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 […]
A Vancouver Island resort is pivoting to instead be a sanctuary for Ukrainian refugees. Brian and Sharon Holowaychuks bought the Grouse Nest, a resort in East Sooke on the southwest corner of Vancouver Island, last year. The picturesque property, with rocky shorelines, its own dock, and a little walled lagoon, is peak B.C. coast. They […]
“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% […]
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, […]