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Larry Brilliant posted an April 6 update on the current team staffing. The lineup looks strong — the introduction says:

It has been almost exactly one year since I began my work at Google.org. We’ve been in a bit of a quiet period during that time, meeting with foundation leaders, activists, NGOs, and scientists — and Googlers — from all over the world. My major task has been to build a world-class team, comprised of experienced Google managers paired with content experts from the fields of climate change, global public health and economic development to spearhead strategic initiatives for our philanthropic efforts.

There were four of us one year ago; today we are 25 people, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce a few of the newer members of our team. Dan Reicher, former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, joins Aimee Christensen, Kirsten Olsen and Googler Ki Mun to work on our clean energy and climate change initiatives, policy and advocacy.

Each team is described — but there are still no specifics on any projects. I’ve been hoping to see progress reports on INSTEDD, but no luck so far. If any readers have found reports, please advise. TEDster Bruno Giussani wrote a nice survey piece on Larry Brilliant’s TED Prize presentation including links to GPHIN2 resources. The operational GPHIN2 is the genesis of Brilliant’s INSTEDD proposal. I’ll create a separate post of Larry Brilliant’s note emailed around the TED attendees.

Note that google.org is a superset which includes the smaller Google Foundation. The organizational design evidently was chosen to permit investing in for-profit entities, which makes a lot of sense to me.

The NY Times surveyed the google.org design last September.

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