CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2022

The list of programs that AllianceBernstein has in place to diversify its talent pipeline is extensive. based company works with job training nonprofit Year Up to recruit tech talent from underserved populations. Diversifying the talent pipeline. The Nashville, Tenn.-based Karl Sprules. AllianceBernstein. Janessa Cox-Irvin.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Such issues have played a large role in the rise of organizations focused on empowering and supporting women in tech roles. Black Girls Code.

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Network World

JUNE 20, 2024

CompTIA today introduced an updated edition of its Network+ professional certification, which the nonprofit organization says will enable network practitioners to understand and apply both networking and security concepts to configure and harden networks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

Storment, executive director of nonprofit FinOps Foundation, which develops best practices, education, and certification programs, adds that FinOps is about accelerating delivery, avoiding waste, and making more informed decisions on the trade-offs related to tech value.

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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.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The 4-year-old nonprofit is built around the core notion that every person is a math person — but we all experience math in different ways. The museum exists as a nonprofit that offers math programs to schools and other community organizations on a sliding-scale payment system. I want people to walk in to full-color math.

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Venture Beat

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Girls Who Code, AnitaB.org, and NCWIT are working to close the tech gender gap with pandemic-adjusted strategies for education and community. Read More.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new nonprofit is trying to keep the momentum going. The organization has created an independent, transparent program for certifying companies that are undoing pay disparities among the ranks of their employees. The program costs $5,000 to $20,000, depending on company size. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

LGBTQ Tech LGBTQ Tech offers programs and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities and works to “educate organizations and policy makers on the unique needs LGBTQ+ individuals face when it comes to tech.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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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).

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

Audere Image) Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere will advance its technology to improve the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests with $9.35 Users can take a photo of their result and the program will also interpret it for them. million in fresh funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

TurboTax parent company Intuit has opted out of the IRS Free File Program. Intuit, the parent company of tax filing software TurboTax, is exiting an IRS program that allows many Americans to file their taxes for free. Getty Images.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the 22 tech startups that have been selected for the organization’s recurring Founder Cohort Program on Thursday. Launching a startup can be a lonely journey, but it doesn’t have to be,” Parker, the board chair for WTIA’s Startup Program, said in a news release.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2025

GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The city-owned Seattle Center and the Pacific Science Center have formed a first-of-its-kind partnership that will help support the nonprofit while creating a more vibrant connection between the venues. The new partnership with the city is a “game changer,” said PacSci CEO Will Daugherty.

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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.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The event was organized by Amazon in the Community, a philanthropic program within the company. The program specifically addresses needs in education, housing, food security, disaster relief and employee volunteering. Working with a budget, kids could choose clothes, school supplies and books for their home libraries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For decades, we’ve been investing in innovation, partnerships, and programs that apply our technology, scale, and talented workforce to drive human progress – all intending to have a measurable influence on some of the complex challenges important to our business, customers, the communities we serve and society at large.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The BPDA also organizes community outreach programs for students, including the Student Information Technology Education and Scholarship (SITES), National High School Computer Competitions (HSCC), and Youth Technology Camp (YTC) to increase representation in tech and create pipelines for future talent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The more we can move that process out to the cloud, enable the end users to own and be empowered to manage themselves and their own data, the more we can reduce the amount of time and effort on our programs and get more people out onto the field and playing.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Promising a “new Wi-Fi era,” the nonprofit Wi-Fi Alliance industry group launched the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program Monday. The program aims to hold devices that use next-gen 802.11ax Wi-Fi radios to an established set of standards. That badge is important because it lets […].

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Washington state voters rejected initiatives that would have axed a capital gains tax and a program to reduce carbon emissions. billion over two years , pays for public education, early learning programs and school construction. An election box in Seattle. PT on Tuesday. PT on Tuesday.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Despite public and internal corporate support programs, and increased awareness of male/female disparities in the workplace in terms of positions and salaries, women still come up short of equity in tech job placements. Launched a Veterans Leadership Program. Provided programs and services that encourage self-improvement.

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GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2023

Microsoft says its related Generative AI Skills Grant Challenge will support nonprofit, social enterprise, and academic or research institutions that use generative AI for social and economic good. The company declined to disclose the expected size of the grants or the amount of its investment in the programs.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A pilot program to help orca whales in Puget Sound by asking commercial vessels to slow down saw 61% participation in its first month, reported program leaders at an event Friday at the Seattle Aquarium. The pilot program lasts from Oct. Quiet Sound is similar to a program in British Columbia to protect whales called ECHO.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

Through internship programs, apprenticeships, returnships, and other unique talent and upskilling programs, these examples can help inspire the right DEI strategy for your organization. The company also recently launched an HBCU Scholars Program, providing up to 20 students with scholarships after completing a 9-week summer internship.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While crucial, if organizations are only monitoring environmental metrics, they are missing critical pieces of a comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program and are unable to fully understand their impacts. Government agencies and nonprofits also seek IT talent for environmental data analysis and policy development.

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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. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

Therefore, we have programs to educate all directors on cybersecurity. We have a formal Cyber-Risk Oversight Certificate Program for our members, created in partnership with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Ridge Global. To get on a board, you must be in the governance circle.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2024

” Hwang is the CEO of Right to Start , a national nonprofit founded in 2020 that aims to expand entrepreneurial opportunity for Americans. There are government programs focused on small business and entrepreneurship, but they aren’t consistent and often only offer help on a periodic basis, Hwang said.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As part of our Giving Tuesday promotion, we’re donating $5 from each ticket sold to Junior Achievement of Washington , a nonprofit that prepares young people for success. A big thanks to Greater Seattle Partners for their support of this new awards program. Grab your tickets here ! The Gala returns to downtown Seattle on Dec.

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2023

Washington Middle School three years ago entered a partnership with the Technology Access Foundation (TAF), an education nonprofit led by Millines Dziko, and began incorporating TAF’s pedagogy at the racially and economically diverse school. TAF has a less-intensive model called the STEMbyTAF School Transformation program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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