Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course: from its founding Caltech has been a testament to the generosity of donors who succeeded in business. Top tech companies like Google, Facebook and IBM have figured out how to make vast quantities of money by giving away their core product, or building products on top of open source and free software.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City.

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