Posted by Kataneh Sarvian, Coordinator, Google.orgLast night the University of California, Berkeley hosted the 12th Annual Public Health Heroes Awards Ceremony in San Francisco. The goal of the Public Health Heroes honor is to broaden awareness and und…
Posted by Katy Bacon, Google.org TeamThis week, Google Grants marks its fifth year. The program currently supports more than 4,000 grantees and to date has provided approximately $273.3 million in free AdWords advertising. You can learn more about the…
Posted by Kirsten Olsen, Program Manager, Google.orgCalCars just received the Aspen Institute’s First Annual Energy and Environment Award for its prominent role in promoting PHEVs and the electrification of transportation. The inaugural award is meant…
Posted by Bennet Marks, Google.org volunteerGoogle.org recently hosted the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. More than 40 leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, most of them between 20 and 40 years of age, tra…
Posted by John Lyman, Associate, Google.orgLast month, Google and Google.org gathered a group of development NGOs together in Washington D.C. to discuss and learn about new technology tools. Because non-profits’ budgets are tight and available funds us…
Posted by Michael Terrell, Program Manager, Google.orgYesterday Google.org, along with representatives from the business and venture capital community, called on the U.S. Congress and the Bush Administration to work together to quickly approve extensio…
Posted by John Lyman, Associate, Google.orgToday Google.org, along with the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and the Omidyar Network, announced they are collaborating to create a $17 million enterprise investment company in India. The company is …
Posted by Corrie Conrad, Associate, Google.org Predict and Prevent InitiativeThis past December, the Rockefeller Foundation hosted a gathering of 23 leading experts and representatives of networks on infectious disease surveillance from around the worl…
Posted by Jacquelline Fuller, Head of Advocacy and Communications, Google.orgAt the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Larry Brilliant held a spirited Conversation on Climate Change and Google.org which was moderat…
Posted by Rachel Payne, Program Manager, Google.orgLast fall, a dozen Google employees served as lecturers, one-on-one consultants, and business plan evaluators for entrepreneurs participating in the Believe Begin Become business plan competition in Ta…
Posted by Adam Borelli, Team Coordinator, Google.orgGoogle.org’s RechargeIT initiative welcomed the Chevy Volt concept-car to our Mountain View campus yesterday. The Chevy Volt is a plug-in extended-range electric vehicle that operates on a combinatio…
Posted by Michael Terrell, Team Member, Google.orgIt came down to the 11th hour, and then dragged on for an extra day — but after two weeks of negotiations, delegates at the UN climate change conference in Bali settled on a plan for reaching a new int…
Posted by Kirsten Olsen, Project Manager, Google.orgThough all 15,000 participants of the UN climate conference have come to Bali to discuss the global response to climate change, there are many points of entry to the debate. Some enter through the pol…
Posted by David Bercovich, Project Manager, Google.orgThe theme today in Bali perhaps could best be summarized by the bumper sticker maxim, “think globally, act locally.” While the delegates continued negotiations on an international climate change a…
Posted by Michael Terrell, Team Member, Google.orgThis week, representatives from 190 countries are gathering in Bali, Indonesia to begin framing an international climate change agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The deleg…