Unlimited Tomorrow, a prosthetics company, is raising funds to send 100 3D-printed bionic limbs to Ukrainians injured in the Russian Invasion. Unlimited Tomorrow was founded in 2014 by Easton LaChappelle of Colorado, when he was 17. He’d been tinkering with robotics and 3D printing since he was 14. After talking to the parents of a […]
Bill Gates is donating $20 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this month, as the charitable foundation prepares to ramp up spending. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) was reportedly the second largest charitable foundation in the world, with an endowment of nearly $52 billion. On Wednesday, founder Bill Gates announced that […]
Marta Kauffman, creator of “Friends” has donated $4 million to apologize for the lack of diversity in her New York-based sit-com. “Friends,” which ran for 10 years and 236 episodes, was a very white show. The most prominent actor of color featured in the show was Aisha Taylor, who appeared in only nine episodes of […]
Shaq the basketball legend is donating $50 thousand to the family of Aaron Salter Jr., a hero who died in the Buffalo shooting in May. Shaquille O’Neal, 50, is one of the biggest men, and biggest hearts, in sports. Seven-foot-one and with an estimated net worth of $400 million, he likes to spread his money […]
Dolly Parton has donated $1 million towards research into pediatric infectious diseases and treatments at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Songwriter, entertainer, and philanthropist Dolly Parton has donated millions towards health care since the mid-1980s, including a large donation towards a cancer center, a million dollars for the critical early […]
Howard Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffet, has donated $2.7 million to provide transportation and medical supplies for Ukraine’s defense force. Howard Buffett, the second child of Warren Buffett, is an agricultural tycoon and a conservationist–as unlikely as that combination may seem–and a philanthropist. He founded the Howard G. Buffett Foundation in 1999 with a […]
Band Aid has donated £500,000 (627,827 USD) to the UN for Ethiopian refugees amid the Tigray War. The ongoing civil war in Ethiopia, between the Tigray Defense Forces, the Ethiopian National Defense Force, and the Ethiopian Federal Police has displaced millions of people since it began in November 2020. Massive human rights abuses including deliberately […]
Custom caskets are a grim gift for nineteen families in Uvalde, from one man and his family business. Trey Ganem was contacted by the Texas Funeral Director’s Association on Tuesday, only hours after the shooting of 21 victims – 19 children and 2 teachers – in Robb Elementary School. The association proposed the project – […]
Big Brothers Big Sisters gets a $122.6 million gift from Mackenzie Scott, in the organization’s largest donation in 118 years. In 1904, Ernest Kent Coulter, a court clerk in New York, watched many young boys without adult mentors come through the courts. Wanting to see what good caring adults could do for these youths, he […]
The Voyager Scholarship fund is a new joint venture by the Obamas and Airbnb founder Brian Chesky, built on Chesky’s $100M donation. “If we want this next generation of leaders to be able to do what they need to do, they have to meet each other. They have to know each other. They have to […]