GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2023

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The organizations include: Mary’s Place : Amazon is giving $6 million to the nonprofit to support its ongoing operations and to provide funding toward a new development of co-located affordable housing and family shelter and services in Burien, Wash. The $9 million in donations is the largest cash donation in this space so far by Amazon.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Girls Who Code, the nonprofit organization that aims to get more women and girls interested in the field of computer science, has debuted what it calls the “first ever” codable music video. The Doja Cat codable music video. Photo by Girls Who Code. Once you click the music video, the experience begins. Screenshot: Emma Roth / The Verge.

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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. As part of its program, Housing Connector guarantees rent payment and promises $5,000 in damage insurance. Bidding wars abound.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

“It seemed too good to be true — free classes for six months, a paid internship, partnerships with great companies in my area, high graduation and employment rates, and lastly, an emphasis on social justice,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. Mariya Burrows.

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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. Denver and Dallas and has helped more then 6,200 people get housing.

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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

MAY 16, 2020

Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. ” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. This after-school and summer program focuses on bringing STEM education to BIPOC kids in the greater Seattle area.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

The City of Seattle launched a new program this week designed to provide necessary technology to people of color and other marginalized groups who are looking for jobs. The first round of refurbished laptops were donated to 20 participants in the program earlier this month. Seattle City Hall. Flickr Photo / Daniel X. O’Neil).

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

Three years later, the high school graduate is doing her own teaching for the nonprofit. In the spring she completed her associate degree in computer science through the Running Start program at Highline College. It’s another lesson for a young woman intent on working in social justice and tech.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For decades, we’ve been investing in innovation, partnerships, and programs that apply our technology, scale, and talented workforce to drive human progress – all intending to have a measurable influence on some of the complex challenges important to our business, customers, the communities we serve and society at large.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 8, 2021

Due to both internal and external pressure for directing maximum funding to their program work, non-profit associations generally tend to underinvest in technology. Using computers and mobile phones, and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, help in gathering and circulating knowledge and information quite effectively.

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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve always had a social justice kind of pull.”. Dewing, who holds a law degree from the University of Washington, worked for a nonprofit legal aid program early in her career and was involved with immigrant advocacy and street youth while in law school. Your preferred social network? I’m not big on social media.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. Statsig raised $43 million in 2022 from Sequoia Capital, with participation from Madrona Venture Group. The company’s total funding to date is $53 million.

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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

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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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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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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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. 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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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2023

Such designs provide opportunities for social interaction and can reinvigorate the public realm. Such initiatives create opportunities for communities to express themselves creatively, fostering social connection and engagement. Seattle is blessed with the Olympic Sculpture Park as well as a variety of public art.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

As a critical part of the governance ecosystem, we impact the economy, social welfare, and all of those people who rely on these organizations to deliver the outcomes they need. 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

JUNE 4, 2020

COVID-19 has ravaged the economy and unraveled social safety nets that provide meals for people who are hungry. 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 30, 2021

Bank of America recognized that leadership this past summer by selecting Li as one of hundreds of Student Leaders for 2021, a program that helps prepare young people to enter the workforce through hands-on skill- building and leadership development. It appealed to her because she’s on pre-med track and hopes to become a physician.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Scott’s philanthropy has also won praise for its no-strings-attached approach that empowers nonprofits to use funds as they see fit. The organizations receiving the gifts include groups focused on education, charter schools, global nonprofits, LGBTQ efforts, mental health and disability groups, and immigrant and refugee programs.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2020

When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., Kuria is doing his part in trying to drum up awareness for the support of Black-owned businesses, sometimes called BOBs, including a social media campaign dubbed “Do The BOB.” BOB Photo). BOB Image).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Somewhere along the way, Dogra determined that she could do more with technology to impact the social causes that were important to her. She wasn’t confident that she would even get into the program, or that she even had any interest in computer science. 18-year-old now says she’s planning on studying computer science.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit that owns a for-profit arm with “capped” profits : First-round investors would stop earning after their shares multiply in value a hundredfold , with profits beyond that going into OpenAI’s nonprofit. (How much teeth the board has had in practice is debatable.)

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sawant’s proposed legislation would be a first-in-the-nation attempt to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. Samir Khobragade , a former Amazon engineer and current senior director of software engineering for cloud platforms at NetApp, has worked in tech for 26 years.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And that’s not the only new experiment for Blue Origin’s five-year-old New Shepard flight test program: This 13th test flight will be the first to be flown since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and the first to include extra COVID-19 safety measures. Both payload flights were funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

-based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. It seems that time may have come.

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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 3, 2020

I don’t mean just giving it to nonprofits that are run by white leaders who have a white savior complex. But when we think about financial disparities, that even exists in the nonprofit industrial complex.” “Many of you have social responsibility programs and employee resource groups. .

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Apprenti, a nonprofit program of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), announced three additions to its leadership team: Al Cave promoted to COO.

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