October 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM EDT After the billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott ended up with about 4% of Amazon, she’s given away $19 billion over the past five years, with over $100 million to DEI causes in the past few months. After gaining 400 million Amazon shares following her 2019 divorce from the company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has now slashed her stake in the $2 trillion tech giant by nearly half. A regulatory filing with the SEC, filed

October 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM EDT "What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?" Musk responded, as Thiel recounted. "You know, it would be much worse to give it to Bill Gates." Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is urging the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, to opt out of the Giving Pledge—a promise by billionaires to give away the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. In recent transcripts and audio lectures given by Thiel to Reuters, Thiel recalled warning Musk that his wealth

IPS report criticized The Giving Pledge as “unfulfilled” and “unfulfillable."

Chun Lai is a recipient of the CIO Leadership Recognition. Before Chun assumed his current role as Chief Investment Officer of Rockefeller Foundation in 2019, he first joined as Investment Associate in 1996, then rose to Deputy CIO in 2010. As of March 2025, Chun has been at RF for 29 years. The New York fund, founded in 1913, is designed “to improve the well-being of humanity by focusing on food, power, and health, with a particular emphasis on tackling climate change and ensuring equitable access to resources and opportunities.”

The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Monday as he urged governments to reverse global health funding cuts.

News broke recently that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would sever ties with the shadowy consulting firm Arabella Advisors and its “nonprofit network closely associated with the Democratic Party.”

MacKenzie Scott has partnered with one of America's largest charitable organizations in an effort to allow more people to attend college.

In her 11 years at the helm, Catz turned Oracle into a cloud powerhouse from a database provider by fiercely competing for a share of the lucrative data center business with Microsoft and Alphabet, while helping drive its market capitalization to nearly a trillion dollars.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to Black students

The following are the key insights from Generous Living: Finding Contentment Through Giving by Ron Blue and Jodie Berndt: A Journey from Wealth to Generosity Transformation Through Faith: The author begins with a pivotal moment—accepting Jesus without the intent to change, only to be surprised by th

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KOLR) – Jane Pitt, a prominent philanthropist in Springfield, Missouri, has died at the age of 84, according to her family.

On Saturday, the five finalists of Miss Universe Canada gave a minute-long speech during a gala in Windsor, Ont. The contestants could talk about anything they wanted. So Lethbridge’s Jaime VandenBerg chose a heavy topic, albeit one that is close to her heart. She spoke about gender-based violence. It was part sobering reality and part motivational speech. “I used the time to talk about how every 11 minutes a woman dies due to gender-based violence, but we can be the generation of change,” says

What if you had a brilliant idea to change the world—but no idea how to turn it into a legitimate nonprofit? What if the biggest hurdle wasn’t inspiration, but infrastructure? For the last decade, executive director Craig Cichy and the team at Social Impact Fund have been quietly helping changemakers solve that problem.

A group of seven philanthropic organizations on Tuesday announced a $37 million commitment to fuel local public media amid the federal funding repeals for PBS and NPR, which has created financial challenges for smaller stations across the country under their network umbrella.

The Washington Research Foundation today announced Orin Levine as its new president and CEO, effective Oct. 6.

Between heightened security needs, rising costs of living and cuts to government social services funding, North American Jewish life now comes with a heftier price tag than in years past — for individuals and communal institutions alike. Will there always be enough philanthropists to foot the bill?

How Canada Wins: Martha Hart supports Calgarians through the Owen Hart Foundation with a scholarship program, a home ownership program and a partnership program.

The Coachella Valley businessman was a celebrated patron of the arts nicknamed "Mr. Palm Springs"

A leading figure in iconic SA brewery Coopers has died at 88, leaving behind a legacy of philanthropy and support for more than 100 charities.

I never imagined that William Booth, the great Victorian who founded the Salvation Army to bring hope to London’s destitute masses, had a wit to rival Oscar Wilde’s. But I laughed out loud when I read what he quipped when asked if the Salvation Army would ever accept “tainted” donations from dodgy rich people. “The only problem with tainted money,” he replied, “is t’aint enough of it.” No leader of a UK charity or arts institution would dare say that out loud today, though I know a few who might

The U.S.’s 1,135 billionaires are sitting on a collective $5.7 trillion, but few are giving back through philanthropy: They've only pledged or donated 3% of that in the last decade.

Has MrBeast found a solution to getting younger generations involved in giving?

Oracle’s founder is spending big around the U.K.‘s 900-year-old university campus and even bought a famous local pub

Private charitable foundations are big players in Canada's philanthropic landscape. Experts weigh in on the dos-and-don’ts of good governance.