Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Sean Penn’s COVID-19 Testing Organization
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variety.comBy Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, has donated $10 million to CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), the coronavirus-testing organization co-founded by Sean Penn.
The donation, via Dorsey’s #StartSmall initiative, will let CORE open free COVID-19 testing sites in additional major metro areas as well as rural communities across the U.S.
CORE has operated a dozen COVID-19 test sites across California over the past five weeks and says it has completed 100,000 tests free of charge.
The organization’s testing sites in Atlanta and Detroit are already operating and it will launch additional sites soon in New Orleans and the Navajo Nation.
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