Originally, Bill and Melinda Gates had hoped to do more than encourage giving by the wealthy. They envisioned the Giving Pledge as a way to promote effective philanthropy that would help solve the ...

Remember the Giving Pledge? It sounds almost quaint today, but back in 2010, dozens of billionaires committed to giving at least half of their wealth to charity. Bill and Melinda Gates launched the ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband have become the newest billionaires to sign the Giving Pledge, a charity that encourages the ultra-rich to donate their wealth to philanthropic causes. In their ...

The first annual gathering of people who have committed to the Giving Pledge met last night and today at the Miraval Resort, a Tucson resort owned by one of the signers—Steve Case, a philanthropist ...

Most Giving Pledge dollars never reached the public, flowing instead to private foundations and donor-advised funds while billionaires grew richer, bought reputations for generosity, and handed back ...

In this undated photo provided by Susan Sheppard, Jon and Helaine Ayers pose for a picture. The Ayers announced that they signed the Giving Pledge on Dec. 14, 2021, and plan to give away more than ...

In June 2010, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett started what could be described as the world’s most ambitious fundraising drive. After promising to give away the vast majority of ...

More than a dozen of some of the world’s richest people have joined a pledge to donate a majority of their wealth to charitable causes, either during their lifetimes or in their wills.

In this undated photo provided by Susan Sheppard, Jon and Helaine Ayers pose for a picture. The Ayers announced that they signed the Giving Pledge on Dec. 14, 2021, and plan to give away more than ...

Houston police are seeking public assistance to identify a man who may have information about a shooting that injured a 7-year-old boy at an apartment complex on Northborough Drive. In this undated ...