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Big tech should create a national service program to make the US more united

To build responsibly tech needs to do more than just hire chief ethics officers

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

Seattlearea engineer and Arizona teacher join billionaires crew for charity space trip

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

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

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

Gates Foundation commits 21B to advance gender equality and deliver real change

Entrepreneurship and investing as social good

Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up

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

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

Paul G Allen Family Foundation giving 14M in COVID19 relief aimed at underserved communities

Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

Learn how to help build a sustainable gig economy at Disrupt SF

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

ChanZuckerberg Initiative gives 68M to fund Human Cell Atlas projects

LIVE: Melinda Gates on the 21st Century workforce at SXSW Interactive

Financial institutions can support COVID19 crowdfunding campaigns

With Benioff backing Sustainable Ocean Alliance aims to be the rising tide that lifts all ecopreneurs

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

With 11M commitment ATT is latest tech company to address Seattles homelessness crisis

Marc Benioff will discuss building a socially responsible and successful startup at TechCrunch Disrupt

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

Jeff Bezos focus on space spending sparks questions about philanthropy

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

MacKenzie Bezos promises to give away half her fortune highlighting Jeff Bezos absence from Giving Pledge

SureImpact wins the TC City Spotlight Columbus: PitchOff

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

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

Chinese hardware makers turn to crowdfunding as they look to go global

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

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hires to donate tech not just money

Silicon Valleys inequality machine: a conversation with Anand Giridharadas

How Apples new 25B housing initiative stacks up vs Microsoft Amazon and other tech giants

How tech entrepreneurs think of Universal Basic Income

Interview with Priscilla Chan: Her superdonor origin story

Beyond costs what else can we do to make housing affordable

Larry Pages secret war on the flu

Geeks Give Back: Its time for the technology community to step up and give

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

TLDR: Paul Allens 100K donation to help GOP Amazon briefly becomes 1T company latest philanthropic efforts by Amazon

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

Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon Valleys inequality machine

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

MacKenzie Bezos now MacKenzie Scott lists organizations receiving some of her vast wealth

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

What motivates innovative entrepreneurs: Money or altruism

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative drops 38M on 23 biomedical opensource projects

The Pill Club is donating 5000 units of emergency contraception