Tuesday, July 21, 2020
HelpWith Black Equity Launches To Connect Volunteers With Racial Equity Efforts
A new effort--HelpWith Black Equity, said on Tuesday that it has launched, to help connect people with time and skills to projects advancing racial equity across the globe. The new effort--powered by social impact company Deed, the company founded by Deevee Kashi, with the help of OpenAI, the company of former YCombinator President Sam Altman--said the new virtual, skills-based volunteering platform is based on a similar platform, HelpWith COVID, which was created by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others to help connect people helping in assisting with issues created by the pandemic. That efforts says it has so far connected over 15,000 volunteers, most with technology backgrounds, to projects based on their skills and interests that support COVID-19 programs.