Several months ago I agreed to be part of a funding campaign for Gaza Sky Geeks. This is an organization that we had previously supported through the Techstars Foundation, which is how I was introduced to them.
The goal was simple — provide enough funding for a generator for the organization. I can’t remember what the first goal was, but I think it was around $60,000 total.
The support for this effort has been awesome and the campaign has expanded as it blew through the original $60,000 goal. The handful of initial supporters has expanded to a now impressive list, that includes recent support from Marc Benioff.
The campaign is now shooting to raise enough money to Launch Gaza’s First Coding Academy. There are two days left in the campaign and are currently at $210,000 of a $270,000 goal.
If you are game to donate, please give us a hand. And spread the word.
If you are curious about the matching funds, they are coming from the following list of people.
Marc Benioff: Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Salesforce Skoll Foundation Brad Feld: Managing Director, Foundry Group Paul Graham: Co-Founder, Y Combinator Eric Ries: Entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup Dave McClure: Founding Partner, 500 Startups Fadi Ghandour: Co-Founder, Aramex Badr Jafar: CEO, Crescent Enterprises Hala Fadel: Partner, Leap Ventures Jon Bradford: Co-Founder of F6S and Tech.eu Freada Kapor Klein: Partner, Kapor Capital Mitch Kapor: Partner, Kapor Capital Zahi Khouri: Founder, Chairman, and CEO — National Beverage Company — Coca Cola Palestine Samih Toukan: Chairman of Jabbar, Co-Founder of Maktoob and Souq Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Principal scientist, Google Mustafa Sezgin: Head of Engineering in Amsterdam, Uber Khailee Ng: Managing Partner, 500 Startups Jenny Lawton: COO, Techstars David Cohen: Co-Founder, Techstars Christopher Schroeder: Investor and author Gisel Kordestani: COO, Crowdpac Hussain Al-Shorafa: Co-Founder, Second Act Zohre Elahian: Co-Founder and Board Member, Global Catalyst Foundation Zoe Adamovicz + the Neufund Team Krista Marks: CEO, Woot Math
Originally published at Feld Thoughts.
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