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.
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.
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CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 13, 2025
Now more than ever, future-proofing the business requires developing a robust pipeline of IT leaders prepared to step up as the next generation of strategic partners and innovation anticipators. CIOs and other digital leaders play a critical role in shaping the future of their organizations.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Nonprofit NPower is working to change that by fostering opportunity for those outside traditional IT pipelines through its tuition-free Tech Fundamentals program , which has helped young adults from underserved communities, as well as military members, military spouses, and veterans, forge new careers in IT for over 20 years.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 28, 2024
,” a hybrid streaming program put on by Seattle nonprofit Future Arts. The 3 1/2-year-old women-led nonprofit was founded as a way to bridge the tech-arts wage gap and to strengthen the connections between those working in tech and those creating tech-infused art in the city. . “We’ve got to create some new things.”
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Implications for the AI industry This development holds significant implications for AI companies. As the EU delves deeper into developing the code of conduct, worries about overregulation are likely to grow. Balancing innovation and regulation A major concern surrounding the AI Act is its potential to stifle innovation.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 12, 2025
Were 80 to 85% in the cloud and for us, the job is proactively tracking this spend, then educating developers and data teams on how to use cloud capabilities in a cost-effective manner, he says. The nonprofit regulates broker dealers and operates trade reporting systems that track vast numbers of transactions.
Forrester IT
OCTOBER 10, 2024
GAN, in turn, is a foundation that aims to operate a nonprofit decentralized digital identity (DDID) network. GAN will not develop technology standards on their own. Bhutan is the first country to join GAN. GAN was founded, among others, by Accenture, cheqd, Inetrac, NTT Digital, Pearson, and other organizations.
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. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 22, 2022
Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer. Ada’s List.
GeekWire
MAY 15, 2024
Retired Seattle Storm star Sue Bird is teaming with cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase to donate $25,000 to Techbridge Girls , a nonprofit that promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) opportunities for girls.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the tech industry and workforce, surveyed 521 business and technology industry professionals on their insights and views on AI in the initial stages of adoption for its “ Building AI Strategy ” survey and report. Fewer respondents said they’ll be developing their own tools for internal use.
Network World
JANUARY 31, 2025
NaaS news and developments Frameworks emerge to help drive adoption Industry standards can help accelerate the adoption of new technologies. CapEx): cited by 37.6% Lack of visibility into service quality: 35.2% Security concerns: 32.6% Regulatory compliance issues: 26% Fear of losing control over change management: 25.6%
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
SIFF , the nonprofit that champions film and the movie-going experience in Seattle, is joining the call to save the Cinerama, the historic movie theater that has been in limbo for almost two years. The Cinerama movie theater in Seattle. GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser).
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 6, 2023
Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 19, 2024
In especially high demand are IT pros with software development, data science and machine learning skills. She works with commercially focused companies developing technologies to support and boost projects and products that impact multiple sectors within greentech. Contact us today to learn more.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk with Ali Farhadi , CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) , the Seattle-based nonprofit that has been innovating in open-source AI since long before it was popular.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 4, 2023
Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. CIO Wetmur is taking things a step further at Morgan Stanley with a more sustainable approach to application development.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 23, 2025
Thats why auticon started the Auticon Training Institute (ATI), a US nonprofit offering structured IT and tech training pathways, certifications, internships, mentorships, and networking opportunities free of charge for autistic adults, empowering them to start careers in software engineering, data analysis, cybersecurity, and more.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 21, 2024
As a nonprofit R&D center for the US government, MITRE is no stranger to AI. MITREChatGPT, a secure, internally developed version of Microsoft’s OpenAI GPT 4, stands out as the organization’s first major generative AI tool. We have security from the beginning, connected with our development team.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2025
QueerTech, a Montreal-based nonprofit serving the LGBTQ+ tech community, gained its roots after CEO and co-founder Naoufel Testaouni began attending tech events in Montreal and New York City. To achieve this, they developed the QT Access and QT Leadership programs 10-week cohort style programs that run on an annual basis.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.
Vox
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
OpenAIs nonprofit to for-profit transition To make sense of Musks out-of-nowhere bid for OpenAI, you need some background on OpenAIs controversial conversion from a nonprofit to a for-profit company. OpenAI was initially founded as a nonprofit, with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When he took over in 2013, Schutzler helped lead a shift to focus on accelerating workforce development and startup success in the region by way of public policy efforts and programs for companies and entrepreneurs. The WTIA operates a nonprofit member trade association and a for-profit corporation providing business services.
GeekWire
JUNE 28, 2023
(Photo via TechTalk.seattle.gov) The City of Seattle is awarding $545,000 in Technology Matching Fund grants to help support 18 nonprofit organizations and their projects to expand digital literacy and close the technology gap. The TMF grant program was started in 1997 to support community and nonprofit groups.
Network World
OCTOBER 8, 2024
“The deals that tech companies are making to put their own money up to achieve environmental goals are exciting,” said Josh Smith, energy policy lead at the nonprofit Abundance Institute. However, we should be “dismayed” at the pace of these developments, he pointed out.
GeekWire
MARCH 9, 2024
A new nonprofit, the Seattle-based Transparency Coalition , is aiming to address this issue. They decided to found the Transparency Coalition as a nonprofit organization to address these problems through policy advocacy and public education. Both have extensive experience as technology and startup leaders: Eleveld, a former U.S.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 26, 2022
That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.
GeekWire
JANUARY 24, 2025
GovGoose CEO Perrin Myerson interned at AWS and LinkedIn and initially helped develop an early version of GovGoose at Civic News Company, a nonprofit. Tout developed a “Sentient IAM Framework” that acts as a scorecard for cybersecurity.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 12, 2024
Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software. The IT and software industry is projected to contribute 14% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 20, 2025
AnitaB.org, a global nonprofit focused on recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in technology, reports that half of women in tech leave the industry by age 35, an attrition rate 45% higher than for men in IT. Worse, a significant percentage of women in tech want to leave. Workplace discrimination and sexual harassment play roles, too.
GeekWire
MAY 24, 2023
Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
HGC Group Photo) PATH , the global health nonprofit, is moving to a new headquarters space in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood after 15 years in South Lake Union. The nonprofit has more than 47 offices across 24 countries. The West Dock building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood will be the new home for PATH.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 11, 2024
At the CIO level, we’re in charge of the vision and how that vision is met,” says Gary Flowers, CIO of transformation and technology services at nonprofit workforce development organization Year Up. For many IT leaders, being central to organization-wide training initiatives may be new territory. “At And many CIOs are stepping up.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
American Association of Blacks in Energy The American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) is dedicated to ensuring African Americans and other minorities have input and a voice in the discussion and development of energy policies, regulations, R&D technologies, and environmental issues.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Tina-Marie Gulley, CEO of Ada Developers Academy. Ada Photo) Seattle’s Ada Developers Academy for years has been a success story for training under-represented people in tech and helping them embark on careers in software development. So the nonprofit brought them back to the classroom.
GeekWire
AUGUST 30, 2023
Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. The nonprofit cut 45% of its workforce in May, impacting about 34 of 76 employees at the time. The organization previously said a lack of internships for its students was due to decreased demand for software development talent.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Minding the workforce gap Supporting women through all stages in their learning and career development can help reduce this gap. Synchrony, for example, partners with Girls Who Code , an international nonprofit organization that helps support and increase the number of women in computer science. Launched a Veterans Leadership Program.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
. “We see this as a foundational step towards the future of on-device functionality,” researchers with the Seattle-based AI nonprofit wrote in a post announcing the app. Ai2’s OLMoE was introduced in September 2024 , developed by Ai2 and Contextual AI.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 5, 2024
startup that helps companies with the development, deployment, and maintenance of Android devices used across multiple industries. The Seattle nonprofit provides other Pacific Northwest nonprofits with expertise in technology, database management, human resources and 30 other services. million in a Series A round last year.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2022
Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We The nonprofit brought her onboard with a mandate to build a roadmap to drive innovation and modernize the organization’s IT footprint. We source a lot of food.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
For example, in a recent paper from researchers at Cornell, the universities of Washington and Waterloo, and the nonprofit research institute AI2, even the best-performing models were able to offer completely accurate responses only a third of the time. Other research support this.
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