible — or desirable
Computerworld Vertical IT
JUNE 1, 2023
In March, the nonprofit Future of Life Institute published an open letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of ChatGPT, the AI-based chatbot created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
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OpenAI taps Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
The decision blindsided even Microsoft, a key OpenAI partner that has invested billions into the company. OpenAI investors, including Microsoft, were reportedly pressuring the board to bring Altman back, according to The New York Times. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was directly involved in the negotiations, The Information reported.
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Tech Moves: Qumulo co-founder returns; Allen Institute adds execs; and more
GeekWire
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder. Samir Diwan , founding CEO of Seattle startup Polly, joined Madrona Venture Labs as partner. —
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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP
GeekWire
MARCH 11, 2024
Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts. Shani, based in Seattle, previously held the same role at GitHub, and was a manager at Microsoft and Amazon.
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