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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.
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."
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]
Another loophole is that the pledge does not require denying donations from corporate executives. [1] [3] In addition, candidates can legally claim to not take corporate PAC money and still take money from trade associations that are funded by stockholders or administrative personnel of corporations.
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...
The non-profit has a total of zero full-time staff, just a board that includes Musk and two volunteers, and it “has failed in recent years to give away the bare minimum required by law” to ...
ActBlue, the leading Democratic online donation processor, reported that donors gave $46.7 million in small-dollar donations through the platform for the day by 9 p.m. Eastern.
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