Interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark highlights large gift to counter harms of artificial intelligence, other philanthropic initiatives ~tech Article 16 votes
The rich have their own ethics: Effective altruism and the crypto crash ~humanities philosophy ethics Video 41:34, published Feb 24 2023 11 votes
Defective altruism - the repugnant philosophy of “Effective Altruism” offers nothing to movements for global justice ~humanities philosophy Article 8085 words 18 votes
Patagonia founder gives away the company to fight climate change ~enviro climate change Article 1098 words 26 votes
The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way? ~humanities philosophy Article 10 670 words 11 votes
The esoteric social movement behind this cycle’s most expensive House race ~misc politics Article 3840 words, published May 12 2022 12 votes
MacKenzie Scott donates a record $275 million to Planned Parenthood ~health Article 424 words 9 votes
Utah billionaire leaves Mormon church, donates $600,000 to LGBTQ group ~lgbt Article 813 words, published Dec 22 2021 13 votes
MacKenzie Scott’s $5.8 billion commitment to social and economic justice is a model for other donors ~finance Article 837 words 7 votes
John Waters bequeaths his art collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, whose bathrooms will be named in his honor ~arts photography Article 777 words 13 votes
It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers, has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now - and he couldn’t be happier ~finance Article 1403 words 12 votes
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion for COVID-19 relief worldwide ~health Article 233 words 13 votes
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to address climate change ~enviro climate change Article 289 words 26 votes
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful? ~finance Article 6563 words 10 votes
Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news ~tech Article 3335 words 11 votes
How Teach for America evolved into an arm of the charter school movement ~humanities education Article 5421 words 6 votes
"He was to Seattle what Carnegie was to Pittsburgh" - the mark Paul Allen's philanthropy left on Seattle ~life Article 6 votes
The business of voluntourism: Do western do-gooders actually do harm? ~life work Article 5309 words, published Sep 13 2018 13 votes
$12 million gift opens new chapter for New York Public Library’s treasures ~books libraries Article 54 words, published Sep 12 2018 5 votes
Gospels of giving for the new gilded age: Are today’s donor classes solving problems—or creating new ones? ~misc politics Article 3164 words 8 votes
Big piece of pie: Domino's founder donates $3.5M to Winnipeg Children's Hospital ~finance Article 218 words 5 votes
The 'black hole' that sucks up Silicon Valley's money - A fast-growing type of charitable account gets big tax breaks but little oversight ~tech Article 3252 words 3 votes