Open Philanthropy Project. Good Code Projects - impact.hackpad.com. Good Code Projects Any questions - ask Ben Clifford, imbenclifford@gmail.com What is Good Code? Tech people meeting to work on EA projects in London As well as recording our projects in the .impact hackpad, we record what we're currently working on in the London meetup here Why Good Code? 1. 2. 3. How does it work? You're unlikely to build something really cool in 3 hours so we use this meetup to: I bring projects to the group - feel free to bring your own!
It's all DIY - I'm not an expert in any of these problems, you've got to go find the answer Current Projects Recently Completed In Progress New Incentives Photo Backup Automatic Photo Back up for New Incentives New Projects New Incentives Projects (need hackpads creating): What Are Foundations For? Judge Richard Posner, one of the foremost American jurists outside the Supreme Court, once observed, “A perpetual charitable foundation . . . is a completely irresponsible institution, answerable to nobody. It competes neither in capital markets nor in product markets . . . and, unlike a hereditary monarch whom such a foundation otherwise resembles, it is subject to no political controls either.” Why, he wondered, don’t we think of these foundations as “total scandals”? If foundations are total scandals, then we have a massive problem on our hands.
We are now living through the second golden age of American philanthropy. What Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were to the early twentieth century, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are to the early twenty-first century. The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed the creation of unprecedentedly large foundations, such as Gates’s. So foundations have seen explosive growth. Perhaps. But foundations have no electoral accountability. Mark Zuckerberg wants to change the world, again. You got a problem with that? Mark Zuckerberg has already changed the world we all live in. Now he wants to change the world that future generations will live in, too. Weirdly, quite a lot of people seem to have a problem with that.
For better or for worse – and mostly for the better – Silicon Valley is home to the most ambitious people in the world. Just like Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t going to be satisfied with small, visible interventions which don’t scale – feeding the hungry, say, or giving money to the poor. Such activities improve the world, but they don’t change the world. Zuckerberg’s giving vehicle, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has hugely ambitious aims. This can be read as platitudinous philanthropic throat-clearing, but in fact it’s much more important, and much more controversial, than that. It’s important to have a clear grasp of this concept, because it underpins not only Zuckerberg’s philosophy but also the climate-change discussions which are taking place in Paris this week. He continued: Canadian Non-profit News, Jobs, Funding, Training | CharityVillage.