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Deena Pierott works hard for underrepresented youth in STEM, but funding her nonprofit isn’t easy

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iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott, left, received some funding for her nonprofit from Seattle Seahawks player Bobby Wagner, right. The two are pictured with sister and brother Amiya and Clay Brasley, who both attended iUrban Teen programs. “They’re paying them that money to create inclusive programming,” Pierott said.

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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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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

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CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. Seattle’s CDL program focuses on two sectors: manufacturing and computational health. CDL launched its Seattle hub in 2021.

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10 important questions about the promise and pitfalls of AI

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Speakers ranged from corporate executives to nonprofit leaders to arts and music professionals. ” — Jamar Montgomery , program manager at Boeing, board member at Black Founders and Funders Group That was a theme from an Innovation Exchange event held Thursday evening at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

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Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

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Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn.

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Fundraising startup Snap Raise raises $90M as it expands digital platform to aid high school teams

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. “There’s a lot of different areas we can get into, but I think holistically what we really want to do is build program management software,” Morgan said. “A lot of what coaches and group leaders are tasked to do is build high school programs. And GoFundMe is a huge platform to compete against.