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gracegarey

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About gracegarey

Connecting people at Watsi.

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    Comment #16054815

    Watsi | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-site preferred We're looking for mission-driven, full-stack engineers to join our team. Watsi is a San Francisco-based nonprofit building…

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    Comment #10740989

    Thank you! I was excited when we pulled that number, too - I lived in Ghana for a while. Great country and great people.

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    Comment #10510132

    Most of our funders don't receive anything in return. They just want to help Watsi scale. That said, many of them serve as informal advisors to us. So far, we've asked two of our f…

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    Comment #10509761

    Yes, we have plans to open source our software in the future. Stay tuned!

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    Comment #10509041

    Thank you! It's been a combination of 2 things: 1) building tools that make it easier for our hospital partners to scale with us more efficiently, thereby increasing their capacity…

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    Comment #8725499

    Wow, thank you! It took less than 90 minutes for all 1,000 of Segment's gift cards to be claimed. You can still buy a gift card here: https://watsi.org/gift-cards . They're a holid…

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    Comment #8724917

    We want to thank the team at Segment for making such a generous donation to Watsi patients. Segment not only buys Watsi gift cards for each of their new employees, but they donate …

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    Comment #8565190

    Amazing! Thanks so much for signing up. Your donation will go to a patient who's fundraising on our website but hasn't had their treatment fully funded yet (like these folks: https…

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    Np! People are generous with tips, which is awesome and helps a ton. At this stage, we're 100% focused on raising money for patients. But down the line we'll likely start optimizin…

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    Comment #8565031

    Thanks for the kind words! Our operational funding comes from investors and philanthropists ( https://watsi.org/faq#how-does-watsi-fund-its-day-to-day-ope... ). You can see them al…

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    Comment #8564972

    Glad you found your answers! Feel free to shoot us an email with questions anytime. I'm grace at watsi.org and the person leading our medical partner program is dan at watsi.org.

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    Of course. Thanks again for the support! You're helping a lot of patients.

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    Comment #8564630

    The Universal Fund is a rebrand/official launch of monthly donations. Your next month's donation will be automatically matched because you were one of the first thousand to join (t…

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    Yeah! Every month, donors receive an email introducing them to the patient they supported, which serves as a tax receipt for that month's contribution. We also aggregate tax receip…

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    Comment #8564125

    Thanks for sharing! Want to make sure we mention that thanks to the founders of Teespring, donations are matched for the first 1,000 people to sign up. Let us know if you have feed…