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. Foundry10’s other co-lead is researcher Mike Scanlon.

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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 2, 2022

When a court-appointed overseer took hold of the operations of the Infectious Disease Research Institute in early 2020 it was unclear how the Seattle organization would weather the change. The institute’s once-renowned tuberculosis vaccine program has been mainly absorbed by Seattle Children’s Research Institute.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Swedish Health Services announced the launch of a new research center with $20 million from the late Seattle philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen Research Center at Swedish Cancer Institute will focus on three areas of research and patient care. Vulcan Photo). The Paul G.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The homepage for the City of Seattle’s CiviForm website, a tool that makes it faster and easier for residents to apply to city-related benefit and discount programs. The tool works by easing some of the time, computer literacy and language barriers that can create roadblocks for residents seeking to access benefit programs.

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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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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Awards target academic research and commercialization activities in the Commonwealth . million in funding for 14 awards to Virginia’s colleges, universities, and research organizations as part of the FY2014 fall solicitation of the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF). Matching Funds Program .

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MAY 29, 2015

The Commonwealth of Virginia announced research commercialization awards today, including many friends and readers of CTOvision, so we wanted to share this announcement. Governor McAuliffe Announces Research Commercialization Awards. Investments target research and commercialization activities to spur innovation ~ .

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

She researched “low-cost options to break into the technology industry,” and when she came across the Ada Developers Academy, she didn’t believe it was real at first. “It After connecting with a former Adie — the nickname for students in the program — and confirming the program was indeed real, Burrows says she “couldn’t wait to apply.”.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

features programs for performers of all experience levels and abilities. Recipients indicated their greatest needs were for salaries and labor, programming, and rent and facility costs. “The Applications for the 2024 program will run from Feb. Cascadia Music in Okanogan County, Wash., Steve Mitchell Photo) The Paul G.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

(Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to send its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on an uncrewed research mission as early as Dec. 18, marking the company’s first launch since a rocket engine malfunction spoiled a similar uncrewed mission more than a year ago.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

WSU researchers Tom Kawula (right), Kariuki Njenga (center), and colleagues work on a project to test for the MERS-COV virus. Washington State University this week launched a new $125 million program to collect and analyze animal viruses with the aim of preventing the next pandemic. The program is funded with an award from the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2022

Global BPO research firm The Everest Group recently ranked AllianceBernstein first among large financial services companies for tech employment based on its high scores for employee satisfaction, work environment, compensation, career opportunities, and diversity. Diversifying the talent pipeline. The Nashville, Tenn.-based Karl Sprules.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

Crewed flights were suspended after an uncrewed research mission went awry in 2022 , but a repeat of that uncrewed mission went off without a hitch last December. Kennedy to enter an Air Force flight training program that was regarded as a pathway to NASA’s astronaut corps, and went on to win an Air Force recommendation to join NASA.

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APRIL 12, 2022

In February, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit research and workplace equity strategy organization, published the results of an analysis of more than 200 start-ups, schools, nonprofits, and other programs focused on the development of Black talent in technology. To read this article in full, please click here

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CTOvision

JANUARY 9, 2014

By Bob Gourley CIT Announces Second of Two FY2014 Solicitations for the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) . The solicitation targets research and commercialization performed by Virginia public and private universities, nonprofit research institutions, and young companies.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Since her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, Scott has given away more than $14 billion to more than 1,600 nonprofit organizations, which are all listed on the new site , along with the amount of money received. She has stayed out of the limelight during that time, only penning a handful of essays to describe her donations.

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APRIL 12, 2022

In February, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit research and workplace equity strategy organization, published the results of an analysis of more than 200 start-ups, schools, nonprofits, and other programs focused on the development of Black talent in technology. To read this article in full, please click here

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual guide for recommended animal charities, and it just released its list for this year. ACE researches and promotes the most high-impact, effective ways to help animals. Disclosure: ACE helped fund some of Future Perfect ’s work in 2020, 2021, and 2022.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In recent years, researchers have begun questioning how the philanthropy sector tracks charitable giving. 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.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Can a nonprofit research institution operate more effectively by taking a page from the commercial biotech industry? In addition to supporting Seattle Children’s research, the nonprofit facility will provide resources and space for outside partner institutions and biotech companies working on pediatric medicine.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2022

She will oversee the company’s product design and user experience research. Last year saw Zillow Group undergo a major pivot, shutting down its iBuying program Zillow Offers. Brain circuitry expert Rui Costa took over from founding Allen Institute CEO Allan Jones as CEO and president of the nonprofit research organization.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2024

UW leaders recently shared the name of the inaugural structure, which they’re calling Brightwork — a nautical term for the varnished wood on boats, as well as an allusion to the quality of research and entrepreneurship that hopefully takes place in the facility. to develop what it calls “knowledge communities.”

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits.

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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. Such issues have played a large role in the rise of organizations focused on empowering and supporting women in tech roles. Black Girls Code.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2024

She was most recently executive director of clinical operations and research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, and previously spent eight years at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Denene Prophet-Williams joined Seattle’s Fred Hutch as its new chief nursing officer and vice president.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Founded in 2020, Moonbeam offers tech consulting services including market intelligence reports, innovation programming, and strategic sourcing. climate policy, is the new director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute. . climate policy, is the new director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $75 million over the next four years to increase enrollment in post-secondary education programs in Washington state. The endeavor is the new focus of the foundation’s Washington State Initiative, which supports state-specific education programs.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Other personnel changes: Joaquin Quiñonero Candela , a former researcher at Microsoft who was most recently distinguished tech lead for responsible AI at Facebook, joined LinkedIn as a technical fellow for AI. iUrban Teen , a STEM+Arts program for underrepresented teens, announced new directors.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The BPDA also organizes community outreach programs for students, including the Student Information Technology Education and Scholarship (SITES), National High School Computer Competitions (HSCC), and Youth Technology Camp (YTC) to increase representation in tech and create pipelines for future talent.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

-based $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund , launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, appointed Paul Bodnar to help lead programs on climate finance, industry and diplomacy. Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Yakima, Wash.-based

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