Seattle technology company expands ties to the non-profit sector
Howard Lake | 7 December 2000 | News
Social Ecology makes first of a series of grants of stock to strengthen non-profit sector.
Michael Gilbert, founder and CEO of Social Ecology, Inc., announced today that his company has granted 9,000 shares of its stock to CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. This is one of a series of similar grants to be announced in the next few weeks.
“By making this grant,” Gilbert said, “we seek to strengthen a valuable non-profit whose work benefits the nonprofit sector as a whole. At the same time, this grantmaking project will help us focus our products
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on pressing IT needs of community-service organisations.”
The company’s stock grant program was announced September 20, 2000; more than seventy applications were received by the October 16 deadline. Approximately 10 grants will be made.
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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.