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Howard Schultz funding online learning program for small businesses using CreativeLive platform

GeekWire

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is launching a free online learning program designed to help small businesses gain the necessary skills to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes are many: the need for learning and community, the lack of capital and social networks, the systemic failures that lead many to not even try.

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Indie booksellers feeling ‘Boxed Out’ by Amazon respond with campaign targeting tech giant

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Independent bookstores across the country put out the unwelcome mat for Amazon and the tech giant’s Prime Day shopping extravaganza this week, trying to call attention to the dire straits small businesses are facing during the pandemic. Jeff Bezos grows richer while small businesses struggle to make it.

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Seattle startup promoting women entrepreneurs is puzzled by Facebook’s ban of its ads

GeekWire

The TheWMarketplace, a Seattle-based platform promoting women and diverse entrepreneurs, was excited to feature Askanya Chocolates and its Haitian founder on social media. Since early December, TheWMarketplace has submitted the paid ad for posting on the social media sites, had it rejected, revised the ad and had it rejected again.

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Blue Origin gets ready to test its suborbital spaceship with COVID-19 safety in mind

GeekWire

All mission crew supporting this launch are exercising strict social distancing and safety measures to mitigate COVID-19 risks to personnel, customers and surrounding communities.” NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program provided funding for payload development and flight.

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It’s not just about bringing workers back to the office: 10 indicators of a downtown resurgence

GeekWire

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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5 ways tech leaders can address racial inequity, from diversity expert and tech CEO Cheryl Ingram

GeekWire

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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Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

There are a range of organizations that are providing activists with bail bonds and legal help, or that are helping small businesses and other community resources that have been adversely affected. What follows is only a limited list. We Love Lake Street. Thank you so much for all of the donations! We have enough food now.