People

So far only a handful people of are involved, since the project is just getting started. In time we hope more people will get involved.

Brian in 2002

Brian Douglas Skinner: Brian is a software engineer, now in his 40s, living in San Francisco. Brian set up the Charity Scorecard site in 2006, with the goal of using it to figure out how best to give away $260,000. This Charity Scorecard project is his second take at amateur philanthropy. The first time he tried it was in the early 1990s, which led to his 1993 Gumption Memo. For more about Brian, see User:Skinner. For contact info, see Brian's transparent e-mail account.

Brian's mom: Before retiring, Brian's mom worked at the World Bank, occassionally traveling to Africa. She worked for many years on the Onchocerciasis Control Programme, a project which prevented an estimated six hundred thousand cases of African river blindness. She provided the inspiration and means to make the Charity Scorecard project possible. She has now retired to the family farm in Kansas, where she drives a pickup truck and lives in a stone cottage dating from the 1800s.

Patricia McDaniel: Patricia is a sociologist at the University of California, San Francisco. She has helped the Charity Scorecard project become a reality, by researching non-profit organizations and filling out questionnaires.

Rachel in nature, her favorite place

Rachel Katz: Rachel is a friend of Brian and Patricia's and got roped into the project while in between projects of her own. Rachel co-founded and lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeastern Missouri. She is also helping with her friends' nonprofit, The Mosaic Project, which brings together diverse children in the Bay Area, empowering them to strive for peace. For the Charity Scorecard, Rachel is filling out questionnaires and generally helping out.

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