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On 5th anniversary the CZIs science program announces new institutes and efforts in biotech

Tech companies: Its time to show that Black lives really matter to you

Interview with Priscilla Chan: Her superdonor origin story

Daffy aims to make using donoradvised funds as easy as a few phone taps

Financial institutions can support COVID19 crowdfunding campaigns

Geeks on Trails: Support our HikeaThon team to help preserve access to our states natural wonders

Salesforce Ventures launches 100M Impact Fund to invest in cloud startups with social mission

HarvardMIT initiative grants 750K to projects looking to keep tech accountable

The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to radical courage with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya

Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

CEO Howard Lerman on building a public company and the future of Yext

Equity initiative formed by Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott lands 10M more in funding

NYC launches partnership network The Grid to help grow urban tech ecosystem

Young founder of cloud unicorn HashiCorp giving back to Univ of Washington with millions in scholarship aid

AI could make us conversant with critters unlocking conservation tools and serious risks

Announcing Sight Tech Global an event on the future of AI and accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired

How Carl Pope helped drive a 500 million pledge to push the US Beyond Carbon Part 2

Entrepreneurship and investing as social good

Report: After MacKenzie Scott gave away billions scammers began preying on vulnerable in her name

Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis The politics of private companies taking on public issues

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative drops 38M on 23 biomedical opensource projects

Young founder of 1B HashiCorp giving back to Univ of Washington with millions in scholarship aid

SureImpact wins the TC City Spotlight Columbus: PitchOff

The climate is our biggest threat Carl Pope is fighting to change our fate

Data says there are only two seasons for fundraising and one secret window

MacKenzie Scott gives 4B to 384 organizations as she calls pandemic a wrecking ball for Americans

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative drops 38M on 23 biomedical open source projects

Lets give tech philanthropists the benefit of the doubt on COVID19

Jeff Bezos Day 1 Families Fund awards 1059M to 42 nonprofits in third year of initiative

Larry Pages secret war on the flu

Zillow takes on housing worries with 5M pledge to The Home Project its first social impact program

What motivates innovative entrepreneurs: Money or altruism

Facebook launches 1B affordable housing initiative joining tech peers trying to close the gap

Microsoft adds 250 million to Seattle housing pledge bringing total commitment to 750M

Market map: the 200 innovative startups transforming affordable housing

Decarbon8 names the first three startups for its climatefocused philanthropic investment fund

Amazon enlists Prime Air jet in cancer fight aiming to take charitable profile to new heights

New Decarbon8US impact fund lets anyone make a philanthropic gift to climatesaving entrepreneurs

The Pill Club is donating 5000 units of emergency contraception

Bill Gates calls inequitable worldwide access to COVID19 vaccines a public health tragedy

Amazon donating an additional 27M to aid underserved Seattlearea students during pandemic

Planning for the uncertain future of work

Silicon Valleys inequality machine: a conversation with Anand Giridharadas

Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019

Travel savings tool Service shuts down citing COVID19 downturn

Amazon donates 8M for affordable housing in HQ regions launches employee matching program

Wishly wills the Gen Z world well with a worthy wad of angel wealth

University of Washington joins 106M Weill Neurohub effort to fight brain diseases

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott give 40M to boost groups working on gender equality

On 5th anniversary the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces new institutes and efforts in biotech