Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in the form of a scholarship grant to help 1,000 undocumented immigrant high school graduates with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status attend college. The Bezos gra…
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Jeff Bezos is donating $33 million to help undocumented immigrants
Jeff Bezos is donating $33 million to a scholarship fund for “dreamers,” immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
That’s right: Amazon’s famously un-philanthropi…
Girls Who Code gets a Disney Imagineering boost
The room is a raw warehouse space that is partitioned off with curtains, hiding the bulk of it from view. I’m at the back of a group of girls who is nervously dropping its phones into a plastic box for safekeeping, to be returned on exit. The reason for the curtains, and the no phone policy, is that we are about to be some of the first people outside of the Disney Imagineering group to… Read More
Never participated in Giving Tuesday before? 5 reasons why 2017 is your year.
After the frenzy of Black Friday and the deal-bingeing of Cyber Monday, the annual event known as Giving Tuesday is a day-long opportunity to put your dollars not toward a new gadget or gift, but toward a cause that’s near and dear to your heart.…
View More Never participated in Giving Tuesday before? 5 reasons why 2017 is your year.The Gates Foundation is matching $2M in donations on Facebook for #GivingTuesday
Today is #GivingTuesday, an global day of giving that always falls on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. This year Facebook is again partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to match up to $2M in donations to fundraisers held on Facebook by nonprofits. Additionally, Facebook is waiving its typical 5% fee on donations to U.S-based nonprofits all day long. It’s a big step… Read More
Amazon’s all-new Echo goes (RED) for a limited time
The new Echo is a better looking device than its predecessor, thanks in large part to its various fabric coverings. Now, there’s a new option for the outer shell: A PRODUCT(RED) special limited edition. The fabric outer comes in red, appropriately enough, and $10 of the purchase price (of $99.99, same as any other Echo) will go toward (RED)’s work fighting AIDS through the Global Fund. Read More
Uber donates $1 million to Meals on Wheels
Uber has teamed up with Meals on Wheels America to help the organization fulfill its mission of providing healthy meals to homebound seniors, veterans and others. The two-year partnership entails a $1 million donation, which includes a direct con…
View More Uber donates $1 million to Meals on WheelsBill Gates pledges $100 million of his own fortune to fight Alzheimer’s
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Bill Gates just donated a piece of his fortune to advance the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.
The philanthropist and Microsoft founder announced in a blog post Monday that he will give $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, a public-private partnership that invests in innovative dementia research. Gates will also donate another $50 million in startups working in Alzheimer’s research.
Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has a long track record of supporting research to eradicate diseases like malaria and polio. But Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common form of dementia that progressively affects memory and other brain functions, is the first noncommunicable disease he’s fighting. Read more…
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Inside Summit Series, the invite-only getaway striving for altruism
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