Google Launches Effort to Spur Innovation in Nonprofit Sector With Grants

Google is announcing $23 million in grants to spur innovation among charities and increase education for girls and minority students in science and technology. Seven nonprofits won the first Google Global Impact Awards, each receiving a grant from Google: charity: water, DonorsChoose.org, World Wildlife Fund, Smithsonian's Barcode of Life, GiveDirectly, Equal Opportunity Schools and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.