It's the last day to DONATE in 2025, and tomorrow is the first day to DONATE in 2026. Choose your day. I just finished reading "Effective Altruism" by Jacob Bauer! It's REALLY worth a read. If you are one of my ex Technology Industry/Amazon Web Services (AWS) co-retirees, FLEX your DAF! Think about donating to United Ways of California's DxF Data Interoperability Project. "Effective Altruism" talks about finding scale of impact, FIT of mission, and solvability of the need. As I and several ex AWS & IBM colleagues donate time and treasure to United Ways of California, to use Data to better Coordinate Care to the least privileged, please ADD your treasure to the project here: https://unitedwaysca.org/donate-data-exchange
United Ways CA 211s route people calling in need to hundreds and thousands of smaller Community Based Organizations. Data sharing makes that work more EFFECTIVE. Bring your Altruism, to our EFFECTIVENESS program. Call me if you need more context. We need money to fund the data engineering to help make it work broadly in 32 Counties, and improve Provable Outcomes. Don't hesitate. Make a difference with me. Thanks.
Happy 2026. With the upcoming Trump Administration cuts, 2026 will be seeing a bigger cohort of homelessness, food insecurity and healthcare gaps. United Ways - America's 3rd largest NPO - will be facing those gaps. But Effectiveness needs good data. Shared.