Did you do the ALS ice bucket challenge?

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Theresa Preston-Werner@tpdubs2

culture: "... an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life."

(Geertz 1973: 89)

culture:the neat stuff

we create and do

Codestarter

We crowdfund $250 laptops for kids who want to learn to

code.

448 laptops funded to date

Our partner coding organizationshave grown 47%

https://github.com/codestarterorg/ubuntu-chromebook-installer

What does laptops for kidshave to do with

the ice bucket challenge?

• Open source

• Making charity cool

• The role for investors

• The role for employees

• Full-stack philanthropy

1. Open source

Open Source (Almost) Everythinghttp://tom.preston-werner.com/

2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

2. We need to make giving to charity cool.

capital:“Capital is the resource, command of which, enables one to exercise and resist domination in social relations, or putting it another way, to maintain a position in the status hierarchy of society...”

(Blunden 2004)

What I really mean is...

Úll’s race for good

3. Investors must get on board.

1% of nothing:pledge 1% of your startup’s equity to a good cause

http://www.pledge1percent.org/

• Andreessen Horowitz

• SVAngel

• LinkedIn

• AngelList?

4. Employees should be empowered to buy in.

Corporate-sponsored giving programs

5. Full-stack philanthropy

What’s your mission?

Thanks!