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How an early snafu nearly sank a nonprofit startup that went on to enable $51M in charitable gifts

TisBest shoppers can customize their charitable gift card, whether they choose the digital version or biodegradable hard copy. (TisBest Image) “If this was an ordinary tech startup being done just for the money,” Erik Marks said, “this would have been put in the grave in ‘08.” But TisBest isn’t, so it wasn’t. Fourteen years later,…

Boeing pledges $10M for new UW engineering building that will house AI Education Institute

Rendering of the UW’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building by KieranTimberlake. The University of Washington is breaking ground next month on its Interdisciplinary Engineering Building. The new facility should help the UW’s College of Engineering better serve its growing enrollment: since 2009, the annual number undergraduates earning degrees from the college has doubled to 1,300 while the…