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Smiling Mind operates as a true nonprofit since 2012, providing a completely free mindfulness and meditation app with 700+ sessions. Unlike for-profit mental health apps that monetize user data, Smiling Mind's nonprofit model ensures no profit motive for data exploitation. The organization demonstrates sustainable nonprofit digital mental health care.

Intellect built Asia's largest mental health platform serving 3.7 million users across 40 languages with culturally-adapted mental health support. Backed by Y Combinator and Tiger Global, the Singapore-based company addresses the significant mental health treatment gap in Southeast Asia where stigma and lack of access remain major barriers.

Naluri established Malaysia's largest mental health dataset with over 20,000 adult participants through rigorous clinical research programs. The TELUS-backed company combines digital therapeutics with evidence-based research, partnering with government health initiatives to address mental health needs in Malaysia.

Intel has been the top corporate contributor to the Linux kernel for more than 15 years, with over 19,000 engineers participating in more than 700 foundations and standards bodies. Intel contributes upstream to over 300 community-managed open source projects including Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenJDK, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLVM, and GCC. The company has contributed to the open source software community since 1989, pushing contributions upstream to ensure cross-platform optimization and security.

Amaha (formerly InnerHour) became India's leading mental health platform with 4.5 million users and 110+ in-house therapists. The company addresses India's significant mental health treatment gap where only a small fraction of those needing care receive it, making therapy accessible through digital platforms in a country with severe psychiatrist shortages.

Bark Technologies monitors 3,400+ schools, assigning mental health 'risk scores' to students based on their communications. Research found 44% of schools report students contacted by police due to monitoring. GoGuardian (similar tool) flags LGBTQ+ resources and counseling sites. A trans student was reported to officials for a writing assignment about past therapy. Students report self-censoring and avoiding online mental health resources due to surveillance. Academic research found 'universal mental health screening does not improve clinical or academic outcomes and has harmful effects.'

After receiving FDA approval for human trials in May 2023, Neuralink deviated from established scientific communication standards by announcing significant clinical trial updates via social media platforms rather than registering its brain implant trial on ClinicalTrials.gov, the standard public database for clinical trial transparency and accountability. Industry experts and ethicists raised concerns about this approach, noting it undermined scientific transparency and ethical accountability for a medical device implanted in human brains.

Khan Academy implements comprehensive student data privacy protections: restricted accounts for users under 13 consistent with COPPA, Data Protection Agreements with school districts asserting FERPA/COPPA/PPRA compliance, and explicit policies preventing LLM providers from training on student data. Names and personal information are not shared with AI model providers. No COPPA violations or major data privacy incidents have been reported against Khan Academy through 2025, distinguishing it from many ed-tech peers who have faced FTC enforcement actions.

Australia's Workplace Gender Equality Agency awarded Thoughtworks its Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation for the 13th year in a row. The company achieved its 2019 goal of 40% women or gender-diverse people in technologist roles by 2022, and maintains 40-50% gender diversity in leadership programs since 2012. Policies include inclusive parental leave and medical health insurance for same-sex partners.

SpaceX's policy of deorbiting Starlink satellites at end-of-life results in satellite burnup in the upper atmosphere, depositing aluminum oxide particles and other metallic compounds. With thousands of satellites expected to reenter over the constellation's lifetime, atmospheric scientists have raised concerns about potential ozone layer impacts and stratospheric chemistry changes. The long-term environmental effects of routine mass satellite disposal through atmospheric reentry remain poorly understood.

In 2024, Salesforce employees performing similar jobs were paid on par across genders globally and race in the US. The company, which pioneered equal pay audits in 2015, offers gender affirmation benefits including four weeks paid leave, medical reimbursement for surgeries, hormonal therapy, and legal fee reimbursements. Nine Ohana employee resource groups serve one in three employees, including Outforce for LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Cisco topped Great Place to Work's Best Workplaces for Parents list for the fifth consecutive year in 2024. Under CEO Chuck Robbins, Cisco has maintained strong commitments to DEI including supplier diversity programs, internal equity audits, and comprehensive parental leave policies that support work-life balance for all genders.

TSMC accounts for 150,000 tonnes of water per day (equivalent to 170,000 US households) and 6.4% of Taiwan's national electricity. Southern Taiwan Science Park facilities alone consume 99,000 tonnes daily. Taiwanese farmers are paid to keep fields fallow so water that would go to agriculture can feed semiconductor plants. During droughts, plants ordered to reduce consumption by 15% but TSMC resorted to buying truckloads of water and drilling drought-resistant wells.

Following Broadcom's $69 billion VMware acquisition in November 2023, the company implemented dramatic price increases of 800-1,500% and eliminated perpetual licenses in favor of subscription-only models. This triggered multiple lawsuits: AT&T sued over licensing changes (settled), UK supermarket chain Tesco filed a £100 million lawsuit alleging Broadcom is forcing massive overpayment and threatening to shut down systems, and numerous other customers reported similar experiences. Broadcom's approach has been characterized as 'predatory' with customers facing 10-15x cost increases.

Netflix offers up to 52 weeks of paid parental leave to all salaried employees regardless of gender, tenure, or family formation method (birth, adoption, surrogacy). The policy, introduced in 2015, makes Netflix the highest-ranked Russell 1000 company for parental leave according to JUST Capital. Benefits include global family forming support for fertility, surrogacy, and adoption regardless of marital status, gender, or sexual orientation. Average usage is 6.3 months (US) and 7.5 months (international).

Spotify provides six months of fully paid parental leave to all parents regardless of gender or sexual orientation, including birth parents, adoptive parents, same-sex couples, and surrogates. Leave can be taken up to the child's third birthday. Nearly 60% of leave-takers are male, reflecting genuine gender equity in uptake. The company also confirmed equal pay and promotion rates across genders for three consecutive years.

Intel has maintained gender pay equity globally and race/ethnicity pay equity in the US since 2019, confirmed again in 2024. The company's RISE strategy set 2030 goals including doubling women in senior leadership, exceeding 40% female representation in technical roles, and increasing employees with disabilities to 10%. Intel was among the first companies to publicly release EEO-1 pay data for transparency.

Tomás Vega, co-founder of Augmental, publicly stated that 'the biggest challenge is building a company for social good — it's challenging, because the market for solutions for people with disabilities is not considered significant by most investors.' He also noted that 'the idea of disabilities is not as flashy as B2B SaaS,' highlighting systemic bias in venture capital against disability-focused startups. Despite creating the MouthPad (tongue-controlled interface for people with paralysis), winning Forbes 30 Under 30, and recognition at CES 2024, Augmental raised only just over $1M since 2019 and had to develop other B2B products to fund their accessibility mission.

IBM was among the first corporations to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy in 1984, decades before most companies. In 1995, the company launched an LGBT Executive Task Force. By 1996-97, IBM extended health benefits to same-sex domestic partners across all 110,000 US employees, the largest US company to do so at the time. Gender identity was added to global policy in 2002. In 2020, IBM apologized for its 1968 firing of transgender computing pioneer Lynn Conway and awarded her a Lifetime Achievement Award. The company earned 15 consecutive perfect scores on the HRC Corporate Equality Index.

In 2024, John Collison launched a five-year health initiative in Ireland, funded in the millions, aimed at halving the time it takes to diagnose cerebral palsy in newborns. The initiative represents a significant personal commitment to healthcare access in his home country.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella visited GyroGear's booth at CES 2024, inquiring about GyroGlove's product availability, future pipeline, and technology implementation. This high-profile interest from a major tech CEO highlights the potential of assistive technology innovations for people with Parkinson's disease and hand tremors.

In 2024, Qualcomm's Wireless Reach initiative reached its 2025 goal to positively impact the lives of over 27 million people since the program's launch in 2006. The program brings advanced technologies to underserved communities around the world. In April 2024, Qualcomm announced the first winner of the Wireless Reach Social Impact Fund: Ecorich Solutions Limited, a female-founded organization in Nairobi, Kenya, which developed the Wastebot, a smart food composter using AI and IoT to convert organic waste into affordable fertilizer for small-scale farmers.

By 2024, more than 50% of Netflix's approximately $15 billion content budget was allocated to markets outside North America. Since 2020, Netflix has commissioned 814 titles internationally - more than twice as many as Warner Bros Discovery and Amazon. The company pledged $2.5 billion in South Korea through 2027, nearly $6 billion in the UK by end of 2023, $200 million on Brazilian content, and $1.9 billion on Asia-Pacific local content in 2023. Non-English language titles accounted for 30% of viewing in the first half of 2023, with significant representation of Spanish-language and Korean content. Netflix also distributed more than $35 million to creative equity programs globally by 2024.

Airbnb set Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) aligned goals to reach corporate net-zero emissions by 2030. By 2023, the company had already surpassed its 2030 operational emissions reduction target ahead of schedule. As of 2024, Airbnb achieved 100% renewable electricity for corporate operations for the fifth consecutive year. The company committed $100 million to two funds dedicated to sustainable forest management and carbon credit generation, and engaged nearly 70 suppliers representing 61% of 2022 corporate emissions in its Supplier Sustainability Program. However, critics note Scope 3 emissions from host stays and experiences are excluded from reporting.

The World Benchmarking Alliance assessment found that Sequoia Capital has no publicly available policy committing to respect human rights as laid out in the UN Guiding Principles and ILO declaration. The firm disclosed no target to reach net-zero financed emissions by 2050, no key sectors identified for climate engagement, and no sustainability responsibility assigned to senior leadership. The assessment also found no evidence of linking executive remuneration to sustainability performance criteria, representing significant gaps in ESG governance for one of the world's most influential venture capital firms.

In Khan's first year as FTC Chair, the agency suffered a dramatic drop in workplace morale. In 2020, 87% of surveyed FTC employees agreed senior officials maintain high standards of honesty and integrity. By 2024, that share stood at just 49%. The agency experienced record attrition of FTC lawyers, with reports of 'reduced morale and high attrition' following failed lawsuits. Internal emails showed career staff expressing concern that Khan 'did not want the FTC to be successful.'

Before discontinuing DEI hiring targets in 2025, Adobe had built a strong equality record. The company achieved global gender pay parity, with women and men receiving dollar-for-dollar equal pay for comparable roles. Adobe scored 100% on the HRC Corporate Equality Index for over 7 consecutive years, indicating comprehensive LGBTQ+ workplace protections. The company offered 26 weeks paid maternity leave and 16 weeks for non-birth parents, and supported employee networks including Adobe Pride, Adobe Women's Leadership, and Black@Adobe.

YouTube introduced a revenue sharing model for Shorts creators, giving them 45% of revenue from the Creator Pool while YouTube retains 55% (largely to cover music licensing costs). Ad revenue from between Shorts in the feed is pooled monthly, then distributed based on each creator's share of total eligible views. While payout rates are modest ($0.03-$0.10 per 1,000 views), the model provides an actual revenue share rather than a fixed fund, aligning platform and creator incentives. Additional monetization options include Super Thanks tipping and affiliate product tagging.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with DoorDash for routinely rejecting delivery worker applicants with criminal histories without fair assessment, in violation of state human rights and corrections laws and the NYC Fair Chance Act. In a one-year period, DoorDash rejected approximately 3,000 New York applicants based on their criminal history without considering the age of the applicant when the offense was committed, rehabilitation efforts, or time elapsed since the offense. Of 2,898 rejected applicants, 57 submitted appeals but DoorDash did not reverse any rejections.

Cisco is a Platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and a Platinum sponsor of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The company is a top contributor to OpenTelemetry and the Kubernetes ecosystem, and launched Foundation AI, an open-source AI initiative for cybersecurity. Cisco's engineers serve in leadership roles across open source governance including as maintainers of key supply chain security projects.