Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey Just Gave $3.5 Million to San Francisco’s Experimental Program Offering Guaranteed Income for Artists

Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey Just Gave $3.5 Million to San Francisco’s Experimental Program Offering Guaranteed Income for Artists

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Guaranteed Income Pilot. Courtesy of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As San Francisco prepares to begin offering guaranteed income for artists, Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey has donated $3.46 million to the pilot program through his charity #StartSmall.

News of the gift came as the city announced the inaugural cohort of 130 recipients, all of whom were set to receive $1,000 a month for six months. But thanks to the new funding, the program will now be expanded to run for a year and a half, and payments will be extended to an […]

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