Jack Dorsey attempt to entice new users, since the number of tweets per day had dropped to about 300 million in January 2016 compared to about 500 million in September 2013 and its peak of 661 million in August 2014. On November 22, 2016, Dorsey was briefly suspended from his own Twitter user account with 3.9 million followers. After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted the suspension was due to an "internal mistake". In February 2017, Dorsey and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers. Their match brought the total donation
Dorsey-Gray Literacy Foundation Participants write essays based on either one or two novels authored by the non-profit founder, Althea Dorsey Gray. The scholarship program is open to all high school seniors and college undergraduate and graduate students. An unspecified number of winners are chosen by a panel of judges consisting of current and retired teachers, criminal justice professionals, and graduate students. Dorsey-Gray Literacy Foundation The Dorsey-Gray Literacy Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c) organization based out of the Greater Washington, DC area founded in 2009. The foundation award scholarships every year to high school seniors and all college undergraduates/graduates. The mission of DGLF is