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 […]
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, […]
Damar Hamlin has to figure out what to do with $8.6 million raised by his small charitable toy drive after his cardiac arrest on the field last week. Damar Hamlin, 24, of the Buffalo Bills had just tackled Bengals receiver Tee Higgins when he took two steps and collapsed, going into cardiac arrest. Medics on […]
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 […]
Kate Winslet has donated £17,000 ($20,750 USD) to a woman who can’t afford the electricity needed to run her daughter’s life support equipment. Carolynne Hunter’s 12-year-old daughter Freya has profound cerebral palsy, dependent on an oxygen concentrater and several other machines to stay alive and comfortable. Carolynne was warned earlier this month by the Clackmannanshire […]
Simu Liu donates $100,000 to Feeding America in memory of his own childhood, matching the donation from retailer BoxLunch. Simu Liu, star of the Marvel superhero fantasy “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and the Canadian sitcom “Kim’s Convenience,” says that his family grew up “the definition of poor.” A child immigrant from […]
An Arizona woman is suing her hometown over being arrested for giving food to the local homeless. Norma Thornton, 78, is a resident of Bullhead City, Arizona, the largest city in Movahe County, on the Colorado River. With a population of over 41,000 people, the median income is only $37,000 and more than 14% of […]
VisionSpring gets $15 million donation from MacKenzie Scott to help low-income workers around the world access eyecare. VisionSpring was founded in 2001, “with the goal of reaching and providing affordable, quality glasses to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who need them,” according to their website. According to founder Dr. Jordan Kassalow, he was inspired by […]
The Girl Scouts are getting almost $85 million in a donation from MacKenzie Scott, their largest ever donation from an individual. The Girl Scouts of the USA have been in a downturn since the pandemic, according to Sofia Chang, the organization’s current CEO. Membership has suffered almost 30 percent since 2020, which had a serious […]
Cardi B surprised staff and students at her old middle school in the Bronx with a $100K donation, meant to expand tutoring and extracurricular options. Belcalis Marlenis Amanzar, better known as the singer/songwriter Cardi B, was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx. As a teenager, she dealt with gangs and […]