Network: Financial Support

The Carpenter Family Trust

The organization: Private family trust

The relationship: Peter and his wife Jane provided a generous donation of funds to support the development of our communications strategy redesign.

Benificus Foundation

The organization: Private foundation

The relationship: Through their Foundation, John and his wife Ann provided a generous donation to us in December 2007 as part of the TED Prize pledge.

Google.org

The organization: Google.org uses Google’s strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges.

The relationship: Google.org provided original funding in the Fall of 2006 and continues to support our ongoing disease surveillance programs throughout the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network. Google.org also supports InSTEDD’s local capacity building efforts for design and technology development through the Innovation Lab in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We are Google.org’s largest grantee.

The Rockefeller Foundation

The organization: John D. Rockefeller Sr. established the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. Today, the Rockefeller Foundation supports work that helps people tap into the benefits of globalization and strengthen resilience to risks.

The relationship: We received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in late 2007 to improve local capacity building in South East Asia and support the MBDS network’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) goals. Through the Rockefeller Foundation’s funding, we were able to support the startup of the Innovation Lab in Phnom Penh.

The organization: A registered charity in the United States and United Kingdom, the Foundation leverages the skills, values and expertise across Thomson Reuters to promote the rule of law, save lives in disasters and improve standards of journalism.

The relationship: We worked under the leadership of the Thomson Reuters Foundation to design and implement technology to support AlertNet’s Emergency Information System (EIS).

Website: http://www.thomsonreuters.com/

Skoll Foundation

The organization: The Skoll Foundation was created by Jeff Skoll in 1999 with a mission to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems.

The relationship: Provided a generous donation to support InSTEDD’s presence on the ground during the Haiti Earthquake relief efforts.

J. Leighton Read, M.D.

The individual: Dr. Read is a Team Member at Alloy Ventures, an early stage venture fund, and a successful entrepreneur and CEO.

The relationship: He provided a generous private donation to InSTEDD which sponsored transportation and accommodations for our team to be present within the first days of the relief efforts in Haiti.

The company: Cisco Systems, Inc is a multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services.

The relationship: In October of 2010, Cisco awarded a seed grant to InSTEDD for the development of technology designed to improve the resilience of community-level disaster response. This grant was for the development of a program to support shared safety, selfreliance and situational awareness during a public crisis in the Bay Area. InSTEDD designed, developed, and pilot tested a tool, called Watchfire, to help the American Red Cross improve their communitylevel disaster response in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Website: http://www.cisco.com/