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Top Silicon Valley Companies and Leaders Form the “Disaster Relief for Haiti Initiative”

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Devin D. Thorpe
Oct 07, 2016
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Leaders in Silicon Valley joined forces with New Story to provide immediate relief and long-term rebuilding projects to those affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

Press Release – San Francisco, CA: October 6, 2016 – As a result of Hurricane Matthew, a devastating Category 4 hurricane, dozens of Silicon Valley leaders and companies have joined forces to support the Silicon Valley Disaster Relief for Haiti initiative. Haiti continues to experience traumatic flooding, wind damage, landslides, power outages, crop losses and with thousands still displaced from the 2010 Haiti earthquake, many families are struggling to find shelter. While the world watched in horror as Hurricane Matthew made landfall, Keith Krach, Chairman and CEO of DocuSign, was inspired to organize fellow Silicon Valley leaders to the relief cause.

Krach reached out to New Story, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco with a proven and transparent track record that 100% of all donations go towards building perma…

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