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 […]
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 […]