The Giving Pledge
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| Formation | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable organization |
Founders | Bill Gates and Warren Buffett |
| Website | givingpledge.org |
The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage the wealthy people of the world to contribute their wealth to philanthropic causes.
Description
The organization's goal is to inspire the wealthy people of the world to give the majority of their net worth to philanthropy, either during their lifetime or upon their death. The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract.[1]
History
In June 2010, the Giving Pledge campaign was formally announced and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began recruiting members.[2] As of August 2010, the aggregate wealth of the first 40 pledgers was $125 billion.[3] As of April 2011, 69 billionaires had joined the campaign and given a pledge,[4] and by the following year,The Huffington Post reported that a total of 81 billionaires had committed.[5] As of 2012, signatories of the pledge included: Hasso Plattner,[6] David Rockefeller,[7] Azim Premji,[8] Richard Branson,[9] Elon Musk, Tim Cook,[10] Sara Blakely,[11] and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.[12] By June 2016, 154 individuals and/or couples were listed as pledgers.[13][14]
Pledges
$732 billion has been pledged by 139 individuals.[15] Below is a list of all pledges:
| Name | Net Worth (2016) |
| Bill and Melinda Gates | $77,300,000,000 |
| Warren Buffett | $66,700,000,000 |
| Larry Ellison | $49,300,000,000 |
| Michael Bloomberg | $37,200,000,000 |
| Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan | $35,700,000,000 |
| Carl Icahn | $21,300,000,000 |
| Azim Premji | $17,500,000,000 |
| Paul Allen | $17,400,000,000 |
| Ray Dalio and Barbara Dalio | $15,600,000,000 |
| James Simons and Marilyn Simons | $15,500,000,000 |
| Ronald Perelman | $14,500,000,000 |
| Vladimir Potanin | $13,500,000,000 |
| Elon Musk | $13,000,000,000 |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong and Michele B. Chan | $13,000,000,000 |
| Harold Simmons and Annette Simmons | $10,000,000,000 |
| Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna | $9,900,000,000 |
| Harold Hamm | $9,400,000,000 |
| George Kaiser | $9,300,000,000 |
| Hasso Plattner | $9,100,000,000 |
| Pierre Omidyar and Pam Omidyar | $7,900,000,000 |
| Charles F. Feeney | $7,500,000,000 |
| Eli Broad and Edythe Broad | $7,100,000,000 |
| John A. Sobrato and Susan Sobrato, and their son John Michael Sobrato | $6,700,000,000 |
| Gordon Moore and Betty Moore | $6,600,000,000 |
| Stephen M. Ross | $6,500,000,000 |
| Richard Kinder and Nancy Kinder | $6,200,000,000 |
| Hansjörg Wyss | $6,100,000,000 |
| David Green and Barbara Green | $5,600,000,000 |
| George Lucas and Mellody Hobson | $5,400,000,000 |
| Richard Branson and Joan Branson | $5,100,000,000 |
| Phillip Frost and Patricia Frost | $5,000,000,000 |
| John Sall and Ginger Sall | $4,500,000,000 |
| Jeff Skoll | $4,400,000,000 |
| Samuel Yin | $4,200,000,000 |
| John Doerr and Ann Doerr | $4,100,000,000 |
| Leon G. Cooperman and Toby Cooperman | $3,900,000,000 |
| Dan Gilbert and Jennifer Gilbert | $3,900,000,000 |
| Bernie Marcus and Billi Marcus | $3,800,000,000 |
| Walter Scott, Jr. | $3,800,000,000 |
| Lynn Schusterman | $3,500,000,000 |
| Gordon Gund and Llura Gund | $3,400,000,000 |
| Julian Robertson | $3,400,000,000 |
| David Rockefeller | $3,200,000,000 |
| Yuri Milner | $3,100,000,000 |
| Jorge M. Pérez and Darlene Perez | $3,100,000,000 |
| Ian Wood | $3,080,000,000 |
| John Paul DeJoria | $3,000,000,000 |
| Kenneth Langone and Elaine Langone | $3,000,000,000 |
| Jeff Greene and Mei Sze | $3,000,000,000 |
| Henry Samueli and Susan Samueli | $2,900,000,000 |
| Romesh Wadhwani and Kathleen Wadhwani | $2,800,000,000 |
| Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman | $2,800,000,000 |
| David M. Rubenstein | $2,800,000,000 |
| John Caudwell | $2,700,000,000 |
| Bill Ackman and Karen Ackman | $2,600,000,000 |
| Arthur Blank | $2,600,000,000 |
| Edgar M. Bronfman | $2,600,000,000 |
| John D. Arnold and Laura Arnold | $2,600,000,000 |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | $2,500,000,000 |
| Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg | $2,500,000,000 |
| Judith Faulkner | $2,500,000,000 |
| Barron Hilton | $2,500,000,000 |
| Michael Milken and Lori Milken | $2,500,000,000 |
| Joe Mansueto and Rika Mansueto | $2,400,000,000 |
| Sunny Varkey | $2,300,000,000 |
| Charles Bronfman | $2,300,000,000 |
| Thomas Secunda and Cindy Secunda | $2,300,000,000 |
| Bob Parsons | $2,200,000,000 |
| Ted Turner | $2,200,000,000 |
| Jonathan M. Nelson | $2,100,000,000 |
| Albert Lee Ueltschi | $2,100,000,000 |
| Nicolas Berggruen | $2,000,000,000 |
| Glenn Dubin and Eva Dubin | $2,000,000,000 |
| George P. Mitchell | $2,000,000,000 |
| Paul E. Singer | $1,920,000,000 |
| Mark Stevens and Mary Stevens | $1,910,000,000 |
| Elie Horn and Susy Horn | $1,900,000,000 |
| Craig McCaw and Susan McCaw | $1,840,000,000 |
| Ted Forstmann | $1,800,000,000 |
| Peter George Peterson | $1,770,000,000 |
| Charles Zegar and Merryl Snow | $1,760,000,000 |
| Dato Sri Tahir | $1,740,000,000 |
| Reed Hastings and Patty Quillin | $1,720,000,000 |
| Dave Goldberg and Sheryl Sandberg | $1,700,000,000 |
| Vicki Sant and Roger Sant | $1,700,000,000 |
| Vinod Khosla and Neeru Khosla | $1,690,000,000 |
| Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor | $1,610,000,000 |
| Sir Tom Hunter and Lady Marion Hunter | $1,600,000,000 |
| Red McCombs and Charline McCombs | $1,550,000,000 |
| Victor Pinchuk | $1,510,000,000 |
| Manoj Bhargava | $1,500,000,000 |
| Eric Lefkofsky and Liz Lefkofsky | $1,500,000,000 |
| Alfred E. Mann | $1,500,000,000 |
| Ann Gloag | $1,490,000,000 |
| Michael Baron Ashcroft | $1,480,000,000 |
| Andrew Forrest and Nicola Forrest | $1,460,000,000 |
| Patrice Motsepe and Precious Motsepe | $1,450,000,000 |
| Strive Masiyiwa and Tsitsi Masiyiwa | $1,400,000,000 |
| Joe Craft | $1,400,000,000 |
| Hamdi Ulukaya | $1,380,000,000 |
| Seth Klarman and Beth Klarman | $1,380,000,000 |
| Ted Stanley and Vada Stanley | $1,300,000,000 |
| Sidney Kimmel | $1,270,000,000 |
| Peter B. Lewis | $1,250,000,000 |
| Steve Case and Jean Case | $1,210,000,000 |
| Joyce Cummings and Bill Cummings | $1,200,000,000 |
| H. F. Lenfest and Marguerite Lenfest | $1,200,000,000 |
| Herb Sandler and Marion Sandler | $1,200,000,000 |
| Richard Marriott and Nancy Marriott | $1,200,000,000 |
| Irwin M. Jacobs and Joan Jacobs | $1,190,000,000 |
| Vincent Tan | $1,130,000,000 |
| Christopher Hohn | $1,100,000,000 |
| Jon Huntsman, Sr. and Karen Huntsman | $1,100,000,000 |
| John Morgridge and Tashia Morgridge | $1,090,000,000 |
| David Sainsbury | $1,080,000,000 |
| Dr Mo Ibrahim | $1,070,000,000 |
| Sara Blakely | $1,060,000,000 |
| Sanford Weill and Joan Weill | $1,060,000,000 |
| Sue Ann Arnall | $1,000,000,000 |
| T. Boone Pickens | $1,000,000,000 |
| Craig Silverstein and Mary Obelnicki | $1,000,000,000 |
| Margaret Adams and Sylvan Adams | $1,000,000,000 |
| Robert Kogod and Arlene Kogod | $1,000,000,000 |
| Denny Sanford | $900,000,000 |
| Tim Cook | $785,000,000 |
| Tad Taube | $650,000,000 |
| Brad Keywell and Kim Keywell | $600,000,000 |
| Steve Bing | $600,000,000 |
| Shelby White | $600,000,000 |
| Harold Grinspoon and Diane Troderman | $500,000,000 |
| Tom Monaghan | $500,000,000 |
| Arif Naqvi | $500,000,000 |
| Lorry I. Lokey | $300,000,000 |
| Duncan MacMillan and Nancy MacMillan | $300,000,000 |
| John W. Jay Jordan II | $290,000,000 |
| Edward W. Rose and Deedie Potter Rose | $285,000,000 |
| Paul Orfalea and Natalie Orfalea | $250,000,000 |
| Claire Tow and Leonard Tow | $250,000,000 |
| James E. Stowers and Virginia Stowers | $100,000,000 |
| Total | $731,860,000,000 |
See Also
- Altruism
- Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sharing
- Charitable organization
- Earning to give
- Effective altruism
- Random act of kindness
- Reciprocal altruism
- Room for more funding
- Venture philanthropy
- Volunteering
References
- ^ "Forty U.S. billionaires pledge to give half their money to charity". Xinhua News Agency. 4 August 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ^ Carol Loomis (16 June 2010). "The $600 billion challenge". Fortune. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ^ Blackburn, Bradley (4 August 2010). "The Giving Pledge: Billionaires Promise to Donate at Least Half Their Fortunes to Charity". ABC News. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ^ 10 More U.S. Families Commit to the Giving Pledge [1], retrieved October 25, 2011
- ^ "Warren Buffett, Bill Gates Giving Pledge Gets 12 More Billionaires To Commit Over Half Of Their Fortunes", Huffington Post, April 20 2012
- ^ "SAP Founder Plattner Joins Club of Billionaire Donors". Der Spiegel. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ "Wall Street Doners: David Rockefeller". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Azim Premji first Indian to sign up for Gates-Buffett charity", India Times, 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
- ^ Lazo, Alejandro (19 February 2013). "Richard Branson among non-U.S. billionaires joining Giving Pledge". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ "Apple CEO latest to sign The Giving Pledge". Dial2Donate. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ Forbes:"Spanx Mogul Sara Blakely Becomes First Female Billionaire To Join Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge" by Clare O'Connor Retrieved 7 May 2013
- ^ "Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Join Giving Pledge". Philanthropy News Digest. December 17, 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ The Giving Pledge :: Pledger Profiles Retrieved March 21, 2016
- ^ Lorenzetti, Laura (June 1, 2016). "17 More Billionaires Join Buffett and Gates' Giving Pledge This Year". Fortune. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
- ^ "The Giving Pledge List Reaches $365 Billion". Insatiable Fox. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ "The Giving Pledge List Reaches $365 Billion". Insatiable Fox. Retrieved 2016-04-23.