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Tech Moves: Koru founder joins startup advisory firm; Portland Seed Fund adds principal; and more

GeekWire

“VCs refer us into their portfolios because they understand the value/upside we create and we do a lot to educate their whole portfolio,” Hamilton told GeekWire. His role at Portland Seed Fund is being funded by nonprofit Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network Catalyst, the Portland Business Journal reported.

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Researchers detail huge hack-for-hire campaigns against environmentalists

The Verge

“The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling,” Citizen Lab’s report says. The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling”.

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Benefits of a Digital Library for Associations and Non-Profit Organizations

Kitaboo

These organizations, which are more often than not nonprofit associations, still store their sensitive data in the form of hard copies. Fortunately, this attitude of nonprofits is slowly taking a turn for the better, and many have started espousing the idea of creating a digital archive of their current data. Increased Data Security.

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Automation eases medical record sharing at JHS

CIO Business Intelligence

JHS is a nonprofit academic medical system in Miami, Fla., JHS is a nonprofit academic medical system in Miami, Fla., It also works with a multitude of referring organizations, many of them private practices. JHS typically electronically faxes medical records to referring organizations. Automate and simplify.

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Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

GeekWire

The Day 1 Academies Fund is gearing up to open the inaugural school in its new network of full scholarship Montessori-inspired preschools in underserved communities. The nonprofit, backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion Day One Fund , will open a new school on Oct. 19 in Des Moines, Wash.,

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DEI that works: 5 companies reaping the benefits of IT diversity strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

AllianceBernstein works directly with job training nonprofit Year Up , which connects the global asset management corporation with tech talent from underserved populations. LinkedIn offers two unique programs alongside YearUp: LinkedIn Coaches and Investment Days, which are referred to as InDays. And it is the Nashville, Tenn.-based

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Former Facebook moderators worried for the upcoming US election

The Verge

She didn’t seem to have the same perspective, there was no reference I could use,” Ferguson said. In 2020 on the world’s largest social network, clickbait still rules lies and hate still travels on Facebook like a California wildfire,” said Cori Crider, co-founder of Foxglove.