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Seattle digs digital giving, earns No. 1 rank for second year in a row
For the second year in a row, Seattle is ranked as the most generous online city in a national survey, giving nearly $23 million in online donations in 2012. Seattle donated more than $38,000 online...
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Nonprofits move beyond black tie to raise funds
Donors received a surprise last year when they opened their invitations to the Gilda’s Club Seattle “Diamonds and Dew Drops” benefit ball. The cover of each card promised a 10-course dinner and a...
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Maja Larson: Finalist, Outstanding Corporate Counsel for a Nonprofit...
Maja Larson is not a science person. She started her legal career as an SEC lawyer and made a name for herself working on the Expedia IPO. Becoming general counsel for the Allen Institute for Brain...
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Jeffrey Rogers: Finalist, Corporate Counsel for a Large Company
In the era of health care reform, major hospital system consolidations are a regular occurrence, but the affiliation between Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services provided its...
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Remembering PONCHO, an early leader in Seattle's fundraising scene
In this week’s print edition, I write about nonprofits that are looking beyond galas and auctions to attract donors. Galas and auctions will always be a critical part of fundraising, but relying...
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Seattle-based Cadence Biomedical gets wheelchair-bound people walking
Heather Montag has been relying on people for help since her diagnosis with ALS (known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) in the late 1980s. But a new product from Seattle-based Cadence Biomedical is giving her...
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Franciscan Health System and Highline Medical Center affiliation complete
Tacoma-based Franciscan Health System has completed its affiliation with Highline Medical Center in Burien, making Highline the sixth hospital in the organization’s network. The affiliation was...
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Liquor Board to issue licenses for recreational marijuana industry in December
Washington state will start issuing licenses for production, processing and retail sales of marijuana on Dec. 1. That's according to the state Liquor Control Board, which has come out with an updated...
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How British Motor Coach grew from a termite-infested Rolls to a fleet of 21
When Roy Dubrow agreed to buy his neighbor’s 1950 Bentley in 1986, he never anticipated it would launch his new career as the owner of British Motor Coach, a Seattle-based limousine and car service....
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Hired health advocates help navigate medical bureaucracy
A terrifying case of botulism left Jessica Sklar feeling helpless. In addition to being paralyzed by the toxin last fall and spending nearly six months in the hospital, the college professor often felt...
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Virginia Mason CEO ranked among top physician execs in the U.S.
Dr. Gary Kaplan, chairman and CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center, is ranked sixth on Modern Healthcare’s list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare. Oregon’s...
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Bullitt Foundation opens the doors to sustainable building (slide show)
The Bullitt Foundation’s long-awaited Bullitt Center opened its doors today. The six-story, 52,000 square-foot building on Seattle's Capitol Hill was designed to meet the most rigorous environmental...
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Seattle gets closer to starting a bicycle sharing program
Puget Sound Bike Share has chosen Portland-based Alta Bicycle Share to operate the project to bring bicycle sharing to Seattle, estimated to cost $3.7 million for startup. PSBS, a nonprofit, is still...
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Seattle Children's gets creative with new expansion for efficiency, comfort
Seattle Children’s Hospital incorporated the architectural trend of “lean design” when creating the 330,000-square-foot Building Hope, a new expansion that opened this week. The concept involves...
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Hospitals across the country are investing millions to become cheaper, more efficient and more effective in what could be called the era of the Accountable Care Organization. Accountable Care...
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Providence lays off 132 people in Washington state
Providence Health & Services is laying off 132 administrative employees in the Puget Sound region as part of its plan to move to a new electronic medical records system. Altogether, 150 employees,...
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‘Dry’ counties in Washington? Maybe for marijuana
Washington state’s legalization of recreational marijuana is expected to be a boon for the state government, raising millions of dollars in tax revenue. But individual cities won’t be making any profit...
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Washington lawmakers closing loophole in marijuana legalization
Gov. Jay Inslee is slated to sign a bill into law Wednesday that clarifies Washington state's marijuana-legalization Initiative 502, which passed last fall. The new measure is designed to close a...
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Washington state public hospitals win a public records fight
A recent Washington state Supreme Court opinion could make it harder for the public to access performance-related records from public hospitals. The case started when a doctor who was terminated from...
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Marijuana startups garnering green from investors
Investors in the burgeoning marijuana industry gathered in Seattle on Monday and committed at least $1 million to startup companies that want to carve out a market in Washington's new legal cannabis...
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