Nonprofit

Two nonprofit health plans focused on government-backed coverage are planning to combine in a deal that aims to create a sizable new player in the rapidly growing business of managed Medicare and Medicaid. SCAN Group, based in Long Beach, Calif., and CareOregon, of Portland, Ore., plan to join up under the new name HealthRight Group, they said.  Two nonprofit health plans focused on government-backed coverage are planning to combine in a deal that aims to create a sizable new player in…

Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems). Goodwill is the biggest name in thrift stores, so big it’s synonymous with them, and as such their stores are positively buzzing this time of year. Not just with thrift-shopping hipsters and working-class customers, but Santa Clauses and wide-eyed children and helpful workers.…

Nonprofit hospitals must have financial-assistance policies for needy patients, under federal requirements tied to an estimated $60 billion in annual tax breaks.They often make that aid hard to get. Hospitals put up obstacles, delay checking eligibility and sometimes press for payments that aren’t refunded even if a patient eventually gets qualified for assistance. That is according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of thousands of nonprofit hospital policies in filings to the Internal Revenue Service and…

Nonprofits struggle with raising awareness and retaining staff. SalesforceIn the year ahead, nonprofits anticipate challenges related to staffing and the state of the economy, technology, finances, and fundraising. This is reflected in how nonprofits are shifting their priorities over the coming year with 48% placing a greater emphasis on fundraising, 46% on retaining staff, and 44% on employee wellbeing. Today, nonprofit leaders are slightly more optimistic about their own organizations (65%) than the…

Friendship Bridge, a Lakewood-based nonprofit, aims to raise up rural Guatemalan women by providing economic opportunities, education and more – with the help of Coloradans. The nonprofit social enterprise, which mainly works with rural Guatemala’s indigenous women, provides financial services, health education, agriculture and business technical training and more. Coloradans can most easily support its cause by buying shopping totes, jewelry, ornaments and more created by over 30 artisans of Handmade by Friendship…

Andy Baio / Waxy.org: Tech companies working with AI are shielding themselves from accountability by outsourcing data collection and model training to academic and non-profit groups — Yesterday, Meta's AI Research Team announced Make-A-Video, a “state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.” Andy Baio / Waxy.org: Tech companies working with AI are shielding themselves from accountability by outsourcing data collection and model training to academic and non-profit…

Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen reacts during an interview with Reuters ahead of a meeting with German Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, in Berlin, Germany, November 3, 2021.Michele Tantussi | ReutersFormer Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday announced a new nonprofit with the goal of making social media healthier.The new group appears to build on the solutions she's proposed to lawmakers and social media companies themselves about how to make platforms safer, based in part on her…

Jalen Harris was part of the program's initial cohort.  Technology, Harris said, "wasn't always a particular interest of mine … but, after learning how much value it has as far as opportunities and potential growth, I became a lot more interested."He had enrolled at Bowling Green State University to study information technology but decided to take a break from school to focus on work. When things shut down due to the pandemic, Harris wanted to learn something new and got into coding. Around the same time, he saw…

For six years, and with the help of two supervising chefs, Comal Heritage Food Incubator has worked with nearly 40 immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs, training them to start their own food businesses. But coming out of a long stretch of pandemic setbacks, the nonprofit lunch restaurant needs help securing a longer future in Denver, starting with the hiring of a new head chef. “We’re looking for a really special person who can both manage a non-profit training program and run a full-fledged lunch restaurant,” said Matthew…

Coralie Mercier / World Wide Web Consortium: W3C plans to become a public-interest non-profit organization in January 2023, saying the move is “imperative to preserve the core mission of the Consortium” — We are pleased to announce today that W3C is to become a public-interest non-profit organization. Coralie Mercier / World Wide Web Consortium: W3C plans to become a public-interest non-profit organization in January 2023, saying the move is “imperative to preserve the core mission…