-
- Up one level
- Inspiring progress: Gates Foundation at 25
Over the next 20 years, the Gates Foundation will commit around $200 billion to advancing health and equity. On May 8, 2025 board chair Bill Gates and CEO Mark Suzman joined partners from around the world at an event in New York City to discuss this announcement and the foundation’s future.
- An Essential Friendship: Buffett and Gates (72 min)
The Low Down, Columbia University, 2017. Earlier this year, Columbia hosted a conversation between two iconic public figures—billionaire investor Warren Buffett '51BUS and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. For that conversation, Buffett and Gates sat down with PBS and Bloomberg TV host Charlie Rose to discuss their friendship, philanthropy, business, innovation, and leadership. (An audio with a shorter segment of highlights is also available.)
- Bill and Melinda Gates - Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
Filmed March 2014 at TED2014
"In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates took a walk on the beach and made a big decision: to give their Microsoft wealth back to society. In conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as their marriage, their children, their failures and the satisfaction of giving most of their money away."
- Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
by Edgar Villanueva; Foreword by Bishop William J. Barber II. Paperback – August 17, 2021
- Edgar Villanueva, philanthropy and Native Americans/American Indians
- Chobani’s founder Ulukaya donates $700 million to refugees
Posted by Ergulen Toprak, May 29, 2015. The founder of Chobani, Hamdi Ulukaya, will donate most of his wealth, at least 700 million dollars, to help the Kurdish refugees as well as refugees from all around the world. With his statement on Thursday, Ulukaya announced that he is going to join the Giving Pledge, by building a new foundation called Tent. "I have always planned to give most of what I had. Growing up, I watched my mother give to those who needed and it came from the most amazing place in her heart," Ulukaya said. (Archived page courtesy of the
Internet Archive's WayBack Machine)
- Doctors Without Debt
P. Roy Vagelos ’54PS, ’90HON is changing the future of medical education in America.
- Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP)
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), a project of Tides, is a national network of changemakers who strive for excellence and equity in the practice of philanthropy.
- Giving USA 2014: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2013 - digest
Giving USA: Americans Gave $335.17 Billion to Charity in 2013; Total Approaches Pre-Recession Peak. (Archived page courtesy of the
Internet Archive's WayBack Machine)
- Harris Rosen
Hotel entrepreneur who has been a leader in philanthropy.
- How Top Philanthropists Wield Power Through Their Donations - review of David Callahan, The Givers
Paul Sullivan, NY Times, April 14, 2017. David Callahan, author of “The Givers: Money, Power and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age,” published this week by Knopf, sees both sides of the story, with a healthy dose of skepticism. His interest from the first pages is to examine “the power of philanthropists to shape America.”
- Inside Philanthropy, Wall Street Donors, Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio
NET WORTH: $15.2 billion
SOURCE OF WEALTH: Bridgewater Associates
FUNDING AREAS: Education, Health, Community Development, Environment (article is behind a paywall)
- Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
The world's first school dedicated solely to the study and teaching of philanthropy. Their PhilD is the world's first professional doctorate for philanthropic and nonprofit professionals.
- LSE announces The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship
The core aim of the Marshall Institute is to improve the impact and effectiveness of private contributions to the public good.
News release at https://web.archive.org/web/20160815185133/https://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2015/04/MarshallInstitute.aspx
- ProPublica - How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself Zuckerberg set up a limited liability company, which has reaped enormous benefits as public relations coup and will help minimize his tax bill. by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, Dec. 3, 2015
- Ray Dalio
May 20, 2016 In recent years, Ray Dalio’s prolific giving has seen him rise through the ranks to become one of the United State’s biggest philanthropists. Through the Dalio Foundation, the hedge fund billionaire has donated millions each year to causes as diverse as education, health and the environment. Forbes, March 30, 2015
- Ron Lieber - The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
Harper, 2015
- Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple
Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 4, 2003. "There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don’t know any of them."
- Teacher, basketball great Phil Ford team up on childhood obesity research center
"North Carolina basketball legend Phil Ford was looking for a cause for a foundation he wanted to set up when he thought about a kid he’d befriended at one of his basketball camps."
Chapel Hill Newspaper, June 22, 2014
By Jonathan M. Alexander, jalexander@newsobserver.com, June 20, 2014 (Archived page courtesy of the
Internet Archive's WayBack Machine)
- The moral calculations of a billionaire
Eli Saslow, Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2022
After the best year in history to be among the super-rich, one of America’s 745 billionaires wonders: ‘What’s enough? What’s the answer?’
- UNCF receives $25 million gift from Koch brothers
Earlier this month, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) announced a $25 million donation from businessmen and philanthropists Charles and David Koch. The gift drew a lot of attention ... and, mostly because the Kochs give heavily to conservative causes, sparked plenty of controversy. (Rick Hess, June 16, 2014)
- UnKoch My Campus
The vision of UnKoch My Campus is to preserve our democracy through protecting higher education from actors whose expressed intent is to place private interests over the common good.
- Warren Buffett gave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $30 billion in 2006; Bill and Warren discuss the latest update on that investment.(2 min)
- What Is the Role of White Leaders in Philanthropy in Dismantling White Supremacy?
Hosted by Edgar Villanueva, Principal - Decolonizing Wealth Project + Liberated Capital. Guests:
Nick Donohue, President & CEO, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation
John Palfrey, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Hilary Pennington, Executive Vice President of Programs, Ford Foundation
Vanessa Daniel, Executive Director of the Groundswell Fund
- When a $1,000 Gift Is Better Than $1 Million
Paul Sullivan, NY Times, Aug. 17, 2018
- Your College May Be Banking on Your Facebook Likes
Your College May Be Banking on Your Facebook Likes
By Natasha Singerjan, NY Times, Jan 24, 2015