{"id":1496,"date":"2015-12-08T05:11:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:18:38","slug":"zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2015\/12\/zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"How to look at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned on writing my thoughts about the Chan Zuckerberg initiative &#8211; then found <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@anildash\/how-to-look-at-the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-f357e5dd8c63#.wcjazw159\" target=\"_blank\">this blog by Anil Dash<\/a> (thanks, Susan Tenby) which says it better than I can:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">It is absolutely fair and necessary to be critical of Zuckerberg\u2019s philanthropic efforts, both past and present<\/strong>, to ensure that this gift of $45 billion dollars is put to good use. That is because the default dispensation of the money will be to waste it. For example, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark schools to almost no effect, in a gift that was revealed to have been <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3004509\/how-100-million-really-gets-donated-mark-zuckerberg-style\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3004509\/how-100-million-really-gets-donated-mark-zuckerberg-style\">explicitly managed<\/a> by Sheryl Sandberg to be timed to offset the negative publicity surrounding the release of the movie <em class=\"markup--em markup--li-em\">The Social Network<\/em>. Given that track record, our default assumption should be that this is a similar move, though obviously this announcment\u00a0(sic) being coupled to the birth of their daughter makes such assumptions seem churlish or rude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please read the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@anildash\/how-to-look-at-the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-f357e5dd8c63#.wcjazw159\" target=\"_blank\">full blog by Anil Dash here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned on writing my thoughts about the Chan Zuckerberg initiative &#8211; then found this blog by Anil Dash (thanks, Susan Tenby) which says it better than I can: &#8220;It is absolutely fair and necessary to be critical of Zuckerberg\u2019s philanthropic efforts, both past and present, to ensure that this gift of $45 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1185],"tags":[83,133,195,951,1186],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csr","tag-charity","tag-csr","tag-facebook","tag-social-responsibility","tag-zuckerberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}