January 23, 2026, 12:31 PM ET Bill Gates’ foundation will shutter in 2045. Conventional wisdom tells us all good things must come to an end. And that’s what the Gates Foundation is preparing for. Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates told Fortune first about their plans to shutter their $86 billion charitable foundation in 2045. (French Gates is no longer part of the foundation, having stepped down in 2024 from her role following the couple’s divorce. She now runs her own foundation, Pivotal

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February 1, 2026, 6:02 AM ET The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is going all in on AI. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is making big changes, and it started 2026 with some job cuts to recalibrate and refocus its efforts on AI-powered biomedical research. The philanthropic organization, formed by Meta cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, is cutting about 70 jobs, or roughly 8% of its workforce, a CZI spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. The layoffs happened primarily at

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is laying off about 70 employees in Redwood City as the philanthropy founded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan restructures to focus more narrowly on artificial intelligence-driven biomedical research.

January 27, 2026, 1:36 PM ET Philanthropist Howard Buffett says that addressing economic opportunity is not enough to solve poverty alone. Howard Buffett, the 71-year-old son of Warren Buffett, the 95-year-old “Oracle of Omaha” himself, has a new message for philanthropists: You can’t fight poverty without proper rule of law. In a conversation with CNBC earlier this month alongside his two siblings—Susan and Peter—Buffett spoke candidly about wisdom he had heard from Gary Haugen, CEO of

Curt Garland, a Prince George truck driver who built a local truck transport empire while giving back to the community where he was born and raised, died Nov. 21, 2025 at 88.

Sanford 'Sandy' I Weill and his wife, Joan, contributed a whopping $120 million to a veterinarian school after it helped treat their beloved dog, Angel, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2018.

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The former Berkshire Hathaway CEO’s three children probably will become the most influential philanthropists in the world after their father dies.

Cornell’s engineering school will be named after Duffield in recognition.

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The American Red Cross declared a severe emergency blood shortage on Monday, calling on people to donate.

Written on March 17, 1911, Rockefeller's thirteenth letter addresses one of the most socially sensitive topics in his era and ours: the ethics and economics of charity and dependency. In a period when Gilded Age philanthropy was celebrated in some quarters and condemned in others as inadequate respo

Throughout Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, God reveals His heart for the poor, the marginalized, and the vulnerable. The Bible's teaching on giving to the poor is not merely a suggestion or an optional act of charity—it is woven into the very fabric of God's law, His character, and His expect

Warren Buffett’s three children sit down with Becky Quick to talk about the monumental task their father has given them: to one day give away his $150 billion dollar fortune. Susan A. Buffett, Howard G. Buffett and Peter Buffett talk about their own foundations, working together and growing up Buffett.

January 13, 2026, 11:53 AM ET Tench and Simone Coxe are donating $100 million to the University of Texas in their adopted hometown Austin. Courtesy of the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical Center Billionaire Nvidia board member Tench Coxe and his wife Simone are donating $100 million to the University of Texas Medical Center in Austin. The donation, one of the largest gifts in the university’s history, was driven by the couple’s personal history and values aligning with the university’s

In a rare interview, the three Buffett heirs said their world view, priorities and approach to philanthropy began in the Buffett household.

Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, paid out $7.88 billion (£5.9 billion) to his ex-wife Melinda French Gates’s private foundation, according to tax filings. Gates, 70, made the payment in 2024 — believed to be one of the biggest charitable donations in history — as part of their $76 billion divorce settlement, The New York Times reported. The couple, who have two daughters and a son together, divorced in 2021 after a 27-year marriage, partly over Gates’s connection to the

The Bible teaches that giving is fundamentally a matter of the heart, not just the hands. Throughout Scripture, God establishes that how we give matters infinitely more than how much we give.

The Scriptures present giving not as an isolated moral virtue but as a comprehensive diagnostic framework through which the authenticity of Christian profession is evaluated. These tests penetrate beyond surface-level religiosity to expose the deepest commitments of the human heart, revealing whethe

MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, funneled millions of dollars to a left-wing nonprofit network that supports the nation's most virulent anti-Israel and anti-Semitic organizations, including some that are under congressional investigation for their ties to terrorist groups, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Scott announced the grant in an essay that cites Hopi prophecy, bird flocks, and sex as inspirations for her latest round of giving. Scott recently disclosed

NEW HAVEN — Hopkins School announced Monday the largest gift in its 365-year history will fund a new academic center focused on student research, technology and interdisciplinary learning.

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