Our Founding Donors

Everyone at InSTEDD is thankful for the support of our Founding Donors. Their support of InSTEDD is a demonstration of their commitment to help realize our shared vision that, through improved collaboration and information flow, this can be a safer and healthier world for everyone.

Benificus Foundation, which has made numerous donations on behalf of innovations in health-related initiatives, founded by John Doerr, a partner at San Francisco Bay Area venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Jane and Peter Carpenter, Bay Area based philanthropists. Mr. Carpenter is a Director of InSTEDD (see Our Board).

Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google.com and headed by Dr. Larry Brilliant, Director of InSTEDD (see Our Board and Our History), which has provided both organizational and grant funds to support our work in southeast Asia (www.google.org).

The Rockefeller Foundation of New York, one of America's oldest private foundations whose central historical mission is to "promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world," which has given us a grant to support our work in southeast Asia (www.rockfound.org).

Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a United States law firm and legal advisor to InSTEDD, serving technology and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them (www.wsgr.com).

And various private donors through the:
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation, serving organizations improving the quality of life in our region, and to those who want to give back locally, nationally and internationally (www.siliconvalleycf.org), and
• Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, dedicated to pursuing new approaches to creative grantmaking and to maximizing the impact of the philanthropic dollar (www.venturesfoundation.org).

If you wish to make a donation or are interested in discussing grant opportunities to support our work, please contact Judith Kleinberg, Vice President & COO, at exec@instedd.org or +1-650-353-4440.