Beyond Chron
Monday, July 14th, 2008
July 14, 2008 — Chiu co-founded Grassroots while a staff attorney at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights – where he managed online communications for a coalition of 50 civil rights, social service, religious and labor organizations. It was doing this work that inspired him to start the company. “There weren’t many technology tools at the time for organizing,” he said, “so we started with the premise of providing it to people of all backgrounds.” (link to the full story at BeyondChron)