Philanthropy Report - Legacy From The Heart

As the initiative she co-founded celebrates its 10-year anniversary, Chan is pursuing a wildly ambitious goal: unlocking the hidden causes of disease.

The founder of The Justin Poy Agency discusses connecting with his community and why supporting entrepreneurs of colour is good business.

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.

The University of Washington received $10 million from billionaires Charles and Lisa Simonyi to launch an initiative supporting responsible AI in the classroom.

MacKenzie Scott continues her philanthropic run by donating millions to more Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Previously married to Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos for over 25 years, the former couple finalized their divorce in 2019.

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Jeffrey Skoll was eBay's very first employee, the man who helped turn a quirky online auction site into one of the biggest success stories of the dot-com boom. He became a multi-billionaire practically overnight... then decided to give it all away.

November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM EDT Warren Buffett says his longevity has led to “unavoidable consequences” for his charitable objectives. Warren Buffett—long known as one of the world’s most successful investors and committed philanthropists—is rethinking how his fortune will be spent. Though he no longer holds the title of world’s richest man, Buffett’s net worth sits around $150 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. And at 95, he’s acknowledging that some of his earlier ambitions

The framework governing charitable foundations ‘isn’t evolving fast enough to respond to Canada’s social needs’

The executive chair of AGF talks about growing up in an entrepreneurial family, learning through challenges, and why he gives back.

A millionaire pop star wants rich people to give their money away.

CEO of Imagine Canada Bruce MacDonald talks about trends in philanthropy and how giving is being passed along to the next generation.

Two historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland got a total of $63 million this month from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who gave $60 million to Morgan State University and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, in 2020.

More women are controlling more wealth, but we don’t know much about who is giving or why

MacKenzie Scott was married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for 25 years before their divorce in 2019. Scott received a 4% stake in Amazon after the divorce and has channeled much of that wealth toward charity. On Tuesday, Scott reduced her stake in Amazon by 42%, which is worth nearly $13 billion.

She has donated over $19 billion to more than 2,450 nonprofits through her foundation. October 16, 2025 MacKenzie Scott, billionaire philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has significantly reduced her Amazon holdings over the past year. Regulatory filings show that Scott slashed her stake by 42 percent, selling or gifting roughly 58 million shares valued at about $12.6 billion. You may also like Despite this, she still retains 81.1 million shares, according to Bloomberg’s

October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM EDT Rich and Nancy Kinder have pledged to give away 95% of their $11 billion fortune. The billionaire club is an exclusive one: There are only about 900 billionaires in the U.S., according to CNBC. But an even more distinct group is the billionaires who give away a high percentage of their wealth. That includes investor and philanthropist George Soros (an estimated 76% of his wealth has been donated), novelist and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos MacKenzie Scott

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.