Google Cloud research credits expand to nonprofits
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Google Cloud is extending research credits to nonprofit researchers, according to an announcement in a company blog post. Read More.
MacKenzie Scott issues $640M in grants to 361 nonprofits through open call process
GeekWire
MARCH 19, 2024
One year ago, Yield Giving launched an open call to “community-led, community-focused” nonprofits that serve individuals and families of limited means and groups that have faced “discrimination and other systemic obstacles.” The total sum being granted is $640 million.
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Australian Nonprofit Cyber Security Is So Poor It Might Be Affecting Donations
Tech Republic Security
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Research from Infoxchange indicates that poor cyber security practices in Australia’s not-for-profit sector are putting its donors’ and communities’ data at risk.
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Seattle tech leaders launch nonprofit to push for greater transparency in AI training data
GeekWire
MARCH 9, 2024
A new nonprofit, the Seattle-based Transparency Coalition , is aiming to address this issue. They decided to found the Transparency Coalition as a nonprofit organization to address these problems through policy advocacy and public education. Ensuring use of personal data and copyrighted content is opt-in rather than opt-out.
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Washington Research Foundation gives $1.2M to help UW, WSU researchers commercialize their tech
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Washington Research Foundation , a Seattle-based nonprofit that funds research and scholarship in Washington state, awarded more than $1.2 The money will support the Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), a UW effort to help researchers commercialize their innovations.
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Gates Foundation gives $9.35M to Seattle digital health nonprofit for diagnostic testing
GeekWire
APRIL 18, 2023
Audere Image) Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere will advance its technology to improve the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests with $9.35 The nonprofit, launched in 2018, previously received funding from the Gates Foundation, as well as PATH , FIND , the Aurum Institute , and other global health partners.
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Nonprofit supported by Paul Allen’s foundation studies link between lynx and burned habitats
GeekWire
JANUARY 30, 2023
(Bigstock Photo) A wildlife research nonprofit backed by the Paul G. Home Range Wildlife Research is a nonprofit that conducts research, offers field training for biologists, and works with local communities to connect them with their landscape.
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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 12, 2023
A 2017 poll in the Pew Research Center report found that 50% of women said they had experienced gender discrimination at work , while only 19% of men said the same. I am, and have always been, blown away by what Ada can offer students as a nonprofit organization,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf.
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IBM and Cleveland Clinic working on quantum computing-based healthcare research
TechSpot
MARCH 27, 2023
The supposedly revolutionary capabilities of its Watson supercomputer never became real, but IBM is still working to try and advance computer technology for healthcare research. Read Entire Article
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Nonprofits accept cryptocurrency as Bitcoin and Ether values spike – is it a fad or the next frontier?
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
The new website for donating cryptocurrency to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. As the values of Bitcoin and Ether are hovering near record highs, America’s nonprofits are in the peak months of their annual fundraising. The Arnold Building on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center campus. This is brand new.
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Nonprofit uses AWS grant to put 756 terabytes of cancer research data in the cloud
Tech Republic Cloud
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab are cleaning up genome data and speeding up the research process.
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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Michelle Cruz, research scientist for Banyu Carbon, adjusting some research apparatus. GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Michelle Cruz, research scientist for Banyu Carbon, adjusting some research apparatus. The scientists were researching the effect of ocean conditions predicted for the end of the century.
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Researchers: Instagram 'Bullied' Us Into Halting Algorithmic Research
Gizmodo
AUGUST 13, 2021
A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram’s algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook “bullied” its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that was collected with consent from Instagram users. Read more.
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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests
GeekWire
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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New renderings show Univ. of Washington building that will house clean energy research and more
GeekWire
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research centers in clean energy, medical science and more. (Wexford Science + Technology Image). ” The 340,000-square-foot, 11-story building will be located at 3919 University Way N.E.
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Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact
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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Released from court oversight, a Seattle research institution rebrands and resets
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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Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group leave to join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit
The Verge
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Senior researcher Alex Hanna, and software engineer Dylan Baker, will join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit research institute, Distributed AI Research (DAIR). Starting tomorrow I'm joining @timnitGebru at @DAIRInstitute as Director of Research. Today's my last day at Google.
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AWS, Google, and Mozilla back national AI research cloud bill in Congress
Venture Beast
JUNE 30, 2020
Tech giants joined universities and nonprofits and backed a national AI research cloud, something supporters say will help the U.S. innovate and compete. Read More.
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Benaroya Research Institute awarded $5.8M from NIH for immunology-related COVID research
GeekWire
JULY 14, 2020
Jane Buckner, left, Benaroya Research Institute president and BRI researcher Steven Zielger are among the BRI scientists receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health to pursue immune response-related COVID-19 projects. Benaroya Research Institute Photo). The local leader for the 14-month study is Dr. Buckner.
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Swedish Health Services launches new cancer research center with $20M from Paul Allen
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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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards
CTOvision
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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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation
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).
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center names new board chair and adds trustees
GeekWire
JUNE 25, 2020
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center named a new chair of its board of trustees, Kathy Surace-Smith , a senior vice president at NanoString Technologies and life sciences industry veteran who has served on the board for the past six years. McIlwain remains on the board of the Seattle-based research institute as immediate past chair.
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Researchers detail huge hack-for-hire campaigns against environmentalists
The Verge
JUNE 10, 2020
“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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UW prevails in lawsuit filed by developer that lost bid to build new clean energy research facility
GeekWire
MARCH 8, 2023
Last Friday, Judge Carol Murphy sided with the university in finding that ARE’s final claim “lacks standing as a disappointed bidder” in its quest to develop a building currently referred to as W27 , which will house research centers in clean energy, medical science and more. Pasadena, Calif.-based
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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’
GeekWire
JULY 12, 2023
The study , “Survey of the Video Game Reissue Market in the United States,” was written by Phil Salvador, the library director of the Video Game History Foundation , with the assistance of a team of student researchers from the University of Washington Information School. were still available for legal purchase.
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Inside the intense world of COVID-19 science, and unexpected findings from Seattle researchers
GeekWire
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Pre-pandemic the chemist and biotech entrepreneur was conducting cutting-edge cancer research. The Institute for Systems Biology scientists are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to coordinate the research with patients, collect clinical data and process the vast numbers of data points. This has been crazy,” Heath said. ISB Image).
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Allen Institute leader Allan Jones to step down after nearly 18 years at Seattle research organization
GeekWire
JANUARY 7, 2021
Jones was one of the four founding employees when the nonprofit got off the ground as the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and became its first CEO in 2010. The Allen Institute employs more than 500 people that conduct research across various scientific disciplines.
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Infectious Disease Research Institute is working on a multiplier effect for coronavirus vaccine
GeekWire
JUNE 2, 2020
Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi work in their lab at Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, where their research team developed a vaccine candidate that may be able to protect against COVID-19. Corey Casper is CEO of Seattle’s Infectious Disease Research Institute. Baylor College of Medicine Photo).
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New website helps engineers find biomedical challenges that crown winning algorithms
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Sage Bionetworks , a Seattle nonprofit, this month launched OpenChallenges , a free website where people offering and participating in biomedical challenges can find new events and match-ups. The nonprofit is eager to create a standardized process for the logistics of setting up the challenges, which can be labor intensive and expensive.
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Get the scoop on the Mars Society’s plan to establish a tech institute, maybe in Seattle
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The nonprofit Mars Society is getting set to take the next giant leap in its mission to support Red Planet exploration and settlement, by establishing a Mars Technology Institute to develop the tools and processes those settlers will need. The institute would be structured as a nonprofit organization, funded by tax-deductible contributions.
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Seattle researchers zero in on COVID virus mutation that could be driving spread of new variants
GeekWire
MARCH 3, 2021
Veronika Tchesnokova, a researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Seattle startup ID Genomics, is the first author of a new study on a worrisome mutation in the COVID virus. (UW But the research at this point is limited, and experts differ in their opinions of the relative threat. UW Photo).
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AI Weekly: Continual learning offers a path toward more humanlike AI
Venture Beast
APRIL 9, 2021
Continual learning might offer a path toward more human-like AI, the members of nonprofit research group ContinualAI believe. Read More.
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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes
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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Microsoft partners with OpenAI to advance AI research with Azure
Tech Republic Cloud
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Nonprofit research organization OpenAI recently chose Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud platform, to further support their research and innovations in the space.
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Tech Moves: Qumulo co-founder returns; Allen Institute adds execs; and more
GeekWire
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder. Aaron Passey. LinkedIn Photo).
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UW prevails in lawsuit filed by developer that lost bid to build new clean energy research facility
GeekWire
MARCH 8, 2023
Last Friday, Judge Carol Murphy sided with the university (see ruling below) in finding that ARE’s final claim “lacks standing as a disappointed bidder” in its quest to develop a building currently referred to as W27 , which will house research centers in clean energy, medical science and more. Pasadena, Calif.-based
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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy
Vox
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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Blue Origin is ready to launch New Shepard spaceship after more than a year on hold
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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MacKenzie Scott launches new website that details her giving process and lists recipients of $14B
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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Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge
GeekWire
JUNE 28, 2023
Microsoft says its related Generative AI Skills Grant Challenge will support nonprofit, social enterprise, and academic or research institutions that use generative AI for social and economic good. The skills initiative includes what Microsoft calls the first Professional Certificate on Generative AI in online learning.
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AI could make us conversant with critters, unlocking conservation tools – and serious risks
GeekWire
DECEMBER 26, 2023
The Earth Species Project (ESP) is partnering with researchers to develop new tools for understanding animal vocalizations to help save wildlife. A nonprofit called Earth Species Project , or ESP, is on a trajectory to talk with animals — but with a much higher purpose than my intended goals with Roxy.
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