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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

GeekWire

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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TheWMarketplace wants to take on Amazon with its new e-commerce site for women-led businesses

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It includes retail sales and professional services, as well as nonprofit organizations and a blog about women’s economic issues, creating more of a sense of community than a platform focused strictly on shopping. Nonprofits are included on the site for free. “We plan to take Amazon on,” said Isler, who is CEO.

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Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

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The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual guide for recommended animal charities, and it just released its list for this year. For example, it examines social psychology data on how to influence public opinion about animals in a way that actually leads to behavior change. It also conducts grassroots legislative advocacy.

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Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

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Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Its customers include healthcare providers, educators, retailers and restaurants that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices. He also co-founded Clidentity.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. The program’s second cohort is focusing on data in digital health care transformation. (GeekWire is a dot.LA

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

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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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Facebook buys REI’s new HQ for $367M, expanding Seattle-area footprint beyond 3M square feet

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The social media giant paid $367.6 Previously: REI looks to sell brand new Seattle-area HQ as pandemic forces retailer to rethink remote work. But the outdoor retailer decided in August to sell the buildings and land due to the pandemic and shift to remote work. (Image via Wright Runstad & Company / Spring District).