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City of Seattle awards $545k in grants to 18 nonprofits working to expand digital literacy

GeekWire

(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.

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Empowering Change: Digital Library Solutions for Nonprofits

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Textual content, video and audio files, images, and more are used to communicate their message to people. From the storage of images, videos, and documents to metadata management, a host of activities are included within the DAM system. Content plays a crucial role in brand building. It further reduces the risk of piracy and theft.

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Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

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GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The program is conducted virtually through video conferences. Close to 6,000 students from 100 countries are in the program, with about one-quarter in the U.S.,

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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

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Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research. The Geeks Give Back category is presented again this year by BECU.

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This next-generation video game requires a prescription

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The future of video games is about more than just fun. Still, the idea is that through all these challenges, Frigidus’s frosty terrain can give you something other video games don’t: medical treatment. For all the “I’m not like other video games” energy, playing EndeavorRx does feel familiar. Courtesy of Akili.

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Swedish Health Services launches new cancer research center with $20M from Paul Allen

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“The Center for Immuno-oncology”: Researchers will develop therapies that harness the immune system, using the data collected from patients by the research center. Swedish has appointed Douglas Kieper as interim program director.

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Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund awards $96M in grants to 32 organizations helping homeless families

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The post included a video of Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sanchez talking with some of the funding recipients about the importance of the grants. The Day 1 Families Fund is part of the two-pronged, $2 billion “Bezos Day One Fund” that has a separate track focused on developing Montessori-inspired preschool education.

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