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Did you do the ALS ice bucket
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Shift Conference 2015 - Theresa Preston-Werner (Codestarter)

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culture:
"... an historically transmitted pattern of
meanings embodied in symbols, a system of
inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic
forms by means of which men communicate,
perpetuate, and develop their knowledge
about and attitudes toward life."
(Geertz 1973: 89)

culture:
the neat stuff
we create and do

Codestarter
We crowdfund $250 laptops
for kids who want to learn to code.

448 laptops funded to date
Our partner coding organizations
have grown 47%

https://github.com/
codestarterorg/ubuntu-chromebook-installer

What does laptops for kids
have to do with
the ice bucket challenge?

• Open source
• Making charity cool
• The role for investors
• The role for employees
• Full-stack philanthropy

1. Open source
Open Source (Almost) Everything
http://tom.preston-werner.com/
2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

2. We need to make giving
to charity cool.

capital:
“Capital is the resource, command of
which, enables one to exercise and
resist domination in social relations, or
putting it another way, to maintain a
position in the status hierarchy of
society...”
(Blunden 2004)

3. Investors must get on board.

1% of nothing:
pledge 1% of your startup’s equity to a good cause
http://www.pledge1percent.org/

• Andreessen
Horowitz
• SVAngel
• LinkedIn
• AngelList?

4. Employees should be
empowered to buy in.

Corporate-sponsored giving programs

5. Full-stack philanthropy
What’s your mission?

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Shift Conference 2015 - Theresa Preston-Werner (Codestarter)

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