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  2. How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion - The ...

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    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."

  3. Philanthropy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Its head Frederick Gates envisioned "The Country School of To-Morrow," wherein "young and old will be taught in practicable ways how to make rural life beautiful, intelligent, fruitful, recreative, healthful, and joyous." [33] By 1934 the Board was making grants of $5.5 million a year. It spent nearly all its money by 1950 and closed in 1964. [34]

  4. Open Philanthropy - Wikipedia

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    Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook and later Asana, becoming a billionaire in the process. [1] He and Tuna, his wife, were inspired by Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save, and became the youngest couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, promising to give away most of their money.

  5. List of philanthropists - Wikipedia

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    The term may apply to any volunteer or to anyone who makes a donation, but the label is most often applied to those who donate large sums of money or who make a major impact through their volunteering, such as a trustee who manages a philanthropic organization or one who establishes and funds a foundation. [1]

  6. Why do they give? Donors speak about what moves them ... - AOL

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    Donors name relatives or friends who have survived or died from illnesses. They recount tearful conversations with their children. They point to their aspirations for how their communities and the ...

  7. GiveDirectly - Wikipedia

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    GiveDirectly collects donations from private donors as well as foundations. [20] In 2015, the organization received $25 million from Good Ventures, a private foundation started by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna. [21] In 2019, the organization won a grant of $2.1m from the Global Innovation Fund. [22]

  8. Sports At Any Cost - The Huffington Post

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    Appalachian State defeated Georgia State 37-3 in Atlanta on Oct. 10. The university has invested millions of dollars into football, with much of the money coming from student fees, but so far has little to show for it. Game attendance rarely exceeds 10,000 fans in a stadium that seats 80,000, and the team has lost most of its games.

  9. The Giving Pledge - Wikipedia

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    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.