Home Depot CEO pledges to donate nearly 90% of his fortune to charity
Seeing billionaires give away a big chunk of their wealth to charities is a rare phenomenon, but when it happens it is definitely a heartwarming and hope-giving one. Enter billionaire co-founder of Home Depot Bernie Marcus, who has recently pledged to give 80 to 90 percent of his estimated $4.5 Read More...
Leonardo DiCaprio co-founds new environmental initiative Earth Alliance
Leonardo DiCaprio has recently stepped up his climate activism game by partnering with billionaire investors and philanthropists to create a new non-profit with the main target of battling climate change. Called the Earth Alliance, the organization is essentially joining the resources of the Read More...
Pink Floyd frontman’s guitar auction nets $21 million for climate action group
As if former Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour wasn’t already enough of a legend, the guitarist has just donated $21 million to a climate action group after selling 126 of his guitars in a record-breaking auction in New York. One of those guitars included the iconic black Fender Stratocaster Read More...
Michael Bloomberg to spend $500M to close all coal-fired plants in America
While donations for the restoration of the Notre Dame cathedral approached tens of billions of dollars in just a couple of days, many have condemned the lack of similar major donations from the rich in response to the emergency of climate change. Cue former New York City mayor Michael Read More...
Must see: Billionaire stuns grads by promising to pay off their student loans
Student debt in America is no joke. As of now, there are more than 44 million borrowers who collectively owe a mind-boggling $1.5 trillion in student loan debt in the U.S. alone. Fortunately for the 396 college seniors that make up the graduating class of Morehouse College, they won’t have to Read More...
Marc Benioff just donated $30 million to research solutions for homelessness
Homelessness is a major problem across America, but hardly anywhere is it as shocking as in San Francisco. Despite having the most millionaires per square mile, the city also has thousands of homeless residents, most of which coming from San Francisco originally and having a job before winding up Read More...
This Swiss entrepreneur just donated $1 billion towards conservation efforts
Billionaires around the world sit atop mass amounts of money that could go a long way towards solving the world’s climate issues. Take Jeff Bezos, for example. If the head of Amazon donated just one percent of his total wealth towards climate solutions, which would amount to around $1.5 billion, Read More...
Markets with a social mission
After the meltdown on Wall Street, a small group of entrepreneurs is trying to make the market better, stronger and focused on the social good. Janet Paskin | May 2009 issue By now, doctors and developmental therapists know plenty about how to treat children with cerebral palsy. But all that Read More...