No, it’s nowhere near the $28bn of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but it’s a start. Google.org is the new umbrella portal for Google’s philanthropic efforts – many of which include social investment projects in the developing world. To highlight a few:
- The Acumen Fund, which will receive $5mn to fund anti-poverty and healthcare schemes in the developing world
- Technoserve, which will get $500,000 for a competition to find and fund business start-ups in Ghana.
- A rural water research project in Kenya run by economists from Harvard University and the University of California
- Grameen Foundation USA
- The MIT One Laptop Per Child program
Via Google Blog. (Thanks Pierre)
PS: Many are raving about the new Google book: The Search. However, another interesting –yet more tech intense- read is The Google Legacy; Chap. 3 is available online for free. (Thanks Ramin)
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