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Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday said he d partnered with Jay-Z on a bitcoin endowment.
The pair will invest 500 bitcoin to develop the currency in India and Africa, Dorsey said.
Dorsey posted a form for applicants for three board seats for the endowment, called ₿trust.
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey on Thursday announced a partnership with Jay-Z to start a bitcoin endowment, which will be focused on developing the cryptocurrency in India and Africa. It ll be set up as a blind irrevocable trust, taking zero direction from us, Dorsey said on Twitter.
Called ₿trust, the endowment is being funded with an initial investment of 500 bitcoin, worth roughly $23.6 million as of Friday morning.
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday said he d partnered with Jay-Z on a bitcoin endowment. The pair will invest 500 bitcoin to develop the currency
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The school will also invest up to $25 million with climate impact funds.
Tufts University joins the growing number of colleges that have pledged to end direct investments into coal and tar sands companies. The decision comes after a review from an internal school sustainability committee.
A list of 120 of the largest energy firms will be banned by the $1.9 billion endowment, the university said Wednesday. At the moment, the school has no direct investments into the excluded companies, though the list will be reviewed and updated every year.
Over the next five years, Tufts says it also plans to invest up to $25 million into climate impact funds. A minimum of $10 million will be allocated by the school. The other $15 million would come from matching donor contributions to the endowment that are earmarked specifically for climate change.
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Education Foundation of Teton Valley has an opportunity to invest $500,000 in an endowment to ensure the future sustainability of the organization. The donor, who will match up to $250,000 in contributions to the endowment, gave the local nonprofit five years to collect the other half. Over the course of the first two years, the board was able to raise approximately $210,000 during the private phase of fundraising. Now, as the effort moves into the public phase, the organization hopes to finish strong and collect the remaining $50,000.
âOne of my goals has always been to make the nonprofit sustainable,â explained Pam Walker, who is the outgoing executive director of the Education Foundation. âWith this endowment, we could weather bad times, or, if we have a really great project idea, we would be free to implement it immediately without having to first navigate fundraising.â Walker has been at the helm of the Tet