How a Small Nonprofit Succeeded in Digital Transformation
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 3, 2020
One of my favorite clients, Charity Navigator, just released a major upgrade to how they process and rate nonprofit charities.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 3, 2020
One of my favorite clients, Charity Navigator, just released a major upgrade to how they process and rate nonprofit charities.
GeekWire
JUNE 3, 2023
The nonprofit has worked with Microsoft Philanthropies to improve its tech capabilities. Team Rubicon Photo) The nonprofit sector — which encompasses some 1.6 Kanter and other experts are advising nonprofits to explore the technology — but also to proceed at a measured pace and embrace the edict of first doing no harm.
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 12, 2023
For IT organizations looking to make a difference on gender diversity, or for women seeking to develop rich IT careers, several nonprofits have been created to empower and uplift those who identify as women in IT, improving gender diversity in the industry, and closing the pay gap between men and women. Here are three of note.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Their solution is a platform that allows companies to find and sign up for volunteering opportunities with local nonprofits. Launched earlier this year, Field Day is rolling out a private beta version of its platform in January for a six-month trial run with a limited group of companies and nonprofits. Community Warehouse Photo).
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2023
From there, we can dynamically connect to industry-leading cloud and network providers around the world via software-defined interconnection, gaining maximum choice, flexibility, cost control, and performance advantages. Social responsibility We drive digital inclusion and champion volunteering to promote prosperity across our communities.
GeekWire
JUNE 28, 2023
Microsoft is partnering with OpenAI and competing against tech giants including Amazon and Google in the race to capitalize on the growing wave of generative AI technologies in software and online services. The skills initiative includes what Microsoft calls the first Professional Certificate on Generative AI in online learning.
GeekWire
MAY 16, 2020
Over two decades, he’d been involved with five software startups, founding or co-founding four of them. Libes had been involved with Bainbridge Graduate Institute (now Presidio Graduate School ), a program focused on how to use capitalism for social and environmental benefit. . You can do both at the same time.”
Kitaboo
JUNE 8, 2021
The few non-profit associations who have appropriate software do not have a proper budget for training staff on how to make the most of the software. Using computers and mobile phones, and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, help in gathering and circulating knowledge and information quite effectively.
GeekWire
MARCH 26, 2024
Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. Zuper , a Seattle-based startup that provides field operations software to help companies manage workers across various industries, including cleaning, maintenance, and landscaping.
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.
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
educational nonprofit, recently announced it also fell victim to this vulnerability. This breach exposed a wide range of personal information, including names, dates of birth, contact information, Social Security numbers, student ID numbers, and various school-related records. Now, another victim has emerged.
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. Then submit your votes below , grab your tickets and keep reading to learn more about these worthy finalists. iUrban Teen.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 23, 2021
Screenshots of two rambling social media posts—one from Facebook, one from Instagram—form the sum total of the evidence police used last summer to justify an aerial surveillance operation in North California, records obtained by the nonprofit transparency group Property of the People and reporting by the Guardian… Read more.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Along with his brother, he published a step-by-step guide encouraging other software engineers to seek out climate endeavors that needed their skills. Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people. The Climate Papa logo.
GeekWire
JULY 13, 2023
She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. 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.
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. Isler was CEO of Daysaver, a calendar software startup, for three years.
GeekWire
JANUARY 26, 2023
Sawant’s proposed legislation would be a first-in-the-nation attempt to address a social practice that is rooted in thousands of years of history in India and other countries. Samir Khobragade , a former Amazon engineer and current senior director of software engineering for cloud platforms at NetApp, has worked in tech for 26 years.
GeekWire
JUNE 4, 2020
Dyce, a software engineer at Jargon , was looking for a cause she believed in and where her particular skill set would be useful. 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. Taylor Hoang Restaurants Photo).
GeekWire
OCTOBER 3, 2021
Mainstream media critic Project Veritas sues University of Washington and Stanford, alleging defamation by social media researchers. Seattle-based Truveta will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to analyze health data under a new partnership with the software giant announced Wednesday. … Read More. … Read More.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. He spent a decade in the software industry after several years as a programmer on Wall Street. Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum. Tony Baer has a multi-disciplinary background touching the different tiers of enterprise software.
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.”
The Verge
JANUARY 7, 2021
As for what or who is responsible for so many new users interested in trying the platform, which is operated by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, there are two likely culprits: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Signal competitor WhatsApp. This is false. Niamh Sweeney (@NiamhSweeneyNYC) January 7, 2021.
SecureWorld News
MARCH 14, 2023
Blackbaud, a cloud-based software provider for nonprofits, universities, healthcare organizations, and more, fell victim to a ransomware attack in May 2020 that compromised the data of more than 13,000 customers.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. He spent a decade in the software industry after several years as a programmer on Wall Street. Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum. Tony Baer has a multi-disciplinary background touching the different tiers of enterprise software. Drew Conway.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 19, 2022
Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. On top of the hard skills, Sato says the program also includes a focus on a “social justice curriculum.”
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.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Facebook blocked dozens of charity groups, nonprofit organizations, and even random big box retailers in Australia late Wednesday (early Thursday, local time), a move that appears to be collateral damage from Facebook’s ban on news in the country. Facebook even briefly blocked its own page in Australia, according to … Read more.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 8, 2020
He also led Seattle-based microfinance nonprofit Vittana. Collaboration work management software company Smartsheet announced Pete Godbole as CFO. . He is also an advisor for nonprofits and educational organizations. Drew Nordstrom , client advisor at The Caprock Group and co-founder of tax-software ZenLedger.io. . •
GeekWire
JUNE 21, 2021
Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 12, 2021
She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues.
GeekWire
MARCH 19, 2022
.” Andrew is Andrew Lytvynov , a Seattle-based software engineer at the data warehousing company Snowflake. Up until a week ago when he started on the Pledge Ukraine site, Lytvynov was keeping in touch with friends and family in Ukraine via phone or social media, and he was sending money. .
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Its predictive software assigns a freshness score and estimates when food is in danger of going bad during transit. In 2018, he created Transparent Path as an LLC before incorporating it as a social purpose corporation two years later. We designed our software during the pandemic to address pandemic-related issues.
Vox
JULY 28, 2023
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit that owns a for-profit arm with “capped” profits : First-round investors would stop earning after their shares multiply in value a hundredfold , with profits beyond that going into OpenAI’s nonprofit. (How much teeth the board has had in practice is debatable.)
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. Tiziana Figliolia.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 12, 2021
She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Social Impact. ? Government, Nonprofit, & NGO. ? Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum. ? Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). ? Intel Corporation. ? Omneo, a division of Camstar Systems. ? A TIBCO Spotfire advanced analytics solution purpose-built for a client. ? Cloudwick. ?
Dataconomy
JULY 27, 2023
Boosting efforts to create software that can help address some of society’s most pressing problems, such as climate change, disease diagnosis and prevention, and cyber security. Working together with decision-makers, academics, civic society, and businesses to disseminate information on trust and safety threats.
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.
GeekWire
JUNE 9, 2021
Karat helps software engineering teams with the first round of technical interviews. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Exceptionly, a software engineer hiring platform, added Ergul Civi as co-founder and COO. Rachael Granby (Karat Photo).
GeekWire
MAY 5, 2021
Financial support for nonprofits: Through the Microsoft Philanthropies employee giving program, employees in the U.S Microsoft software engineer Prarthana Sannamani was also spurred into action and built a COVID Resources India website.
GeekWire
APRIL 14, 2023
Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit that has invested in more than 150 climate startups. We have a real interest in helping companies deploy [carbon removal] technology in a way that communities embrace it and advances social equity. The hardware companies need software, they need the brain. GPT-4 is going crazy.
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. One way to get experience is by joining a nonprofit or small private board. Investors rely on the board to ensure they get the return they expect.
GeekWire
AUGUST 8, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. The quick pivot to telehealth also drew from the nonprofit’s experience shifting to electronic records a few years back. Your preferred social network?
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 7, 2023
Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. Phoenix is home to tech companies such as ADP, Workiva, ServiceNow, Traffic Tech, BigTime Software, and General Motors. Tampa, Fla.
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