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All books are difficult to write. Add a pandemic on top of it, and a special kind of endurance is required. We are extremely grateful to our colleagues and friends and family who supported us during the writing of this book.

You can't write a book during a global pandemic without the very patient support of your family. Allison would like to thank all of her Freiman boys for their patience and encouragement during the very long sheltering in place. Beth would like to thank her husband, Walter, and her children, Harry and Sara, who gave her the time and space to write.

A special thanks to Brian Neill, Deborah Schindlar, Kelly Talbot, and the rest of the team at Wiley. We are very grateful for your enthusiasm for this book and our long partnership with the company. Onward!

We'd also like to thank our book assistant, Kait Heacock, for her terrific work,

This book would not have been possible without the early investment in our work on smart tech and philanthropy by Victoria Vrana and Parastou Youssefi at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They and their team are thoughtful, prescient innovators and advocates for the democratization of philanthropy.

We are very grateful for the time and input of experts working at the intersection of technology and social good. They are doing the hard work everyday of healing the world. In particular, we are thankful to: Alexandra Goodwin, Allen Gunn, Anna Bethke, Anurag Banerjee, Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Cinthia Schuman, Chris Tuttle, Christopher Noessel, Darrell Malone, David A Colarusso, France Q. Hoang, Heejae Lim, Iain De Jong, Jake Garcia, Jake Maguire, Jill Finlayson, John Mayer, Julie Cordua, Kevin Bromer, Leah Post, Leila Toplic, Mohammad Radiyat, Nancy Smyth, Nick Bailey, Nick Hamlin, Ravindar Gujral, Rhodri Davies, Rita Ko, Shalini Kantayya, Steve MacLaughlin, Sue Citro, and Woodrow Rosenbaum.

We want to give a special thanks to friends and colleagues who read parts of this book, answered questions, and gave us advice (when we asked for it and when we didn't!). In particular, we'd like to thank: Tamara Gropper, Mark Polisar, Lucy Bernholz, Johanna Morariu, Lisa Belkin, and Amy Sample Ward for their input and advice.