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In many countries, asset disclosure is not legally required or made public. Only nonprofit foundations are included in this list. Organizations that are part of a larger company are excluded, such as holding companies. The entries are ordered by the size of the organization's financial endowment. [1]
Counting all degrees, Harvard University comes in first place in terms of the total number of billionaire alumni. The University of Pennsylvania comes in first if only bachelor's degrees are counted, according to the most recent 2022 Forbes report. [1]
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
You don't give away that much money without changing the places and institutions and people you give it to, sometimes for the worse. Zuckerberg should already know this. In 2010, he donated $100 million to the Newark Public Schools on a promise from Cory Booker that he could, according to Dale Russakoff's The Prize , "flip a whole city."
In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS Haym Salomon was named in his honor. The ship was launched on May 17, 1943. It was sold for private use in 1947 and scrapped in 1971. The Haym Salomon Nursing Home in Brooklyn, New York, is named in his honor. Haym Salomon Square is located Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York City.
The most generous among America's richest billionaires give away more than 10% of their fortunes. Some of them are doing their best to give away all of it — or at least as much as they can while...
That openness to working with the government marks another difference between Asian philanthropy and giving in, say, the U.S. In Asia, “people want to work aligned with, at the minimum, with the ...
Joe Blackman – dedicated much of his youth to helping young people start their own businesses; John Cena – Wrestler, actor, television personality, philanthropist under Make-A-Wish Foundation; John D. MacArthur – co-founder of the MacArthur Foundation