CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.

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CIO

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit behavioral organization Family & Children’s Services is turning to IT automation as part of a transformation strategy aimed at enhancing the organization’s ability to serve health professionals and clients in its community. It also offers services at more than 50 local schools, serving over 150,000 people a year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

This morning Arist , a startup that sells software allowing other organizations to offer SMS-based training to staff, announced that it has extended its seed round to $3.9 million after adding $2 million to its prior raise. But Arist feels a bit more mature financially than some of its peers, perhaps due to its price point.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For Kevin Torres, trying to modernize patient care while balancing considerable cybersecurity risks at MemorialCare, the integrated nonprofit health system based in Southern California, is a major challenge. Plus, the nonprofit is also prioritizing cybersecurity awareness with regular training and education campaigns.

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TechSoup

JUNE 3, 2022

From accidental data loss, to viruses that can destabilize your systems, nonprofits are more susceptible than they might think to cybersecurity threats. Make sure you identify the weaknesses in your systems and invest in training and tools to reinforce them.

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CIO

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. When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Goodera wants to make it easier with an end-to-end platform that includes pre-vetted volunteer opportunities and trained hosts. Goodera currently has volunteering openings from over 50,000 nonprofits that can be done in an office, remotely or by hybrid workers, with the goal of making them accessible to more employees.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The role involves consulting with clients to understand their needs, customizing Salesforce to meet those needs, providing training and support, and ensuring that the platform is being used effectively and efficiently to support organizational goals. Prerequisites include earning Salesforce Application Architect certification (see above).

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2024

As a nonprofit R&D center for the US government, MITRE is no stranger to AI. in late November 2022 — MITRE would be among the first organizations looking to capitalize on the technology, launching MITREChatGPT a month later. API available to projects, Cenkl says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Many organizations are realizing it makes them more adaptable and agile than requiring degrees above all else,” says Thomas Vick, a technology hiring and consulting expert with Robert Half. “But He found that organizations typically required degrees when he entered the workforce 20 years ago.

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

TechSoup offers a range of courses based on nonprofit needs with topics on fundraising, social media marketing, grant writing, digital skills, technology tools (including those for the cloud) and more.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

Skills-first (or skilled-based) hiring is mostly self-explanatory: It is an approach to hiring that focuses on finding candidates with the skills needed by the organization. When we look at what a skills-based organization is, which is eliminating job [titles] and looking at the skills needed, it is really great.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2021

IIBA is a nonprofit professional association founded in 2003 to promote the field of business analysis. The organization describes CBAP as a credential that “recognizes seasoned BA professionals who have over five years of practical business analysis work experience.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This includes making course content more relevant, improving the educational and cultural climate in classrooms, and restructuring entry-level tech classes to make them more inclusive and less forbidding, notes the Association for Women in Science , a professional organization for women who work in STEM jobs.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

All Raise ’s interim CEO Paige Hendrix Buckner has now dropped the “interim,” according to the nonprofit’s blog post. Hendrix Buckner joined the organization, which supports women founders and funders, as chief of staff in early 2022 and stepped in as interim CEO in January following the resignation of former CEO Mandela S.H.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

Diversity not only helps organizations perform better but fostering equity and inclusion can also strengthen recruiting and retention rates, as well as overall employee satisfaction. Students are given training on hard and soft skills to prepare them for IT careers, along with hands-on experience in their desired field.

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CIO

JULY 8, 2024

Those reasons seem to make sense, Chandrasekaran acknowledges, but they don’t justify the risks that shadow AI creates for the organization. Most organizations want to avoid shadow AI because the risks are enormous,” he says. Indeed, organizations are already facing consequences when AI systems fail. What could go wrong?

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CIO

JULY 12, 2024

When we were programming mainframes, every character counted,” says Sanjay Podder, chair of Green Software Foundation , an organization that aims to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for green software. Other large organizations were also interested.

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CIO

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. How IT organizations build applications impacts their usage, power consumption, and overall impact on sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Circles says the process is guided by “trained and vetted” mental health professionals. Eichler previously founded “Shekulo Tov,” a nonprofit organization that assists the mentally handicapped integrate into society.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The goal is to eventually release a dataset large enough to train a code-generating system, which will then be used to create a prototype — a 15-billion-parameter model, larger in size than Codex (12 billion parameters) but smaller than AlphaCode (~41.4 The application form went live this afternoon.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

Essen für Alle , based in Switzerland, is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that relies solely on volunteers’ time, talent, and generosity to assist people in need, regardless of their residency or financial status. That was just the beginning. Its home-grown software was not scaling with the mission.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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Perficient

AUGUST 15, 2024

Through this initiative, we can support organizations that align with our philanthropic mission to advance STEM education and improve health and well-being. Today, we are thrilled to reveal the final two organizations selected for this round of global grants – the Marina Orth Foundation and the Last Mile Education Fund !

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The post New Training Course Helps Gain Expertise with Jenkins CI/CD appeared first on DevOps.com. LFS267, developed in conjunction with the Continuous Delivery Foundation, is […].

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CIO

JULY 7, 2023

I was intrigued by the chance to drive a major transformation that will ultimately make a big difference in how the organization conducts business and responds to customer needs. There is a considerable time commitment to be an effective board member while you have to continue running your organization. Also, it’s the mission.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 18, 2024

Their distinct training, abilities and experiences are invaluable in evaluating many startups seeking capital. Getting started Several initiatives, some of which my organization VetsInTech is part of, aim to bridge this chasm, creating a smoother transition from military service to the VC arena. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

The Need for Effective Leadership Succession Regardless of size or industry, every organization goes through leadership transitions. Effective leadership succession fills the vacancy left by a departing leader, ensuring a seamless transition and continuity in the organization’s strategic direction and operations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum master certifications Two well-recognized organizations, Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org , offer Scrum training and certifications. Scrum Alliance, established in 2001, is one of the more influential organizations in the agile community.

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2023

“The pandemic and the aging population and growing population really put very high stress on every healthcare system, and Atlantic Health was no exception,” says Sunil Dadlani, chief information and digital officer and chief cybersecurity officer at the New Jersey-based nonprofit healthcare network. Atlantic Health serves a population of 6.2

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That blog quickly grew into Blacks in Technology (BIT) Foundation , a global organization working to “stomp the divide” in the tech industry. Obviously, I wasn’t dreaming that it would go up into this international organization. So, he launched a blog to connect with and create a community for Black technologists.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Founder and CEO Lauren Picasso, whose past roles include serving as director of marketing at Jet.com, told me that she became interested in the market after training for a triathlon; she’d often feel dehydrated even after drinking lots of water. The company donates 1% of proceeds to the women’s sports nonprofit SheIS.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Equity cannot be fully achieved by simply donating money to external partners, such as my organization, the National Urban League. Entrepreneurs need to help get their employees into proven training programs that show the true impact of their unconscious biases. VR training programs. Actions speak.

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