Urban Logic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, organized in New York and qualified in California, that blends innovation redesign, finance, technology and systems thinking for people, businesses, communities, countries and industries to finance what matters where.
Urban Logic, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) New York nonprofit, qualified in California.
Public contributions are appreciated, and tax-deductible as permitted by law.
Our current and historical IRS Form 990 and other reports are available at www.Guidestar.org
Feel free to contact Bruce Cahan at: bcahan@urbanlogic.org, with your comments, ideas and synergies.
Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 1281
Palo Alto CA 94302-1281.
To save on paper and shrink our carbon footprint, we prefer email
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Bruce Cahan is CEO and co-founder of Urban Logic, a nonprofit that harnesses finance and technology to change how systems think, act and feel. He is an Ashoka Fellow, aa Lecturer at Stanford University's Department of Management Science & Engineering, a Distinguished Scholar at Stanford mediaX and a former CodeX Fellow at Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics. Bruce was trained as an international finance lawyer at Weil Gotshal & Manges in NYC (10 years) and as merchant banker at Asian Oceanic in Hong Kong (2 years). Bruce graduated The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics 1976) and Temple Law School (J.D. 1979). Bruce has been licensed to practice law in California (2006), New York (1980) and Pennsylvania (1980).
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