Twitter founder-CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to CORE, the disaster relief group co-founded by Sean Penn a decade ago. Funds from Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative will expand free CO…
Dorsey launched #startsmall last month for COVID-19 relief, girls health and education,and efforts towards a universal basic income. Dorsey transferred $1 billion, or nearly a third of his net worth, to the new fund, making him the philanthropic standout among executives for the current pandemic.
Penn started CORE after the 2010 Haiti earthquarke and its been operating a dozen COVID-19 test sites across California over the past five weeks. Dorsey’s donation lets it expand and open free test sites into Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans and the Navajo Nation — focused on vulnerable and underserved communities.
Dorsey announced #startsmall April 7, funding it with his equity in Square, a digital payments company that he also founded. His donation to CORE and other contributions, are noted in a public-facing tracker for operational transparency.
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