Google Announces First Donations to Charity

Source: Sheryl Sandberg, Google Press Release, 1/17/2008.

Google.org has announced five core initiatives beginning it corporate giving program totaling more than $25 million. The five are to help combat climate change, global poverty and emerging threats such as pandemic disease. These initiatives are planned to draw upon Google's strengths in access to information and scalable technology. Google.org plans to use a range of approaches including grants, investments in for-profits and advocacy, and to continue to tap the experience of Google engineers and other team members.

Comment: This seems like a good start. I applaud the idea of starting small, gettin experience, and then scaling up. I also like the idea of building on Google.com's expertise in information collection and mining, and its great techie staff. Congratulations to the team responsible for this initiative! JAD

Read more articles on the donations in:

• The Washington Post
• The New York Times