Vitalik Buterin has donated $15 million in cryptocurrency to the University of California San Diego to fund research into airborne pathogens like COVID-19. The Balvi Filanthropic Fund is the actual source of the donation, but it is directed entirely by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. It was founded in 2022 to handle another of Buterin’s donations, […]
Bill Ackman, billionaire hedge fund manager, is donating $3.25 million to help buy over a dozen badly-needed ambulances for Ukraine. The news was broken by Whitney Tilson, an investor working for Ackman’s charity, Pershing Square Foundation. Tilson has been leading an effort for months to buy ambulances for aid organizations operating in Ukraine. “I had […]
The estate of David Bowie, rock legend, has donated over 80,000 pieces of his personal collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum for public display. David Bowie, who passed away in 2016, collected material related to his career and creative process all his adult life. From the significant to the mundane, he appears to have […]
A Pakistani businessman from the US walked into the Turkish Embassy in Washington on Saturday and arranged to donate $30 million to victims of the earthquake that devastated the country only a few days before. NATO officials have describe the quake as “the deadliest natural disaster on alliance territory since the foundation of NATO.” “Deeply […]
Good charity or bad? A few tips for how to evaluate before you donate so your money goes to help the people you intend to help. It’s easy to see the label ‘nonprofit’ and assume that means an organization is providing a public benefit. But many don’t live up to the values and mission they […]
Subway cofounder Peter Buck donated 50% of the sandwich chain to charity in his will, according to his family. Peter Buck was a nuclear physicist working for United Nuclear when he put up $1000 in 1965 for his friend Fred DeLuca to open a sandwich shop. “Pete’s Super Submarines” became “Pete’s Subway,” and by 1973, […]
AmazonSmile is being cut as the company tightens its belt despite record profits, ending the company’s charitable obligations. Amazon launched their charitable program AmazonSmile in 2013, allowing customers to designate a charity to donate a percentage of all their purchases to. According to the company, they’ve donated approximately $500 million through the program in nearly […]
Shakhtar Donetsk is donating $25 million to a charity for Ukrainian families along with the transfer of player Mykhailo Mudryk to English team Chelsea. Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk is one of Ukraine’s two major football clubs. It’s had to move several times due to war, and currently cannot play due to the Russian invasion. Mudryk […]
A tech firm donated half a million dollars in Montgomery County, Maryland, to help homeless vets get off the streets. TISTA Science and Technology Corp is an information technologies professional group which serves the government, the armed forces, and the healthcare community. Its founder Ahmedur Ali is a navy veteran who was disabled in the […]
Survivor Winner Mike Gabler is donating his whole million dollar prize to veterans. Mike Gabler won the 43rd season of the hit reality show Survivor on Wednesday night. Moments after his win he showed his real quality, announcing that the million dollar prize, every penny of it, would be donated to help veterans in need […]