¶ The Giving Pledge
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The Giving Pledge is a philanthropic campaign to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
¶ History
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett launched The Giving Pledge campaign in June 2010.[1]
Sam Bankman-Fried signed the pledge in June 2022.[2] His name was removed from the list in December 2022 following his arrest.[3]
¶ Signatories
Notable individuals who have signed The Giving Pledge include:[4]
- Paul Allen
- Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz AlSaud
- John Arnold
- Laura Arnold
- Michael Ashcroft
- Sam Bankman-Fried (removed)[3:1]
- Lynne Benioff
- Marc Benioff
- Michael Bloomberg
- Edythe Broad
- Eli Broad
- Charles Bronfman
- Edgar Bronfman
- Warren Buffett
- Jean Case
- Steve Case
- Priscilla Chan
- Ron Conway
- Ray Dalio
- Ben Delo
- John Doerr
- Larry Ellison
- Judy Faulkner
- Bill Gates
- Melinda Gates
- David Green
- Reed Hastings
- Mark Heising
- Barron Hilton
- Reid Hoffman
- Mo Ibrahim
- Carl Icahn
- George Kaiser
- Sidney Kimmel
- George Lucas
- Alfred Mann
- Bernard Marcus
- Billi Marcus
- Nancy Peery Marriott
- Yuri Milner
- Tom Monaghan
- Betty Moore
- Gordon Moore
- Dustin Moskovitz
- Elon Musk
- Pamela Omidyar
- Pierre Omidyar
- Jim Pattison
- Peter G. Peterson
- Victor Pinchuk[5]
- Mark Pincus
- Azim Premji
- Julian Robertson
- David Rockefeller
- Jeff Rothschild
- Marieke Rothschild
- David Rubenstein
- David Sainsbury
- Henry Samueli
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Stephen Schwarzman
- MacKenzie Scott
- Walter Scott Jr.
- Craig Silverstein
- Liz Simons
- Jeffrey Skoll
- Tom Steyer
- Cari Tuna
- Ted Turner
- Joan Weill
- Sanford Weill
- Anne Wojcicki
- Susan Wojcicki
- Hansjörg Wyss
- Tony Xu
- Mark Zuckerberg
¶ External links
Loomis, C. J. (2010, June 16). The $600 billion challenge. Fortune. http://archive.today/2020.09.23-020913/https://fortune.com/2010/06/16/the-600-billion-challenge/?iid=sr-link1 ↩︎
Wang, T. (2022, June 1). FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Signs Billionaires’ Giving Pledge. CoinDesk. https://web.archive.org/web/20230805174425/https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/01/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-signs-billionaires-giving-pledge/ ↩︎
Alexander, S. (2022, December 14). Sam Bankman-Fried Cut From Giving Pledge Website After Arrest. Bloomberg. http://archive.today/2022.12.14-233146/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-14/sam-bankman-fried-cut-from-giving-pledge-website-after-arrest ↩︎ ↩︎
Pledger List. The Giving Pledge. Retrieved August 5, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230805175831/https://givingpledge.org/pledgerlist ↩︎
Victor Pinchuk. (2013, February 14). The Giving Pledge. http://archive.today/2023.10.27-171709/https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=266 ↩︎