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Amazon is helping a longtime Seattle art school move into modern space at base of HQ building

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Gage, a nearly 35-year-old nonprofit, currently occupies space in the St. The school’s leaders aim to serve a larger, more diverse student body in a central location, closer to more transportation options. Nicholas Building next to St. Mark’s Cathedral.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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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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Tech Moves: Zillow hires Nike exec as first design chief; Allen Institute has new CEO; and more

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She also spent four years at Airbnb, most recently as general manager of its transportation business. Brain circuitry expert Rui Costa took over from founding Allen Institute CEO Allan Jones as CEO and president of the nonprofit research organization. She was most recently vice president of digital design at Nike.

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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

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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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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

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. “They’re focusing on making smart investments in things that have real-world implications both near- and far-term,” said Gabriel Scheer , director of innovation for the investment and accelerator nonprofit Elemental Excelerator. ” They also diverge, particularly given Amazon’s role as a global online retailer.

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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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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

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“This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Even Matthew Metz, the Seattle founder of the EV-boosting nonprofit Coltura , can’t say for sure if the infrastructure build out is on track to meet demand.

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