Progress Report on Stanford Hospital’s Emergency Department

October 16, 2014 / / No Comments

In 2007, Laura () and I committed a $27.5 million donation to Stanford Hospital’s Emergency Department. Our donation was for both the current and future Stanford Emergency Department. Today, I want to provide an update on the new Emergency Department!

Stanford is building an entirely new hospital in the heart of Silicon Valley, which will start operation in 2018.

New Standford Hospital

The overall project is 824,000 square feet and will include our new Emergency Department, which will be twice the size of today’s and fully cutting-edge. The hospital will cost $1.8 billion in total. Of that, $600 million in philanthropic donations has already been raised, of a $700M target. Philanthropic donors include both individuals like us and local companies: Adobe, Apple, Cisco, eBay, HP, Intel, Intuit, Nvidia, and Oracle.

The new Stanford Hospital will be profoundly transformative for the Silicon Valley community, from complex cancer care to 3AM emergencies. The new Stanford ED will provide a more powerful healthcare safety net for our lowest-income, homeless, and undocumented immigrant neighbors. Stanford Hospital CEO, Amir Dan Rubin and colleagues, are building the future of healthcare in Silicon Valley, something Laura and I are thrilled to support.

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If you’d like to join us in supporting the new Stanford Hospital, donations can be made online here.

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Three New Andreessen-Arrillaga Inclusion Grants

October 10, 2014 / / No Comments

This morning my wife Laura () and I are tickled pink to announce three Andreessen-Arrillaga Inclusion Grants. These three Inclusion Grants total $500,000, and go to three stellar young nonprofit organizations working to grow inclusion in tech.

  • Code2040 () helps high-performing black and Latino engineering students begin amazing careers with top tech employers.
  • Hack The Hood () provides low-income youth of color with training and mentoring in computer and business skills.
  • Girls Who Code () catalyzes girls in junior/senior years of high school to gain computing skills and connect into the tech industry.

Laura and I couldn’t be more excited to work with all three amazing groups to help them scale their programs over the next several years. We think there’s a huge opportunity to include more people, including/especially underrepresented groups, into the tech field and industry.

Finally, a big thank you to the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. My 2013 prize money helped fund these grants. Sign up now for ‘s Stanford philanthropy MOOC course starting this week, she taught me everything I know!

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