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Africa’s Female Philanthropists Are Emerging From the Sidelines
Gates, Bono, Buffett. For centuries, the face of global philanthropy has been distinctly white - and male. But that's changing. As Africa's economy continues to expand, albeit at a slower pace than in...
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Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates’ ‘Giving Pledge’
Airbnb's foes have accused the home-sharing platform of exacerbating the housing crisis, allowing illegal hotels to operate on its platform, and, most recently, enabling racial discrimination by its...
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17 More Billionaires Join Buffett and Gates’ Giving Pledge This Year
The Giving Pledge, a philanthropic initiative started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, added 17 new members this year, bringing the elite group’s membership to 154 signatories from 16...
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Here’s How You Can Score Lunch With Warren Buffett
A lunch date with Warren Buffett goes on sale on eBay ebay this Sunday. The annual charity auction, now in its 17th year, offers a chance to have a “power lunch” with the legendary investor known as...
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Why Bill Gates Thinks Raising Chickens Would Solve a Huge Problem
If Bill Gates lost $76 billion, which would make him close to penniless, what would he do? Raise chickens, that’s what. In a new blog post, the Microsoft msft co-founder and philanthropist writes that...
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5 Things You May Not Know About CVS (But Should)
CVS Health is well-known as a pharmacy business. But in recent years, it has moved to rebrand itself as a health care company, including expanding its MinuteClinic brand to over 1,100 locations and...
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How Billionaire Carlos Slim Is Helping Schoolchildren in Mexico
Mexican billionaire telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim launched a program on Wednesday to collect used smartphones and donate them to schools, in order to provide students free access to educational...
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The 20 Most Generous Companies of the Fortune 500
By surveying the top 150 companies in the Fortune 500 and collecting data from public documents filed with the IRS and SEC, The Chronicle of Philanthropy has published a list of the most charitable...
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The Top 20 Most Generous Companies Gave $3.5 Billion to Charity Last Year
Roy Castro never finished high school. But earlier this month, he gave the graduation speech for his class of 33 participants in 10,000 Small Businesses, an intensive entrepreneurship program funded by...
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Facebook Just Made It Easier to Ask Friends for Charitable Donations
Facebook fb continued its quest to be a hub of charitable giving on Thursday by letting individual users set up fundraisers for non-profit organizations the way they would set up a group or event on...
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Warren Buffett Gave Away Another $2.8 Billion to Charities
Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has donated another roughly $2.86 billion of his holdings in the company’s stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four...
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New Poll Shows Millennials Prefer Companies That Give to Charity
Millennials are more likely than Gen X’ers and Baby Boomers to say it matters if American businesses give back to society, according to a new poll conducted by Morning Consult for Fortune. The survey...
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Study Shows That Luxury Shoppers Are the Worst
Good Samaritanism has apparently fallen out of fashion. A recent study found that shoppers outside high-end retail stores are less likely to stop to help a stranger in need compared to people in places...
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Dives Into New Cause: Healing the Oceans
Since founding Salesforce in 1999, Marc Benioff has earned credibility as a serious philanthropist and, more recently, as a champion of gender equality and diversity. For example, the business software...
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Pledges $3 Billion to Fighting All Human Diseases
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said on Wednesday that it would invest $3 billion over the next decade to help cure and manage all...
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Dreamforce Spanned the Ridiculous to the Sublime to the Somewhat Scary
Last week’s Dreamforce, the annual traffic-clogging, product-hyping vision quest held by Salesforce in San Francisco, wasn’t big on news. The big reveal would have been an announcement of Salesforce’s...
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Meet Jordan Hewson: The Tech Entrepreneur Who’s No Longer Just ‘Bono’s Daughter’
You can describe Jordan Hewson in many ways — a social activist, a first-time tech entrepreneur, a 27-year-old living in Brooklyn, New York. But that's not what you'll find when you Google her....
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Is Giving $100 Million in Stock to Charity
Sheryl Sandberg is transferring $100 million of her Facebook stock holdings to a fund for charitable causes. According to her latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Facebook...
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Facebook Commits Millions to Help Silicon Valley’s Have-Nots
Facebook wants to be a better corporate citizen, which is why on Friday it announced a partnership with local community organizations near its headquarters in which it will initially commit $20 million...
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This Family Is Passing Down Their Charity to the Next Generation
In 2006, while closing a $230 million deal to sell his financial firm, AssetMark Investment Services, Ron Cordes realized just how little he and his wife, Marty, had discussed money with their...
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