The grants cover two areas:
- Building organizational capacity
- The provision of expertise to develop open source websites for transparency-focused organizations in Africa
We’re really delighted because these grants help us do two things we really need to – share our knowledge and skills more widely, and improve our ability to run ourselves as a mature organization, better able than before to look after our legal and financial affairs on the one hand, and our community and users on the other.
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $330 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including microfinance, property rights, government.
Omidyar Network also funds some projects by friends of mySociety, such as Ushahidi and Global Voices. A fine day, all in all.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 10:34am
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July 2nd, 2010 at 8:26pm
Great news … way to go Tom
July 5th, 2010 at 7:31pm
Congratulations, well deserved. Sure you guys will put the money to excellent use.
July 12th, 2010 at 8:22pm
Congratulations, guys! This is wonderful news!
July 14th, 2010 at 9:30am
Congratulations to you mate, and to everybody who worked on that one!