Kapor Capital, and SMASH have been located in the Uptown neighborhood of Oakland, CA. Diversity in technology In August 2015, Mitch and Freada announced they would invest $40 million over three years to accelerate their work to make the tech ecosystem more inclusive. In addition to his roles at Kapor Capital and Kapor Center, Mitch currently serves on the board of SMASH, whose mission is to enhance equal opportunity in education and the workplace, and sits on the advisory board of Generation Investment Management, a firm whose vision is to embed sustainability into the mainstream capital markets. Personal life He is married to Freada Kapor Klein and resides in Oakland and Healdsburg, California. Both served on the board of trustees of the Summer Science Program from 2004 to 2006. He was a student of the program in 1966. Awards and honors 1985 – Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 2003 – Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Norbert Wiener Award 2005 – EFF Pioneer Award 2010 – REDF Inno+prise Award 2015 – Ford Legacy Award 2018 – Elon University Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership See also Massively distributed collaboration List of Jewish American activists References Further reading Rosenberg, Scott. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software (2007) Random House , about Mitch Kapor, collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler. Articles "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace" - Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991 Articles in the EFF archive External links Mitch Kapor's weblog archives "Inside Mitch Kapor's World" Mitch Kapor's "Why Wikipedia Is the Next Big Thing" Wikimania 2006 bio "How to Build a Successful Company", Kapor speaking at Stanford (podcast & video) Kapor Center For Social Impact Kapor Capital 1950 births Living people People from Brooklyn People from Freeport, New York Businesspeople from San Francisco People from Healdsburg, California Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Yale College alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni American computer businesspeople 20th-century American Jews Second Life Internet activists Electronic Frontier Foundation people Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board members Mozilla people Summer Science Program American bloggers American technology company founders American chairpersons of corporations Open source advocates 21st-century American Jews