Volunteer Activities

Kimberly is obsessed with transforming Planet Earth for the better.  Here are a couple of ways she’s doing that:

SDForum Engineering Leadership Special Interest Group (EL SIG) – Kimberly’s the co-chair of this successful community of over 800 people.  The purpose of the EL SIG is to help members evolve beyond strictly technical leadership roles into people leadership and business management as they grow in their careers.

Innovating SMART – Innovating Smart provides services, solutions, education, conferences and tools to build an eco-system and community supportive of innovation, and enable effective innovation for organizations worldwide.  Kimberly is an advisor to Sue Lebeck, the Executive Program Director.

Open Kilowatt Institute – Kimberly is a founder and on the board of advisers for the Open Kilowatt Institute, an on-line collaborative community solving design and cost issues, empowering every home and office to be energy net-zero, cost-effectively.  OKI is creating an online collaborative community, modeled on the software opensource movement, to solve the hardware design/cost issues needed to make kilowatt-scale sustainable power and storage a practical reality. Our big, audacious end goal is to enable every house and office building to be energy net-zero, by driving the installed cost of small-scale renewable “green” energy down to the same or cheaper than coal (about 4 cents per kilowatt-hour, in the U.S.), within a single generation.

Donations

Kimberly regularly supports charities that help people improve their quality of life. Among her favorite charities are:

Kiva - a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.

Charity Water – a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.