# Geekcorps – a non-profit start-up

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/08/02/geekcorps-nonprofit-startup/
- Published: 2000-08-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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](http://www.geekcorps.org) 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.”

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The 27-year-old’s motivation for Geekcorps came from the year he spent in Ghana 
as a Fulbright scholar.

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