Ken Griffin won two seats on a Blue Origin spaceflight, and donated them both to New York City teachers. Ken Griffin is the founder and CEO of multinational hedge fund company Citadel. At 53, he’s worth an estimated $19 billion, making him the 45th richest person in the United States. On Monday, he placed the […]
John Doerr, Silicon Valley billionaire, has donated $1.1 billion to Stanford University to establish a new school. John Doerr, 70, is an investor and venture capitalist from Missouri. He was on the ground floor of Intel Corporation through the 70s, and then went into venture capital funding. His focus on tech companies meant that he […]
Meijer is donating $1 million to the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) to help clean up beaches and waterways in the northern Midwest. Meijer is the largest grocery chain in the American Midwest, headquartered in Walker, Michigan and with over 250 stores in six states. The company, which was founded in 1934, is […]
Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, is donating $24 million for a fellowship at Harvard Business School. Kraft and his son, Jonathan Kraft, both graduated from the business school in 1965 and ’90, respectively. Both men credit the school with a fair slice of their success in life, and together they made the […]
Bismack Biyombo is donating $1.3 million of his NBA salary to build a hospital in the Congo to honor his late father. Bismack Biyombo was born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), discovered as a basketball player in Yemen, recruited to play in Spain, and came to the United States to play in […]
“Stand Up for Ukraine” will raise funds to help the estimated 10 million Ukrainians already displaced by the Russian war being waged on their streets, so that those funds don’t have to come from the money already earmarked to help other refugee populations. In Mariupol alone an estimated 90 percent of homes have been destroyed. […]
Fortnite is raising money for Ukraine, with over $50 million raised so so far. On March 19, video game company Epic announced that all proceeds from Fortnite for the next two weeks would go to humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Fortnite, which was a breakaway popular video game released in 2017 that continues to see massive […]
Square Enix is donating half a million dollars towards humanitarian aid efforts in wartorn Ukraine. On Tuesday, the video game company posted on Twitter that: “Square Enix Group today announced the donation of $500,000 to The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in order to provide humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people […]
Ferrari is donating one million Euro for humanitarian aid in Ukraine, according to their statement on Tuesday. “The funds will be channeled through the Emilia-Romagna Region that, in collaboration with the Red Cross and UNHCR, will fund international humanitarian projects supporting Ukraine as well as local initiatives focusing on the reception of refugees in the […]
Steve Ballmer, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and former CEO of Microsoft, is donating $425 million for children’s behavioral health. Ballmer is the estimated 9th-richest person in the word, with a personal net worth somewhere around $111 billion. He joined Microsoft when it was merely a startup in 1980, and by 1981 owned 8% […]