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Microsoft Alumnus: Scott Oki (Founder, Board of Directors)
The 10-99 Foundation exists to provide assistance to the surviving families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in Washington.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Jeff Reifman (Founder)
Now part of Groundspring; Action Studio built a suite of tools that pulled together in one package the ability to maintain web sites, mailing lists, event registration and petition-signing to benefit the not-for-profit sector.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Paul Allen (Founder)
The Allen Institute for Brain Science is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit medical research organization dedicated to performing innovative basic research on the brain and distributing its discoveries to researchers around the world. Through its efforts, the Institute aims to advance a new understanding of brain diseases and disorders.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Scott Oki (Founder, Board of Directors)
Our mission is to integrate chess as a learning tool in our nation’s 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms, in order to have an enduring positive impact on our students’ critical thinking and social skills, and their ability to achieve academically.
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Microsoft Alumnus: John Jenkins (Founder)
The American Museum of Radio and Electricity preserves and interprets an important scientific and cultural legacy: the historic exploration of electricity and the development of radio into its Golden Age
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Microsoft Alumnus: Mark Cliggett (Co-Founder)
The Northwest's only seed and early-stage private equity investment fund committed to sustainability. Its members are active angel investors who want to contribute more than money to growing companies. Angels with Attitude has made investments in the following areas: clean and renewable energy, industrial process efficiency and controls, sustainable agriculture, education, and water and energy conservation technology.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Patrick Awuah (Founder)
Ashesi University is a coeducational liberal arts institution whose mission is to educate African leaders of exceptional integrity and professional ability. By raising the bar for higher education in Ghana, we aim to make a significant contribution towards a renaissance in Africa.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Trish May (Founder)
Athena Partners is a not-for-profit corporation founded by a Seattle-area cancer survivor. They are passionately committed to eliminating women's cancers by advancing research and education. Athena Partners raises funds, in part, through the sale of Athena bottled water.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Sean Blagsvedt (Founder)
The best-known networking sites in the industry connect computer-savvy elites to one another. Babajob, by contrast, connects India’s elites to the poor at their doorsteps, people who need jobs but lack the connections to find them. Job seekers advertise skills; employers advertise jobs and matches are made through social networks.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Tina Podlodowski (CEO)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound partners with actively involved community members to match caring adults with children, both of whom benefit from one-to-one mentoring programs.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Mark Cliggett (Founder)
Bright Water School was founded in 1998 out of a desire for greater access to Waldorf education in Seattle. Waldorf education is based on a deep understanding of the needs of the growing child and the maturing adolescent.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Charles Simonyi (Founder)
The Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences is a 501(c)(3) private foundation which distributes funds to worthy organizations that demonstrate excellence in the arts, sciences and education. Grant proposals are accepted only after invitation by the foundation.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Bruce Jacobsen (Board President)
The College Access Now program is dedicated to helping promising, low-income young people prepare for and earn admission to college. Our mission is to identify high school students who a) are economically disadvantaged; b) are among the first-generation in their families to go to college, and c) demonstrate potential and motivation to pursue higher education.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Aaron Contorer (Founder)
The Contorer Foundation supports cost-effective, results-oriented projects that promote a sustainable way of life in America (projects in San Diego and Seattle) and reduce worldwide population growth.
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Crystal Springs Foundation
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Microsoft Alumnus: Scott Oki (Founder)
Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all
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Microsoft Alumnus: Paul Maritz
Digital Partners helps entrepreneurs build great technology companies. DP brings financial backing, business contacts and entrepreneurial experience to emerging growth companies in the Pacific Northwest.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Elizabeth Funk
The Dignity Fund was formed to bring needed capital to the microfinance industry to fuel the social empowerment of the poor. The provision of “micro” loans and financial services to the entrepreneurial poor to start income-generating small businesses is one of the most significant anti-poverty tools at work in the world today.
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Enterprise Networks
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Esperanza Hills is developing a green housing community, made up of passive solar homes in community clusters.
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EDI provides culturally-tailored leadership programs that put people of Asian-Pacific heritage on a fast track for successful executive service. EDI also helps our community agencies become more efficient in serving their diverse constituencies. EDI plants the notion that community involvement is not an option for future leaders – it is a critical requirement.
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Experience Music Project (EMP) is dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in popular music. By blending interpretative, interactive exhibitions with cutting-edge technology, EMP captures and reflects the essence of rock ‘n’ roll, its roots in jazz, soul, gospel, country and the blues, as well as rock’s influence on hip-hop, punk and other recent genres.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Scott Oki (Founder)
Our mission is to impact the lives of young people in the greater Seattle area by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Gary S. Malkasian (Co-Founder & President)
A charitable, non-profit, volunteer 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to defend the rights of children in out of home care. Our mission is encapsulated in two concepts:
Advocate for Change is our mission in the macro. We advocate to change society, change attitudes, and change the laws regarding our children. We will achieve this by bringing together the voices of those most closely touched by foster care - the foster children themselves, their parents, and their guardians. Together will raise awareness and focus attention on solutions to the dilemma of children languishing in foster care.
Intervene for the Child is our mission in the micro. Whenever we believe an individual child's rights are being violated, we will intervene by providing support and legal assistance to foster families. Pivotal to this is the creation of a network of attorneys, legal resources, and a legal aid fund.
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Four Angels is a cozy and comfortable cafe offering organic coffees and teas, vegetarian soups and sandwiches, and homemade baked goods and desserts. 50% of Four Angels Café’s profits go to the Pride Foundation, and the other 50% goes to the giving.org Investment Fund.
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Our mission is to provide an excellent bilingual education in a welcoming environment that encourages critical thinking and curiosity.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Sharon Maghie
Friends of the Children - King County strives to help our most vulnerable children living in seriously high-risk environments develop the relationships, goals, skills, and resources necessary to thrive.
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Front Seat is a civic software and incubator. Our software connects people to the places we live, the resources we consume, and our communities.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Tony Audino (Founder)
Fulcrum ensures that excellent Catholic schools will be available to families long into the future by providing tuition assistance, assistance to schools in need, and initiatives to promote academic excellence.
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Microsoft Alumni: Bill and Melinda Gates (Founders)
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, we focus on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Paul Maritz (Board Chairman)
Grameen Foundation's mission is to enable the poor, especially the poorest, to create a world without poverty. With tiny loans, financial services and technology, we help the poor, mostly women, start self-sustaining businesses to escape poverty.
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Indicus Public Trust
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Japanese American Chamber of Commerce
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Microsoft Alumnus: Alyce N. Hoggan, MDes. (Co-Founder/Executive Director)
A 501(c)(3) scientific research organization dedicated to innovation through collaboration in the applied areas of communication, public safety, energy, and transportation. We are solving problems, improving the nation’s research infrastructure by permanently connecting university labs in 2-way high-definition video, and for disaster victims, designing a practical, scalable, sustainable, fractal-like algorithmic solution to house up to 100,000 people per instance.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Yaffa (and Paul) Maritz
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Microsoft Alumnus: Andy Walker
Working with the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario to put bring computer literacy to the aboriginal children in Northern Ontario camps. These communities suffer third world conditions. Access in is only by air in the spring and fall months.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Yaffa and Paul Maritz
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Microsoft Alumnus: Scott Oki
Founded in 1993, Nanny & Webster manufactures high quality baby blankets and donates 100% of its proceeds to children's charities
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National Kidney Foundation of Oregon and Washington
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Microsoft Alumni: Barbara Dingfield, Peter Bladin, Jane Meseck, Kevin Johnson (Founders)
NPower is a network of locally based nonprofit organizations that provide comprehensive, high-quality and affordable technology assistance to other nonprofit groups nationally. Founded in 1999, NPower currently serves more than 4,000 organizations each year.
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Microsoft Alumni: Chris Doerr and Bob Seidensticker
Pangea (formerly known as World Venture Partners) is an association of individuals dedicated to increasing the philanthropic resources flowing to international projects that help people in economically disadvantaged countries lead healthy, productive lives.
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Pembroke Perlin Fund
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Microsoft Alumnus: Julie Edsforth
improving the lives of adolescent girls in Seattle through innovative evidence-based programs in public middle schools and in the juvenile justice system. The organization was formed to address issues at their root, by instilling leadership skills, fostering the development of critical thinking, and promoting the individual potential in adolescent girls. Our mission is firmly rooted in our belief that strong girls become strong women.
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Microsoft Alumni: Anil Singh-Molares & Anne Garrett Addison (Founders)
The Preeclampsia Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness about the sign and symptoms of preeclampsia, a common complication of pregnancy and a leading cause of maternal and infant death in pregnancy globally. The Preeclampsia Foundation was founded after Ms. Addison’s near-death experience in 1996 due to preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome. The PF today boasts an online forum community of over 6,600 members worldwide with over 250,000 Posts in 30,000 Topic areas.
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Schaar Whelpton Foundation
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Seattle Sounders Success Fund
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Microsoft Alumni: Scott Oki, Paul Shoemaker
Social Venture Partners is a network of accomplished individuals who combine financial contributions and professional skills with a passion for philanthropy. Leveraging our collective expertise and resources, we partner with and strengthen promising nonprofits for maximum community impact.
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Microsoft Alumnus: Trish Millines Dziko (Co-Founder/Executive Director)
TAF prepares underserved children of color for higher education and professional success by providing a rigorous and relevant K-12 curriculum.
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Microsoft Alumni: Mike Murray, Ed Bland
Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, works to reduce global poverty by increasing access to life-changing microfinance services. Rather than directly providing microfinance services, Unitus connects the ambitious, visionary social entrepreneurs who lead our partner MFIs with the business expertise, capital investments, and innovative tools and services required to grow faster, dream bigger, and reach farther. Their success in turn provides hope and opportunity for thousands who would otherwise remain stuck in the downward cycle of devastating poverty.
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Microsoft Alumni: Michael Wenberg ( CEO)
The Walla Walla Symphony begins its 102nd season as the oldest continuously operating symphony west of the Mississippi. For over 20 years, the orchestra has been under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor, Yaacov Bergmann. Composed of musicians from Walla Walla and around the region, the orchestra is recognized for its adventurous programming, school programs, and tradition of performing original compositions.
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Microsoft Alumni: Chuck Hirsch (Founder)
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund supports innovative research in Washington State to promote life sciences competitiveness, enhance economic vitality, and improve health and health care.
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Microsoft Alumni: Jabe Blumenthal
The Washington Progress Alliance is an influential group of entrepreneurial thinkers actively invested in social change. We help win measurable results by building strategic partnerships and shared resources and by fusing long-term vision with day-to-day action
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Young Presidents' Association Social Enterprise Network
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