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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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

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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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. This decision to repeatedly under budget for technology and staff training prevents non-profit associations from reaching their full potential. Program evaluation.

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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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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

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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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. Today BIT includes a for-profit and a nonprofit side, each of which seeks to break down barriers, create opportunity, and diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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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

MAY 18, 2020

The novel coronavirus has brought with it fears of infection, massive job losses, the challenges of teaching kids at home, social isolation, and the list goes on. The startup has a dozen customers, primarily university programs that train counselors and therapists. Lyssn Image). In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

But the bottom line is that shifting in a matter of weeks from in-person instruction that has been honed over decades to entirely online education, with little to no training and using technology that wasn’t built for the job, was destined to go badly. Fewer meaningful social connections. Teachers didn’t fail.

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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

JULY 6, 2021

In June, Seattle’s Perkins Coie launched the Black Boardroom Initiative to increase the diversity of S&P 500 corporate boards by training cohorts of potential candidates. The initiative has support from major Northwest tech companies and provides a free, six-month training program for “board-ready” Black executives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. What we must do is continuously train our people.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

And not just any local nonprofits and organizations: Amazon shrewdly planned to “intentionally seek partnerships with some organizations that work closely with our opposition.” Another question asked, “How will this earn Amazon Political capital, in regions where we are facing unionization efforts?”.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2015

This latter scenario has been driven by the lack of industry consensus on security and a dearth of nonvendor specific cloud security training and certifications. This post was written as part of the Dell Insight Partners program, which provides news and analysis about the evolving world of tech.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2015

This latter scenario has been driven by the lack of industry consensus on security and a dearth of nonvendor specific cloud security training and certifications. This post was written as part of the Dell Insight Partners program, which provides news and analysis about the evolving world of tech.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One semester, Sandra Aistars, director of the Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University, had law students do takedown notices for artists and nonprofits and tracked their interactions. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. And so we started to conceive how could we build a program that would bring people from the community into the data enterprise at Hopkins.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

It’s not some subtle game-playing program that can outthink humanity’s finest or a mechanically advanced robot that backflips like an Olympian. No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar. GPT stands for “generative pre-training.”) percent of GPT-3’s training data. So far, so simple.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

The company provides back-end tech and software to help companies build training and onboarding programs. Most of my clients were endowed nonprofits, foundations and universities, and the returns we achieved for them went back into helping further their missions, so there was a lot of meaning to the work we did there.”. “I

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. But part of the problem is also in recruiting new talent.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. But part of the problem is also in recruiting new talent.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. Release bite-sized, creative training experiences. It's just not the case.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. I shouldn't say I launched I along with a number of InfoSec women leaders launched the nonprofit and we have about 85 cyber and high tech leaders in the group and it is a networking and support group for senior women in cyber and technology. That's a that is a trend.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. Itucas continues to lead product and operations at the startup, which participated in the 2018 Techstars Seattle accelerator program. Students also receive “wraparound” support including career skill development and social services.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 22, 2019

To achieve employee engagement , you might use gamification techniques , enhance the training process, organize fun events etc. Forms for joining, for renewing membership, for signing up for a new program. Sometimes members might not renew membership or sign up for a program only to avoid the hassles of paperwork.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. OpenAI, the AI developer that built the ChatGPT language model, recently announced the release of APIs, or application programming interfaces, for its ChatGPT and Whisper, a speech recognition model.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

When you have a lot of video conferences to attend, the Otter Bot may be programmed to join in on the calls and transcribe the conversations for you. To share your transcript with others, tap the share icon at the top right corner of the app and choose from various options, such as email, text message, social media, or copy link.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. Next to that we had a virtual reality training that the Air Force uses for pilot training. And so that was a a high school level program. And his work certainly made the evening news.

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2022

“Child care workers, the people providing this labor and this service that is absolutely vital to the continuing of our economy and families, are so underpaid that they can’t afford to cover their basic needs,” said Asha Banerjee, an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. I’m down the drain.”.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

And people are talking about hacking control system tackling PLCs and what we quickly realize is they don't they've never touched to be able to say they have no idea what these control systems are how they work their security researchers, you know that that maybe the firmware or maybe they found a program or something somewhere.

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