Tougaloo College is receiving a $10 million donation, the largest it has ever received, from the CEO of Netflix. Reed Hastings, who has been the CEO of Netflix since he helped to found it in 1997, and his wife, film producer Patricia Quillin, contacted Tougaloo College in Mississippi on Monday to discuss the donation. Not […]
Elon Musk donated 5 million shares of Tesla discretely to an unnamed charity back in 2021, at the time worth over $5.7 billion. Neither Musk or Tesla made any announcement about the donation. A Securities and Exchange Commission Form 5 Filing (SEC filing) revealed the donation of 5,044,000 TSLA shares, which happened November last year. […]
A University Hospitals surgeon is donating $1 million to establish a fund to push advancements in cardiac surgery. Alan Markowitz, MD, and his wife, Cathy Pollard, RN, have pledged a commitment of $1 million in order to help establish the Alan Markowitz, MD and Cathy Pollard Cardiac Surgical Innovation Fund at University Hospitals in Cleveland, […]
Kendra Scott is donating $1 million to help expand Dell Children’s Medical Center and create a new event center. Kendra Scott began making jewelry in her home as a teenager. In her mid-20s in 2002, she founded Kendra Scott LLC with $500 in material and sold the jewelry she made door to door at boutiques […]
Rihanna is pledging $15 million to fight climate change and environmental inequity, through her Clara Lionel Foundation. The singer founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, naming it after her grandparents. Its first major tackle was Hurricane Sandy, when the CLF supported relief efforts by the Food Bank of NYC throughout New England. This latest […]
Black churches get a helping hand this week, in the form of a $20 million donation. The Preserving Black Churches Project, run by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, was started by the National Trust for Historical Preservation in 2017. It is, by the numbers, the largest ever attempt to preserve and restore sites […]
Moderna has donated 2.7 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico, to help fight the omicron surge. This week, Mexico passed 300,000 test-confirmed* deaths due to COVID-19, which accounts for over 7 percent of their entire population. (For comparison, the 864,000 deaths in the United States amount to 1.4 percent of the population. Less […]
Handmade wood canes help restore dignity to veterans, with the generosity of an Indiana couple. Joe Ferrell and his wife Sue have long family trees buried in soldiers’ cemeteries, including Sue’s son, Donald, who joined the army after 9/11 and died only a year after coming back from his final deployment. Donald, like many veterans, […]
The Anta billionaire clan in China is donating nearly $1.2 billion in stock shares to a community development foundation. The Anta billionaire clan is made up of the Ding family, four men who jointly control Anta Sports, one of the largest sportswear businesses in the world. Chairman Ding Shizong, his brother deputy chairman Ding Shijia […]
Toyota will be donating half a million dollars to help those impacted by the tornadoes that devastated parts of Kentucky over the weekend. A single massive stormfront passing through caused tornadoes in Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri. In Kentucky, 74 people are confirmed dead, and many more are still missing. The town of […]