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gracegareyon Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'

Awesome idea.

gracegareyon Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'

Awesome. Thanks for donating!

It's pretty incredible to think that by connecting people, we may be able to transcend systems that aren't working.

gracegareyon Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the kind words.

Re: media strategy. Broad, national, mainstream outlets will be our next big challenge. Today would be amazing. Good Morning America, Frontline World News, 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper, Fareed Zakariah, Ellen, Diane Sawyer, Nick Kristof, Al Jazeera...any of those would be a pinnacle :)

gracegareyon Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'

Thank you for everything, Eric!

gracegareyon Want to be a true innovator? Teach a kid to code (TED Talk)

ScriptEd is of the scrappiest, most awesome startups I've come across recently.

gracegareyon Meet Everlyne, Our Newest Team Member Via Watsi

You're awesome, Jaisen. We're excited to partner with Trovebox!

gracegareyon Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate

Great question. We typically fund treatments that are likely to be curative, so we haven't dealt with this yet. But in the event that a patient's condition isn't fully resolved through treatment, we'd let the donors know, and if the Medical Partner felt it was appropriate to re-submit the patient to Watsi for funding of follow-up care, we certainly wouldn't be against it.

gracegareyon Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate

Absolutely! We don't have a formal internship or volunteer program yet. But we'd love to connect and see if there's a way we can get you involved. Feel free to email connect@watsi.org and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

gracegareyon Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate

We're really excited about using video down the line. Right now, you're right. There are some tough barriers. But we hope to overcome them in the not-too-distant future!

gracegareyon Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate

No worries! Not at all. Thanks again :)

gracegareyon Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate

We do our best to make sure no patient goes without an update for too long, but are a bit constrained by our operational capacity right now (part of the reason we're fundraising).

In Madeline's case, the surgery is taking longer than anticipated because she had some unanticipated dental issues that her doctors wanted to take care of before they operated.

Because of limited resources, we usually prioritize sending "final" updates over "preliminary" ones, but you're right that in Madeline's case we definitely need to prioritize keeping her donors posted on the reason for the delay.

As Chase mentioned, this kind of crowdsourced spot checking is exactly why we make all of our records public. Thanks for bringing this up!

gracegareyon The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient

This is coming soon - it's one of the top feature requests we get. Thanks for the feedback!

gracegareyon The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient

We totally agree, and we're excited to to integrate updates into the platform as soon as possible. For now, you can view updates (and tons more info) for every patient we've ever funded on our Transparency Google Document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...

gracegareyon The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient

This is so awesome. I'd love to share your story with the rest of the Watsi community. Mind shooting an email to grace@watsi.org so we can connect?