Open Homes in Airbean B - It's Kind of Mine Blowing, Bob.

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Open homes in air bean b dot org sort of grew organically from a host's activity after a hurricane. It all started with a host in salt lake city named sarah brown. She booked that stay ind keve, and she put it up on her facebook group with other air beaby hosts. Why not support our host's community in ukraine? And this has led to millions of dollars flowing directly person to person.

Airbnb’s charitable arm, Airbnb.org, has committed to offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins Rapid Response to discuss how the company is deploying business tools for humanitarian benefit. He also shares how Airbnb’s platform has become a surprising tool to transfer money directly to individual Ukrainians, already generating $15 million. Along with co-founders Brian Chesky and Nate Blecharczyk, Joe is a fierce believer that companies should be responsible to “participate in the world around us” and the importance, as leaders, to ask: What would make us proud?

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