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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

Portland-based nonprofit VertueLab launched its $5 million Climate Impact Fund on Wednesday to support early stage, clean tech entrepreneurs focused on addressing climate change causes and moving to a carbon-free economy. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). VertueLab offers a variety of support for new companies.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

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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How to leverage data to create a more intelligent organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Srinivasan will share Petco’s ongoing data journey at CIO’s Future of Data Summit , taking place virtually May 10-11. “I’m a big believer in not building multi-year plans when you’re in a quick transformation journey,” Srinivasan said. It’s important to start scrappy and start seeing results.”.

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25 Years Later: InfraGard Leads the Way Toward a Safer America

SecureWorld News

The private sector component of the InfraGard program is represented by InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA), an FBI-affiliated independent nonprofit organization. Currently, the IT sector has the highest number of members in InfraGard, followed by the financial services and healthcare/public health sectors.

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As worries spark over the carbon impacts of NFTs, some unexpected boosters come to their defense

GeekWire

The more urgent question for many is this: what are the climate impacts of tethering the sales of virtual items to cryptocurrency? That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.

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The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster

The Verge

Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which has the largest fuel pipeline, was forced to shut down its oil and gas pipeline system on Friday after a ransomware attack that has slowed down the transportation of oil in the eastern U.S. And while the attacks are virtual, the consequences can be quickly felt on the ground.

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