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We’re excited to announce a fourth cycle for our Essential #OpenSource Software for Science RFA, which funds software projects that support the computational foundations of biomedical science 👩🏽💻👨🏻🔬czi.co/OpenSourceSoftwareRFA 🧵
Donors, development partners, philanthropists & impact investors all have a role in catalyzing the investments needed to transform the lives of those furthest behind.
@LisaKurbiel & @DrJoonYun discuss bringing @UN system into impact investing👉 jointsdgfund.org/podcast/inc…#Fin4Dev
Vox's Future Perfect, where I work, is hiring a deputy editor: boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedi…. I've loved working here and I bet you will too, and your help will let Future Perfect cover more big global problems ( solutions).
The Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology is a partner in a $40 million award from the Dept of Energy that will accelerate research on solar technology in order to meet the increasing needs for renewable energy. bit.ly/3fH0Xbj@Penn@VagelosEnergy
Ana P. Peredo, a doctoral candidate at @PennEngineers, joined Wharton Impact Venture Associates—a program that offers students experience in the field of impact investing—to better understand how to apply her science background to the impact space. bit.ly/33sED2y
Thrilled to see @Report4America as a finalist for the $100m MacArthur grant. Along with excellent projects on eliminating homelessness, mosquitos, oxygen therapy, oceans and remote medicine. $100 million over up to 6 years. macfound.org/press/press-rel…
JPMORGAN: “.. we find a positive correlation between levels of [credit-card] activity three weeks ago and the spread of COVID-19 since then.” Of all indicators, “the highest correlation .. is the level of “card-present” (essentially in-person) restaurant spending ..”
Excited to join an incredible group of fellow founders to launch the Mojaloop Foundation.
If you are interested in using open source software to build payments infrastructure that helps to empower the poor then please get involved in the community mojaloop.io/community/
ICYMI: Amid growing legal needs caused by the coronavirus pandemic and other disasters, @ABAYLD Disaster Legal Services Program has unveiled a new tool to assist relief efforts: ambar.org/mylxr