A new group of wealthy donors, including the founders of Moderna and Canva, are promising away their fortunes by joining the ...

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 ...

The former chief executive of YouTube and the co-founder of Zerodha, India’s biggest discount stock-trading platform, have joined the ranks of extremely wealthy people promising to give most of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifteen years ago this week, 40 of America's richest families and individuals pledged to give away most of their wealth. In the years since, the Giving Pledge has lost steam even as billionaire wealth ...

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 ...

The Giving Pledge has brought on 11 new signatories in its latest effort to spur philanthropy of the ultra-wealthy. Billionaire Dropbox Inc. co-founder Drew Houston and Invisibly founder Jim McKelvey, ...

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.