The Giving Pledge
i was really shocked and surprised also happy of this thing, billionaires are giving away a LOT of money and i mean it when i say a lot to help people.
and as i quote from Wikipedia:
1. Paul G. Allen (Co-founder of Microsoft, worth approx. $12.7b)
2. Laura and John Arnold (Former Enron trader, $4b)
3. Nicolas Berggruen (Founder of Berggruen Holdings, 2.2b)*
4. Michael R. Bloomberg (Financial services, $18b)
5. Eli and Edythe Broad (Founders of The Broad Foundations, $5.2b)
6. Warren Buffett (Investment, $45b)
7. Steve and Jean Case (Former CEO of AOL, $1.1b)*
8. Michele Chan and Patrick Soon-Shiong (CEO of Abraxis, $5.6b)
9. Lee and Toby Cooperman (Hedge funds, $1.5b)*
10. Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg (IAC/InterActiveCorp, $1.2b)
11. Ann and John Doerr (Venture capitalist, $1.55b)
12. Larry Ellison (Venture capitalist, $27b)
13. Ted Forstmann (CEO Oracle, $1.6b)*
14. Bill and Melinda Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft, $54b)
15. David and Barbara Green (Founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, $2.6b)*
16. Lyda Hill (Lyda Hill Foundation, unknown)*
17. Barron Hilton (Hilton hotels, $2.4b)
18. Jon and Karen Huntsman (Founder of Huntsman Corporation, $1.6b)
19. Carl Icahn (Leveraged buyouts, $11b)*
20. Joan and Irwin Jacobs (Founder Qualcomm, $1.1b)
21. George B. Kaiser (Oil, gas and banking, $9.4)
22. Sidney Kimmel (Founder Jones Apparel, $1.1b)*
23. Elaine and Ken Lagone (Investments, $1.1b)
24. Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest (Media entrepreneur, $800m)
25. Lorry I. Lokey (Founded Business Wire, unknown)
26. George Lucas (Film producer, $3.25b)
27. Duncan and Nancy MacMillan (Endowed Chair in Genetics, unknown)*
28. Alfred E. Mann (Medical devices, $1.2b)
29. Joe and Rika Mansueto (Joe and Rika Mansueto, $1.2b)*
30. Bernie and Billi Marcus (Co-founder Home Depot, $1.5b)
31. Michael and Lori Milken (Investments, $2.1b)*
32. George P. Mitchell (Founder Mitchell Energy, $2b)*
33. Thomas S. Monaghan (Founder Domino's Pizza, unknown)
34. Tashia and John Morgridge (Cisco, $1.3b)
35. Dustin Moskovitz (Co-founder Facebook, $1.6b)*
36. Pierre and Pam Omidyar (Founder eBay, $5.5b)
37. Bernard and Barbro Osher (Bernard Osher Foundation, unknown)
38. Ronald O. Perelman (Leveraged buyouts, $11b)
39. Peter G. Peterson (Blackstone Group, $2b)
40. T. Bonne Pickens (Oil and gas investments, $1.4b)
41. Julian H. Robertson Jnr. (Hedge funds, $2.2b)
42. David Rockefeller (Standard oil, banking, $2.4b)
43. David M. Rubenstein (Leveraged buyouts, $2b)
44. Herb and Marion Sandler (Golden West Financial Corporation, unknown)
45. Denny Sandford (CEO of United National Corp, $1b)*
46. Vicki amd Roger Sant (TV news presenter, unknown)
47. Walter Scott Jnr. (Construction and telecom, $1.9b)
48. Tom and Cindy Secunda (Bloomberg, $1b)*
49. Jim and Marilyn Simons (Hedge funds, $8.7b)
50. Jeff Skoll (First president of EBay, $4.2b)
51. Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor (Founder Farallon Capital Management, LLC, $1.2b)
52. Jim and Virginia Stowers (Founder of American Century Investments, unknown)
53. Ted Turner (Media mogul, $1.2b)
54. Sanford and Joan Weill (Former CEO of Citigroup, unknown)
55. Shelby White (Wife Leon Levy, £1b)
56. Charles Zegar and Merryl Snow Zegar (Co-founder of Bloomberg, unknown)*
57. Mark Zuckerberg (Co-founder Facebook, $6.9b)*
this is the official website www.givingpledge.org