Anyone know what became of this impressive April 2020 vow — and the $1b? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/technology/jack-dorsey-donate-1-billion-coronavirus.html

Thanks to @felixsalmon, quick data on Dorsey’s big gifts: $15m each to Covid-related initiatives at Open Research Income Lab (to counter extreme poverty) and Reinvent Stockton (improving quality of life & health services in Stockton CA).

$18m to Resolve to Save lives, to prevent pandemics. https://resolvetosavelives.org/ 

$20m to the Clara Lionel Foundation

https://claralionelfoundation.org/ 

Actually, it’s too interesting for a thread, but there are social-justice investments in BLM, NAACP, FREEAMERICA, feminist & women’s organizations, community relief in Oakland & his hometown of St Louis (as well as Stockton), research orgs working on Covid & other pandemics.

He’s given away $330,473,386 in the first nine months, in inventive ways.

For details, here’s the spreadsheet (again h/t @felixsalmon). Comment if anything strikes you.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1-eGxq2mMoEGwgSpNVL5j2sa6ToojZUZ-Zun8h2oBAR4/htmlview

Between this, banning Trump, and calling the bluff of those CEOs who were still pretending that social media is a bunch of “neutral platforms,” Dorsey has done some real good this year.

In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.