GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Gage, a nearly 35-year-old nonprofit, currently occupies space in the St. Gage says a street-level retail space will be activated as a creative hub, turning the area near The Spheres and other Amazon office towers into a “district where tech and the arts coexist.” Nicholas Building next to St. Mark’s Cathedral.

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) An Amazon Fresh store in North Seattle is the world’s first grocery store to be certified as Zero Carbon by an international nonprofit promoting sustainable buildings. It’s also the first Amazon site to land the designation, the company announced on Thursday.

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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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GeekWire

JUNE 17, 2021

The startup plans to expand its online marketplace that lets customers and retailers buy and sell cannabis. Leslie, a former Amazon exec who was Leafly’s CEO for less than two years, is now a founder of a farming nonprofit called Living Roots. Leafly also serves as an educational resource. It also makes money from advertising.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2022

ILFI is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing sustainable building practices and many of the practices Amazon has undertaken meet the organization’s requirement for zero carbon certification. Amazon earlier this month said it would close its bookstores, 4-star, and Pop Up retail outlets to focus on grocery and fashion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. As a nonprofit, the PGA of America is not alone in seeking the ease and efficiencies of migrating entirely to the public cloud, according to Sid Nag, vice president and analyst at Gartner.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The fund has hired some notable folks from environmental nonprofits to build its leadership team. The Seattle-based cloud and online retail company that Bezos founded has been making its own headlines on the climate front. Last week, Amazon announced investments from its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Evergreen Goodwill is a nonprofit founded in 1923 that now operates 25 retail stores and more than 30 donation centers across Washington state, managing more than 2,000 employees. Johnson McKee was previously director of Amazon’s Worldwide Returns unit and spent 12 years at the Seattle tech giant.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

The idea for Blues came from Ozzie’s work as a board director at Safecast , a data monitoring nonprofit that launched in response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Blues has many large enterprise customers across industries such as agriculture, automotive, construction, healthcare, retail, and transportation.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2022

The brands sell across multiple channels, including direct-to-consumer, wholesale, and potentially later in retail stores. They also run the nonprofit Why Not You Foundation. The company is co-led by former Lululemon and Starbucks exec Christine Day , and employs less than 30 people.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

Mann spent more than two years at SoundCommerce, which aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency. SeaCiti, a nonprofit of the Washington Technology Industry Association that aims to help tech workers create local impact, hired Terrence Stevenson as director. Joseph L u, founder of Portland, Ore.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The state instructs residents not to put batteries in the trash and to find a drop-off location, which includes transfer stations and retail outlets like Home Depot, Staples and bike shops. Cities, solid waste utilities and enviro-leaning groups came out in support of the measure. It would then go to the full Senate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We We coordinate donations from manufacturers, retailers, grocers. MealConnect connects retailers with food banks to support local food rescue. We source a lot of food.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The City received pro-bono support from the Google.org Fellowship program , a part of Google’s philanthropic arm that provides technical expertise to help nonprofits and civic entities solve technical challenges. Smart Cities Connect named CiviForm one the 50 most transformative smart projects of 2023.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

At the heart of the issue is a debate over whether libraries, which often pay far higher than retail price for physical and ebook copies of books, ultimately harm publisher sales by letting people check out copies for free. The eBook titles from Amazon Publishing are not available to libraries for lending at any price or any terms.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

“Our communities are being sacrificed in the name of economic development,” José Acosta-Córdova, an organizer at the Chicago-based nonprofit Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, told Consumer Reports. E-commerce is largely responsible for more and bigger warehouses. 1 billion in online sales translates to 1.25

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Brain circuitry expert Rui Costa took over from founding Allen Institute CEO Allan Jones as CEO and president of the nonprofit research organization. She previously spent nine years at Amazon in a variety of executive leadership development roles and also managed programs for MBA and retail leadership development.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2022

He’s involved with nonprofits such as NPower and Catalyst; supports Youth Eastside Services in Seattle; and is a board member at Seattle startup Amperity. Johnson was also part of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Wilson also passed to his wife and entrepreneurial partner, as the two toasted their effort to build something that would promote sustainability and give back to causes that the two of them have championed, including their Why Not You Foundation, a Seattle nonprofit dedicated to education, children’s health and fighting poverty.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2024

.” – Randy Hodgins, UW vice president for external affairs The university’s vision is to transform the area into a walkable urban hub that incorporates buildings for academic research across disciplines; is home to startups and companies; provides housing; and attracts retail shops and restaurants that include diverse owners.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Its customers include healthcare providers, educators, retailers and restaurants that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices. Janes previously spent more than 14 years at Amazon, most recently as a vice president working on the company’s physical retail stores. Prior to Chef, he was an engineering leader at Intuit, Oracle.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says in a blog post that the company would give $100 million in ad grants to the CDC Foundation, the World Health Organization, and other nonprofits. It also plans to invest $50 million in partnerships with public health agencies to help get information about vaccines to underserved communities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The US auto retail industry realized this almost two decades ago, and came together to create the nonprofit corporation Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail. One of the things that lubricates data flow around and between enterprises is compliance with standards.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on women and minority founders. The startup sells to retailers, more than 30 spas, and is in the process of building its direct-to-consumer platform. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Open up your networks.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Other factors include fair labor practices, construction timelines and commitments from multiple retailers to offer service over new networks. Volume I concerns the process by which local governments, nonprofits and tribes can challenge the FCC’s broadband service maps.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Civil rights nonprofit Fight for the Future announced that more than 35 other organizations had joined it in demanding that retailers stop using facial recognition in their stores. However, only Portland, Oregon , currently has laws limiting how private businesses can use facial recognition.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2021

megawatts (MW) of solar power this year alone, a more than 10-fold increase over a decade ago, according to an industry nonprofit. Volunteer homeowners allow the nonprofit to install a home on their property. Residents in the state installed an estimated 38.6 The total residential solar statewide is about 213 MW.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Amazon Toll Road, a report from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), found that Amazon charged third-party sellers a total of $121 billion in fees this year alone. If you’re a company that makes or retails consumer products, you’re damned if you don’t sell on Amazon and damned if you do,” Mitchell said.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began in 2011 when LinkedIn’s first CEO, Jeff Weiner, saw the value in working with the Year Up to open the talent pipeline and to give back. Making an impact on interns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

x for business value even before ChatGPT became a household name. That is why the omnichannel used-car retailer earned a coveted spot on the 2023 CIO 100 Award list: for its early, innovative use of a nascent AI technology that led to a spike in page views as well as higher SEO ranking and placement that drove substantial business growth.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon is under intense scrutiny for its impact on communities and brick-and-mortar retailers, even as the company cites the economic benefits of its booming third-party marketplace, and the jobs provided by its growing fulfillment and distribution network. billion pledge. Amazon’s market value now exceeds $1.6 ”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2023

As You Sow , a nonprofit supporting shareholder empowerment, spearheaded the effort. Costa was a founder of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an organization formed in 2019 that pressured the tech and retail giant to take action on climate change.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. Facebook says it will maintain its current offices in Seattle. REI was set to move from its Kent, Wash.,

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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. It does that by raising awareness, doing corporate outreach, and collaborating with producers and retailers. Disclosure: ACE helped fund some of Future Perfect ’s work in 2020, 2021, and 2022.)

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