GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

Steinglass worked for more than five years at computer science education nonprofit Code.org, most recently as its president. Levine’s previous roles include commissioner of Washington state’s Employment Security Department and vice president of marketing and sales for Expedia’s Luxury Travel Division.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Airbnb’s nonprofit arm will offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing war. The efforts could help bring much-needed short-term relief for the more than 500,000 Ukrainians who have reportedly fled into neighboring countries since the invasion’s onset, though longer-term solutions… Read more.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2020

Stabilitas combines crowdsourced expert knowledge with technology to help alert customers of safety incidents that may affect traveling employees and other assets. Adams was a Special Forces Team Leader in western Afghanistan and helped coordinate with various organizations across business, government, and nonprofits.

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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

MAY 21, 2021

He joined the Seattle-based travel company’s board a year ago following a $1 billion investment by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Silver Lake. Icertis employs 1,400 people worldwide, including about 200 in the Seattle area. Apollo Global Management Co-Lead Partner David Sambur resigned from the board of Expedia Group.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fresh off launching a virtual telehealth platform earlier this year, CVS is now adding doctors, nurses, and physician assistants that travel to people’s homes, too. The company already owns the insurance company Aetna, the prescription benefits management service Caremark, and a nursing home-focused pharmacy service called Omnicare.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

His idea was to create affordable, easy-to-assemble pods that would provide budget travelers with privacy and security at a lower price than a typical hotel room. Travel rapidly dried up. The Seattle-based nonprofit provides a bridge between organizations helping homeless people find housing and property owners and managers.

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GeekWire

JUNE 22, 2020

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space travel and computerized avatars, but its latest contest hits closer to home: XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling is offering $5 million in prizes for innovations that could revolutionize job training for under-resourced communities.

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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. More people will be driving electric vehicles, traveling on electric ferries and planes, and using electric heat pumps and heat-pump water heaters. “We Residents in the state installed an estimated 38.6

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Berenstein told GeekWire that Brook Bay Capital will focus on AI/ML, marketplaces and technology for the financial, real estate, retail and travel industries. Berenstein founded travel itinerary planning startup Utrip in 2011 when he was 23 years old and led the company until it shut down in 2019. Mónica Guzmán.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Topics works by pinpointing five of your interests, such as “Fitness” or “Travel & Transportation,” based on your web activity, as measured by participating sites, for one week. John Bergmayer, the legal director at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit that promotes an open internet, points out.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In addition to the six spacefliers, the capsule will be carrying postcards that they’ve personalized for the Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s nonprofit educational foundation — plus mementos including the football that Bezos handed Strahan during their spot on Thursday Night Football.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2021

There’s been some buzz about that question in the wake of this week’s announcement that Bezos will be among the first people to travel to the edge of space in Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

“Think of it as travel insurance you might buy when you purchase a plane ticket online,” said CEO Eric Weaver. According to Weaver, Transparent Path has saved several loads of food from spoilage which has allowed the nonprofit to provide over 100,000 meals. Transparent Path charges a fee for each shipment of food tracked.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help. The local Make-A-Wish chapter grants around 300-400 wishes a year, and many involve travel, shopping sprees and computer games and toys. “It screamed innovation and technology.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

That means as many as 1,000 deaths aren’t getting counted every year, according to the National Safety Council (NSC), a 108-year-old nonprofit focused on health and safety in the US. This also takes into account a similar decrease in total vehicle miles traveled compared to 2019.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

The startup worked with agricultural companies and health agencies for testing and vaccination operations, and its 24-hour COVID-19 testing clinics near SeaTac airport served workers and travelers. The opportunity was just enormous, all of a sudden,” said Jarris.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions — a number that’s almost certain to grow as air travel increases while ground transportation and the power grid cut their fossil fuel use. “We’re GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Aviation is responsible for 2.3% We’re putting more and more carbon in the atmosphere and things are warming up.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That caught the attention of Community Brands , a software provider that helps associations, nonprofits, K-12 schools and faith-based groups manage events, memberships, fundraising, and more. It added more than 100 employees to its 20-person team as revenue spiked 20X. “The cost is so much lower and you can put on more of them.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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. “I But when drivers travel long distances that exceed their battery’s capacity, they need to tap into publicly available DC fast-chargers to keep them going.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The private sector is stepping up as a major player in combating the climate crisis, joining governments and nonprofits. Jay Inslee also traveled to Glasgow, leading a coalition of 68 state, regional and city governments that created their own carbon-cutting pledges. Gates himself spoke at a session focused on the issue.

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2020

After commissioning a study of the travel market, they found that stratospheric travel was still the right answer for what they were looking for. Last year, Poynter and MacCallum brought in a new management team to head World View’s operations , leaving them free to plan their next venture.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2020

Join It CEO Mitch Colleran, left, traveling in Spain with his partner, Jake. Current location: Seattle and Paris (as a participant the Station F Founders Program, I have a resident visa that allows me to travel to France). They in Valencia at the City of Arts & Sciences. Photo courtesy of Mitch Colleran).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

He originally joined the travel company’s board in 2005. Expedia has been crushed by the pandemic as travel restrictions slow its business. The company offers mobile platforms for religious, education and nonprofit organizations. Skip Battle. Global Ventures Photo). The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Certainly not by the majority of small businesses, arts and cultural orgs and nonprofits that rely on tech workers as customers. The next day when my good friends screwed up their appointment time to get boosted at a local drug store, they panicked about how they would get shots before traveling a few days later.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

The company says this reduction is “in line” with targets it is developing through a nonprofit group that works with companies reducing their emissions, the Science Based Targets Initiative. By this metric, overall carbon intensity decreased 16% since 2019, from about 123 grams per dollar of sales to 103.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

The combination of relaxation of masking and distancing recommendations, opening of large events, increased travel, new variants of concern, and uneven vaccination coverage makes for a lot of uncertainty,” said Janet Baseman, lead author of the study and associate dean for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington.

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MAY 2, 2022

Travelers Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer Mano Mannoochahr will discuss creating a data-first culture.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2021

Cornell said Blue Origin’s proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Club for the Future , the company’s nonprofit educational foundation. “With $28 million, we’re going to inspire a lot of kids,” she said. “To say that we are humbled is an incredible understatement,” Cornell said.

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

or even my green-leaning hometown of Seattle, I’ve generally limited my air travel to one or two flights a year. I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. The island of Kauai. Brent Roraback Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today’s announcement is the latest sign that Blue Origin is ramping up its suborbital space travel operation. . “Playing a part in advancing the space industry, and one day making those resources and that understanding available to everyone, is an incredible opportunity,” he said.

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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. Compass Health Photo). Photo courtesy of Alles).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Autonomous vehicles registered in California traveled approximately 1.99 Waymo followed suit , resuming limited operations in June delivering packages for two Bay Area nonprofits. Over the summer, as COVID-19 cases in California were peaking, both companies resumed regular operations.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

. “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.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While the booster flew itself to a touchdown on a landing pad not far from the launch pad, the four space travelers returned to their seats for a parachute-aided descent back to the Texas desert. The trip took 10 minutes and 17 seconds. ” Bezos then gave each of the fliers a custom-made astronaut pin and a hug.

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