Steve and Connie Ballmer have given away more than $8 billion during the past two decades, and founded the Ballmer Group in 2015. Now they’re changing who gets to decide where the next donations go. The couple’s economic-mobility philanthropy, Ballmer Group, is spinning its three regional offices into separate, independent nonprofits for their regional grantmaking.
Most American private schools still raise money the old-fashioned way—silent auctions, annual giving, and a yearly gala with mixed drinks and canapés. Crystal Springs Uplands School, a 569-student private day school located on the peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, still plans to throw a gala this year, but it isn’t the main draw
An 82-year-old bike rider who cycled 3,300 miles (5,300km) across Australia to raise money for charity has died a day after completing the challenge. Bob Montgomery’s death was “unexpected” but “peaceful”, his family said in a statement on social media, just a day after he had finished what he had dubbed “One Last Ride” from
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark vowed to give away his fortune to his passions: combatting disinformation, election security, cybersecurity, and… pigeons. And now OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have donated $5.5 million to a fundraiser to buy land slated for development near some very famous eagles’ nest. The birds in question are Jackie
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett stopped donating to Bill Gates’ charitable foundation weeks after the Microsoft co-founder detailed his ties to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett “irrevocably” committed in 2006 to donating shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, each year to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as it was then known “for my entire
In 2020, Jeff Bezos made what remains the largest individual philanthropic commitment to climate and nature ever: $10 billion, to be fully disbursed by 2030 through the Bezos Earth Fund. But five years in, the fund has deployed roughly $2.4 billion of that commitment, leaving about $7 billion to go out the door before the