Philanthropy Report - Legacy From The Heart

You could wait until retirement to give to charity, but making it part of your financial plan now could be far more beneficial for you and the causes you support.

Philanthropist Roger Sant, who filled the home with modern and contemporary works, will donate the funds to his family’s foundation

For the past 20 years, Christopher Harborne has lived in Thailand as a Thai citizen going by the name of Chakrit Sakunkrit. From his home in Bangkok, the billionaire entrepreneur oversees his sprawling business interests, which range from a Singapore-based aviation fuel company to a five-star spa resort on the island of Koh Samui. And yet, politically speaking, Harborne’s interests reside very much in Britain, the country of his birth. Since 2019, he has declared almost £25 million in donations

The former New York City mayor, a longtime backer of historically Black colleges and universities, has a new initiative to support young Black students.

These gifts are a “major source of encouragement” during uncertain times for higher education.

From The Giving Pledge to Co-Impact, Olivia Leland’s mission has remained constant: to make giving not just generous, but transformative

Why I’m selling a $20 million Rembrandt and giving the proceeds to charity EXC: Billionaire art collector Thomas S. Kaplan on selling an Old Master drawing to raise funds for a wildlife charity – and why he plans to fractionalise his Rembrandt collection

Sir Alec Reed, businessman and philanthropist, dies aged 91 Sir Alec Reed CBE, founder of Reed, has died aged 91. He built the UK’s largest family-run recruitment business and established multiple charities including Big Give

Lauren Sanchez and her billionaire husband Jeff Bezos have made a huge donation to 32 nonprofits across the US that are working to end homelessness

Billionaire couple Laura and John Arnold were so charitable that they got kicked off Forbes 400 highest earners list.

For the nation's ultra-high-net-worth individuals, giving a little — relatively speaking — can add up to a lot. Through the end of last year, according to analysis by Forbes, the top 25 philanthropists in the United States had given away a total of $241 billion. Their collective net worth stood at about $1.6 trillion, giving this group of philanthropists a lifetime giving rate of about 15%.

Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna founded Open Philanthropy to identify charities that would create the biggest impact per dollar. Now, they’re changing its name and encouraging others to join.

Your reasons for giving should guide the who, what, where, when, and how of your philanthropy

The gift will go towards early cancer detection research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in downtown Toronto

When most people think of a philanthropist, they think of an older, wealthy white man, giving away his accumulated wealth at the end of his life. We think of men like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford and Gates.

Altman says he wants to focus his philanthropic giving on ‘technology that helps create abundance for people’

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff quickly retracted a controversial call to deploy the National Guard in San Francisco. Some city leaders aren’t ready to move on.

Following her 2019 divorce from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott has donated billions to more than 2,000 organizations

A war is being waged by the wealthy. Billionaires with millions of dollars to give are battling to see who can give away the most money, and there's evidence that it usually comes with strings attached.

Over the past decade, Open Philanthropy has been the rare philanthropic shop with both the resources and the rigor to make a dent in some of the world’s biggest problems.

A recent study of young Jewish philanthropists asked participants to select images that evoke how they feel living in a post-Oct. 7 world. There were AI-generated pictures of people walking alone through the darkness. Another with a person in a fetal position. Broken hearts. Broken windows.

Meta (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced they will be shifting the focus of their philanthropic efforts to AI in a blog post last week. "Ten years ago, we started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to help cure diseases, improve education, support our local community, and more," the couple wrote in the post. "We're proud of all this work, and especially what we believe has been our greatest impact: accelerating science and developing the Biohub network." "

The Washington, DC, that philanthropist and society queen Adrienne Arsht inhabits is one where glamour and whimsy reign—and where a dinner party can perhaps still bridge political divides.