Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she's only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

All lives have an equal value.