Betterment is headquartered in New York City, and has received funding from Menlo Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Anthemis Group.
Community Informatics overlaps to a considerable degree with digital literacy by being concerned with ensuring the opportunity not only for ICT access at the community level but also, according to Michael Gurstein, that the means for the "effective use" of ICTs for community betterment and empowerment are available.
United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez said that his career was proof that management could work with farm labor "for the betterment of all." Black served as a trustee of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The American Jewish Committee, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Babson College, the Jewish Guild for the Blind, and the Jewish Museum.
To justify this decoration, nominations must have demonstrated exceptional performance of duty while in a position of great responsibility, clearly above that normally expected, which has contributed materially to the betterment of the United States.
During his life he was member of Pakistan Tobacco Board, Cotton Control Board of Pakistan, agriculture and water affairs and worked for the betterment of farmers of Pakistan.
For example, Dr. Booker T. Washington, a famous African-American educator, had a long-time friendship with millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers who provided him with substantial amounts of money to be applied for the betterment and education of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
After Professor Meghnad Saha returned from Allahabad in 1938 to succeed Sir C. V. Raman in the Palit Chair of Physics, he reorganized the post graduate physics curriculum of University of Calcutta to include nuclear physics by 1940 after realising immense potential of the subject for betterment of the country.
Genetic Scientist Paul Musevini encouraged his devoted human followers at Ayn Rand Station, orbiting the planet Fountainhead, to lead a life of constant physical, mental, and emotional betterment, using the stern philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche as a guide.
Williams added that “he was solicitous for the betterment of the coloured people” – being the founder of the Perseverance School, “one of the most important institutions of its kind in the country”.