Twilio.org Celebrates Five Year Anniversary, Meets Goal of Powering a Billion Messages for Good Five Years Early
September 18 2018 - 09:00AM
Twilio.org’s Impact Fund Invests in
Education Social Enterprise Kinvolved
Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the leading cloud communications platform,
today announced that the company’s social impact arm, Twilio.org,
is celebrating its five-year anniversary and has met its goal of
powering a billion messages for good five years early. It is
setting a new 10-year goal to have social impact organizations
around the world using the platform to help 1 billion people every
year. The Twilio.org Impact Fund also announced an impact
investment in Kinvolved, and that it has awarded grants to
Democracy Works and DoSomething.org to focus on increasing voter
participation this election season.
Twilio.org was created in 2013 to provide technical, financial
and strategic support to help social impact organizations solve
social and environmental problems. When it initially set its
billion messages for good goal, it expected to achieve it in 10
years, but has powered these messages in half that time. By
providing organizations with the same industry-leading technology
that private sector disruptors use to connect to the world,
Twilio.org helps these organizations make a lasting impact.
“Twilio.org arms nonprofits and social enterprises with the
communication tools needed to create a positive impact on people
around the world,” said Erin Reilly, vice president of Social
Impact and general manager of Twilio.org.
Twilio Impact Fund Investments
The Twilio.org Impact Fund makes investments in social
enterprises that use innovative communications technologies to
achieve their missions and demonstrate the potential to scale
further with technology. Following Twilio.org’s recent investments
in Cell-Ed and Edovo, Twilio.org has made a $100,000 investment in
Kinvolved, an organization that uses technology to help aid in its
mission of boosting student attendance through its KiNVO mobile
app.
“Twilio has been a supportive Kinvolved partner since 2013, when
we first began using its service to enable real-time communications
about attendance from school to home,” said Miriam Altman, CEO and
co-founder of Kinvolved. “The Twilio Impact Fund investment
represents an alignment of our organization’s objectives and is a
significant milestone in a relationship we are excited to expand in
the years ahead.”
Get out the Vote
Every second, 15 people raise their voices to elected officials
using Twilio. With Voices for Democracy, a nonpartisan civic
engagement initiative, Twilio.org unites social impact
organizations with software developers to build and scale tools
that advance the discourse between citizens and elected officials.
In the lead up to the United States midterm elections, Twilio has
also awarded two organizations with grants to promote voter
turnout, including:
- Democracy Works (TurboVote), a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated
to the idea that voting should fit the way we live; and
- DoSomething.org, the largest tech organization focused on
activating young people to make positive change both online and
offline through campaigns that make an impact.
In the coming weeks, each of these organizations will launch
unique programs and campaigns to engage underrepresented voting
groups and encourage individuals to vote.
A Billion MoreTwilio.org’s billion messages for
good milestone proves the power of communications to amplify the
impact that organizations can make on people’s lives. Over the next
decade, Twilio.org is aiming to reach even more people and help
organizations make an impact in the world. Reilly states, “As we
continue to expand the work of Twilio.org, we believe that through
developer creativity and innovation, we’ll be able to help a
billion people each year.”
About Twilio.org Twilio.org works with
nonprofits and social enterprises to fuel communications that give
hope, power and freedom. By connecting social impact organizations,
passionate software developers and the full power of the Twilio
platform, Twilio.org ignites positive change on a local and global
scale. To date, more than 2,000 charities and nonprofits have used
Twilio to send more than a billion messages for good.
About Twilio More than 2 million developers
around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of
communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has
democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, and
video by virtualizing the world’s telecommunications infrastructure
through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet
robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By
making communications a part of every software developer's toolkit,
Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging
leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how
companies engage with their customers.
Source: Twilio
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