Geekcorps – a non-profit start-up
Howard Lake | 2 August 2000 | News
Ethan Zuckerman is one of the growing number of high-tech multi-millionaires to turn to philanthropy. The former Tripod communities co-founder isn’t giving cash to non-profits: he has started his own. Geekcorps plans to send e-commerce and tech experts to developing nations.
Ethan Zuckerman is one of the growing number of high-tech multi-millionaires to turn to philanthropy. The former Tripod communities co-founder isn’t giving cash to non-profits: he has started his own. Geekcorps plans to send e-commerce and tech experts to developing nations.
Geekcorps is featured in this month’s Wired magazine. He is reported as describing Geekcorps as a “dot-org”. Apart from emphasising the non-profit status of his start-up, this is his shorthand for distinguishing his start-up from “the non-profit tradition of proposals, grants, and rigid multiyear project plans.” His term is meant to be more “guided by the fast-paced mind-set of the [Internet] industry.”
Advertisement
The 27-year-old’s motivation for Geekcorps came from the year he spent in Ghana as a Fulbright scholar.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.