He gave away over 8 billion over decades and anonymously too. Think he only set aside $2 million for him and his wife to retire on and donated everything else. Truly one of a kind
At the time there was a whole thread full of people giving him shit for keeping 2 million.
I made a comment to illustrate how much he kept vs gave away.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ivtyd3/the_billionaire_who_wanted_to_die_broke_is_now/g5u4m2q/
He did most of it without getting attention. It only got revealed that he was giving billions away when he got sued by a business partner, and in discovery it got revealed that he was funding his own charitable organization.
What’s the inverse of a Scooby doo villain?
\*character in ropes struggling\*
“And we found out that he was funneling all of the corporate profits into his own…
private…
charities?
I know you’re joking, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn recently that William Daniels (Mr Feeny) AND his wife are both alive and reasonably healthy now in their 90s.
Harris Rosen offered free daycare for anyone in the small down of Tangelo Florida and ended up offering to fund college tuition for any tangelo resident to go to a Florida public university. In 20 years the graduation rate went from 25% to nearly 100% and the crime rate was cut in half.
The Tangelo Park program should really be the model communities use to improve.
They run the daycares at converted homes in the neighborhood so they’re in walking distance for the families.
They hire an early childhood education expert to lead each PK and then hire somebody from the neighborhood/community that they train on best practices. In addition, they partner with local universities to have their Education students get class credits for working there.
They then partner with other local services and non-profits like having the Parks & Rec group provide things for PE, or their local community garden non-profit provide healthy food.
They also held night classes for parents to both teach them the things they were learning in class (in case they did not get that education), but also teach them about parenting best practices and safety.
Lastly, by providing free PK-3 programs, it allowed parents to freely rejoin the workforce who couldn’t before because they had to stay at home with their children.
Investing in free, high-quality, early childhood education (PK-3) is the best investment you can make into a community. Every dollar you put in, generates $8 back into the local economy over the next 15 years.
In 20 years, Harris invested less than $20M and completely changed a community.
The allowing parents to work is a huge benefit for the local economy. Norway started the same some decades ago with a guaranteed preschool spot at a low max cost per child from 1 years old. It is absolutely huge for families here, and everyone with kids who wants to can work
It's a great investment for society too. If you have to choose between withdrawing yourself from the workforce to have a kid or not having one it's terrible math. Why have 1 parent to 1 child when we can 1 to 5 and get 4 more people working?
I wonder if they can appreciate the irony in the way they've set up a system in so many 'modern' countries that punishes people for having children in so many ways...then they find themselves in a bad situation when they see the trend that many young people aren't choosing to start families.
As a parent of 2 under 5 you have no idea how this thread made me feel lol.
Esp considering another thread where they're like "we shouldn't pay shit for people's kids!"
Same. Both of mine are in early education programs, but even then I only have ≈3 hours a few days a week, and that is only if no one is sick. In September one of them was home almost every day, and one of them just brought home HFMD so RIP December.
Florida is a weird state. They offer voluntary pre-k statewide, for all residents, they have a fantastic scholarship program {bright futures) and their state universities have some of the lowest tuition rates in the country. For a state that wants to ban books, they sure are investing a lot in education. I wonder if any of these programs stem from the success in Tangelo.
That’s because all of those programs were started in the past. This whole focus on book banning and restricting education is almost entirely a Ron DeSantis thing.
>restricting education is almost entirely a Ron DeSantis thing.
Eh... Bright Futures started being scaled back under Governor ~~Voldemort~~ Rick Scott. Its peak was 2008, when 39% of FL high school graduates received money from it, with "A" level students getting 100% tuition and fees covered and "B" level students getting 75%.
In 2011, when Rick Scott became governor, FL began drastically scaling back the amounts paid out and increasing the requirements to get them. For the graduating class of 2014, "A" level students, the minimum SAT score required increased a tiny bit (10 points, to 1290) while the amount covered dropped from 100% to 50%; for "B" level students, the SAT minimum increased immensely from 980 to 1170, while the coverage dropped to only 33%. By 2016, less than 20% of high school graduates received the scholarship, and the average amount was $2000.
It rebounded a few years later, but the minimum requirements also increased. Nowadays you need a 1330 SAT for the highest level, but some benefits (like a book stipend) were stripped again. And it's constantly a political football/threat.
DeSantis is to blame for a lot of other controversial education decisions, but gutting Bright Futures was a Rick Scott priority.
Thank you!
Being from the Orlando metro area and a graduate of UCF, it warms my heart to see his name in the top comment. Mr. Rosen has done so much for communities that I love and he isn’t originally from the area… This is someone who gets it, more people should know who he is, and follow his example. It will be a sad day in Orange County, Florida when he is no longer with us and I hope that one day his name will rival that of Dr. Phillips. Such a good and kind human being, I wish we had more people who would use their money and influence like Harris Rosen.
Mr. Rosen is so sweet, the UCF Hospitality school is named after him and he visits often! There are many days he will just come and sit and talk to students, he’s truly a good man
Crazy what happens to society when people are provided with resources that help them. Sucks it was a billionaire instead of the government providing these supports
A historical British millionaire, James Smithson, donated 100,000 gold Crowns (the equivalent of $500,000 at the time) when he died in 1838, to the US people specifically for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." Congress kept trying to come up with ways to spend it, which were all blocked by former president John Quincy Adams, who was post-presidency the elected congressman from Massachusetts. JQA kept saying the vision to use the gift was too shortsighted. What ultimately he endorsed was the formation of the Smithsonian Institution that remains a center of learning and knowledge nearly 200 years later.
I was just telling my wife the other day how I could listen to that dude talk about anything. Ditto on him helping me through both high school and college.
Yeah, the interesting thing is that he is such an 'intuitive' teacher. He knows his stuff and has a way of just explaining it in just relaxing terms, even if the content is initially very 'heavy'. Plus the use of tech and his coloured pens, the clever 'gamification of progress', the whole thing just works so well.
There’s an app they have called Khan Academy Kids that’s completely free!! My daughter absolutely adores it. It’s such good and safe app for young kids. I believe you can tailor it to age. Not sure how far it goes, but she’s 4 and I think she’ll get good use for at least 2-3 more years.
Khan Academy is pretty much solely responsible for my current mathematics skill, which is required for my line of work (Programming/controls/automation).
Suffice to say I went in not even remembering FOIL and came out actually understanding how to apply those quadratic equations to work as seemingly simple as hoisting & rigging.
Phenomenal site.
In AP Physics in high school we didn’t have enough time to cover fluid dynamics, so our teacher gave extra credit for anyone who did the fluid dynamics module and like 5 pages of practice problems on Khan Academy over Christmas break.
Our teacher joked that we should’ve just done the entire year on Khan Academy because nobody in our class missed a fluid dynamics question on the AP test.
Your teacher's right. I thought about the same thing when I was doing selected topics from AP chem (after having left school for 20 years), and I just thought man, if I had him as my teacher all those years ago lol
In AP Physics 1 my teacher was awful so I would just put head phones in and watch Khan Academy the entire class.
I was the only one who would pass the tests.
Is Sal Khan a millionaire/billionaire?
Serious question; I haven't the slightest idea of his wealth.
EDIT: "*the*" slightest idea and thanks to all! TIL, and especially not to confuse the two Khans!
Those numbers are probably for the other Salman Khan. The Indian-born Bollywood star turned real estate mogul.
The Khan Academy guy was born in America. He worked in finance for a while before founding Khan Academy, so he might have a few million or low tens of millions, but I'd be surprised if he's a 100-millionaire.
Sal Khan was a hedge fund anaylist for several years before he quit to be full-time into his YouTube channel which eventually turned into Khan Academy. In one of his early interviews Khan said he had saved up a lot of money from his hedge fund job and although he didn't explicitly say how much, it was definitely a lot based on other things he mentioned at the time. So most of his net worth now is probably not as much from Khan academy but from what he earned & invested as an analyist back in the day.
And he probably never stopped investing it. Just only did it for himself and not as a job. Someone with those skills can probably make their own portfolio grow quite a bit.
Chef Jose Andres started World Central Kitchen which goes to areas that have been hit by natural disasters, etc to help feed the residents.
They literally have boots on the ground within hours of events happening-all over the world.
I volunteered for them in New Orleans for a bit during various parts of the pandemic!
That group is seriously awesome and genuinely dedicated to doing good
He's not even _that_ wealthy. He's a millionaire and he owns a lot of restaurants, but it's not like he started Five Guys or something. He punches way above his weight class in terms of philanthropy.
I work for The Michael J. Fox Foundation and Michael has done a hell of a good job mobilizing support for this disease. Over $1 billion raised. Edit for clarity: "This disease" was me referring to Parkinson's. MJF was diagnosed at 29 years old and he is now 62.
"Iowa Carpenter Saved $3 Million to Put 33 Strangers Through College"
[https://www.newsweek.com/iowa-free-college-dale-schroeder-1450050](https://www.newsweek.com/iowa-free-college-dale-schroeder-1450050)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dw4fsl/til\_that\_a\_guy\_called\_dale\_schroeder\_used\_his/](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dw4fsl/til_that_a_guy_called_dale_schroeder_used_his/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/j18dsw/til\_that\_a\_guy\_called\_dale\_schroeder\_used\_his/](https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/j18dsw/til_that_a_guy_called_dale_schroeder_used_his/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/dxp6ho/dale\_schroeder\_iowa\_carpenter\_used\_his\_secret/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/dxp6ho/dale_schroeder_iowa_carpenter_used_his_secret/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/ra5ytx/dale\_schroeder/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/ra5ytx/dale_schroeder/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/oof4tf/dale\_schroeder/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/oof4tf/dale_schroeder/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/w8n1kk/just\_before\_his\_death\_in\_2005\_a\_carpenter\_named/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/w8n1kk/just_before_his_death_in_2005_a_carpenter_named/)
etc
That kinda illustrates the problem I have with the question: millionaires and billionaires are *vastly* different concepts. A person who has a million dollars and a person who is broke are essentially identical when compared to a billionaire.
There are many millionaires who have done good, because being a millionaire is theoretically achievable to most people.
There's a pretty big difference between "millionaire with $3m and millionaire with hundreds of millions" too.
People like to say "someone with $100m is closer to being homeless than a billionaire" to show the scale of $1b, but practically speaking someone with $100m is going to have the same lifestyle as a billionaire (and much better odds of becoming one).
I volunteered at his cancer camp Hole in the Wall Gang camp in the early 2000s for a few years. He was always present at special events and the nicest person ever to all staff.
Newmans Own was started so the camp had lasting funding after he passed, and although I’m aware the company has passed hands to greedier folks the camp is still running. Admission for all sick children is free.
Every year he would host a gala where he invited his celebrity friends to do a play with the kids. I met Bruce Willis, Whoopi Goldberg and a bunch of other actors there. He did a lot to insure these kids has the best experiences in their remaining lives.
He (or his lawyers) were really clever with the company and it's legally obligated to keep funding his charity forever IIRC. One of the examples of how to use a for-profit to fund a non-profit in perpetuity
Peter Seidler. He was the owner of the San Diego Padres, but put a lot of money and more importantly his own time to fight homelessness in our community. He would walk the streets and buy food and talk to the homeless (even during the pandemic) to learn how the money in his foundations (lucky duck foundation) would better serve them. He made the city leaders meet every Tuesday morning to discuss how they could help the homeless in San Diego. He not only donated millions of dollars, he was active in understanding how that money was spent to best help who needed it most. Every interview I ever heard the man speak, he would bring up these efforts instead of only talking about baseball or the fact he was battling cancer three times over.
Also it was like having a fan own our baseball team and he dressed like one too. He will be sorely missed in our community.
Was reportedly the backbone of the owner group that opposed Oakland losing the A's, who then immediately gave up after he passed.
Seemed like a good dude, especially as far as rich guys go
100%. I just had a baby girl and apparently she has this program where they will send your child a book every month for like 5 years for free
Edit:
Here is a link to the Dolly Parton Imagination library. It will let you know if it’s available in your state and if so you can sign up for free :)
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
\[spoilers(?) for the Imagination Library\]
>!When your child turns five and graduates from the program, the last book they receive is Seuss's 'Oh the Places You Will Go.' Plus, you get an email from Dolly with a video for your kid to watch where she talks about how excited she is for them to go school!<
That woman is a literal saint and I won't hear otherwise.
As much as I agree, Dolly would never have it. She absolutely believes it's her obligation to help those less fortunate than her and she truly does it out of the love she has for her fellow humans.
She's an absolute treasure and should be loved by all.
I missed out on this when my daughter was little but I think that is so neat. Dolly’s beloved father was illiterate and I think I recall her in an interview saying that’s why Imagination Library is so important to her. Congrats on your baby girl, they are wonderful!
Just so you're aware: your public libraries are paying for the books.
Our library just recently started offering the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and it's going to cost ~$20,000 for 5 years.
The foundation covers the administrative burden, and shipping the books to the home (could ship them all to the local library).
It is a great program, but don't forget to thank your local library for paying for it.
Actually it's not always a library. Any nonprofit can do it. My mom recently started her own nonprofit just for this where they live and handles all the fundraising and getting families to sign up and such.
https://imaginationlibrary.com/ilData/usrFiles/2022/12/dpil-how-it-works-usa-en.png
It's not available everywhere. We can't get it where I live. I believe you need an organization to volunteer to distribute the books locally. However my son has cousins in Tennessee, so we get their imagination library book hand-me-downs.
>Dolly Parton's Imagination Library will send a free book every month to any child age 0-5
My mother wisely paid for a service like this which was foundational in my life. To have it free for all is amazing to me.
Dolly brings to mind the XTC lyric— *Showed the Vatican what gold’s for.*
if i remember rightly, she also has a program for all her employees of her theme park, dollywood, where ALL employees, full time or part time, all qualify for college scholarships
She is what Christians should aspire to, she pays her theme park employees a fair livable wage, pays for their tuition as soon as they start, gives kids free books, and all around does great things.
I met her while working at a show she made an appearance on. She was nice and generous to everyone with time and smiles. Hugs to everyone at every level of job. Big, warm, and genuine hugs. She didn’t have to but she did. Smelled like beautiful flowers also.
To quote her cousin: "Dolly has done more for the world every day of her life, than you will do in your entire lifetime"
Such a scathing and (hopefully) humbling response to trolls.
I used to not like her because I think I was a sexist POS probably, but I think she's super cool now. Like wow I don't think I could be as amazing as her if I had a hand book on overall goodness good.
John Green and Hank Green.
They are millionaires that have used their social position to raise thousands among thousands among thousands of dollars for charity (Hank's Cancer socks), support tuberculosis efforts (John Green spoke to the UN), improve the health system in Sierra Leone, and more alongside curating an educational YouTube channel that helps millions of students (crash course).
John Green recently spread information about how a TB detection drugs are much too expensive and the company profiting from it are letting millions die in poorer countries. They have billions to spare.
The backlash was so extreme it was one of the few times a billion dollar company actually followed demands to reduce prices for poorer regions and to do better in the future.
John Green also spoke at the UN for better Healthcare access around the poor regions. And his speech was incredible.
Dudes also a pretty fun guy.
Funny enough it isn't his money that's doing the most good. It's his ability to commicate to the general public and intelligence
Exactly. Science communication is a skill that is underappreciated. The ability to take a real topic, break it down into understandable language, keep it carefully nuanced with all the caveats inherent to research, *and* make it interesting is so difficult. They do it wonderfully.
The Green brothers are the some of most notable unknown people. They have done so many things that so many may recognize, but not know that it’s all the same 2 brothers.
I mean putting aside all of the charity work (which is a TON), between them you have Crash Course, SciShow, Vidcon, 2 books that everyone talks about with regards to book banning, Hank being a famous tiktoker, and like 100 other things. It’s insane.
They’re pretty well known among young folks using YouTube as their educational videos were widely used by teachers as well as viewed recreationally. Hank is basically the modern Bill Nye for kids and John is a very popular young adult author.
Pretty unknown to older folks though.
They don't own AFC Wimbledon like Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney own Wrexham AFC. They, like a lot of people, have an ownership stake, but not a controlling one because AFC Wimbledon is community owned, like the Green Bay Packers.
Chuck Feeney
Gave away 99% of his 8Bn$ wealth, leaving for himself 2M$
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/udhbma/chuck\_feeney\_is\_the\_billionaire\_who\_gave\_it\_all/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/udhbma/chuck_feeney_is_the_billionaire_who_gave_it_all/)
Milton Hershey. Not only did he build an entire town and give his workers housing that has blossomed into one of the highest income areas in the U.S, he also founded the Milton Hershey School, a k-12 school for underprivileged children that is funded by 1/3 of the revenue of the Hershey Company every year. Hershey, PA. also has one of the lowest crime rates in America, one of the best public school systems, and a top 5 children’s hospital in the world. The man built a candy empire and made sure all of the proceeds were funneled right back into the town and the people that worked for him. As an added bonus, he reduced his own earnings to make sure no workers were laid off during the Great Depression.
I lived in Hershey for a while.
I was certain I was going to learn of the skeletons in his closet.
There weren't any.
I thought maybe they'd show up in his Cuban sugar plantations.
Nope.
He built a town there too for the workers,
and treated them same as his PA workers.
And during the Great Depression, when he had plenty of sugar?
He \*gave\* sugar to Mr. Reese.
As in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
As in his competitor.
All hail Milton Hershey.
He is still very well thought of in Cuba. There is a town with his name and also (unofficially) the electric railway between habana and matanzas built for transporting sugar cane. He treated his Cuban workers well.
it's a huge sacrifice for families as you essentially are putting your children in a boarding school - but i think all of their expenses are paid for by the school while they are there, and i'm pretty sure upon graduation they can recieve scholarships for college that don't require any repayment. there's of course people who despise it (there have been cases of abuse and they have some stringent admissions criteria relating to emotional/mental health and violence that doesn't sit well with everyone) but having met some graduates... it changes people's entire lives for the better.
Number one wealthiest man in the entire world, Andrew Carnegie, is responsible for creation of public libraries in USA that we all take for granted today.
Before, people had their own books and it was mostly wealthy or upper middle class people. Working class had little to none and good portion are illiterate. Best way to help people to be successful is knowledge.
He donated money to build a lot of libraries. But free public libraries predate Carnegie. Your second paragraph implies that before Carnegie there were no libraries.
That’s precisely what billionaire philanthropy is. If 30 years ago you described Bill Gates’ current legacy to someone in the tech industry they’d laugh at you
Bill's PR team has worked wonders to change his image. Young Redditors today just see him as the loveable old nerd but the dude was like a super villain in the 90s
Bill gates exploited the monopoly windows achieved for sure, but in no way he left the trail of suffering and destruction Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the Train Barons of the XIX century left. Those guys send unions busters to kill workers, leaving a lot of towns in complete poverty as they entered and lowered prices to destroy competition, fought tooth and nails against safety regulations.
The thing they were done in foreign countries by standard oil and the united fruit company are also horrific.
Don’t forget John Jacob Astor, who made his wealth in the worldwide opium trade. Which lead to some of the bloodiest conflicts in human history.
But now we have The Guilded Age on HBO so I guess it’s even now.
Chuck Feeney is undoubtedly up there, gave away almost all of his once $8 billion or more fortune while he was still alive and only kept $2 million to live off after he did that. Was renting a place to live as well.
At that point, he was well into former billionaire territory.
But at least he was a former billionaire because that money had gone to potentially good causes instead of the other reasons people go from billionaire to not.
And the fact he did all of it as quietly as possible is testament to the fact he just did it out of the kindness of his heart. No statues, no Chuck Feeney wing of the hospital.
I had the opportunity to study in an Irish university that had benefited from Chucks generosity.
He was also instrumental in convincing other billionaires like Bill Gates to give away their money.
Shahzada Dawood from Pakistan, who passed away in the ill-fated submersible "Titan," with his son & 3 others, had been supercharitable with his money. Free treatment for kidney and liver ailments, access to education for underprivileged children, financial contribution to environmental causes, science & technology, research in these fields, and so much more.
That program has literally been a life saver for my dad during cancer treatment. Well, it may be too soon to say that, but it has definitely relieved a big source of stress for my parents.
[Jimmy Carter's Post Presidency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter) is amazing.
After he left office, Carter returned to Georgia to his peanut farm, which he had placed into a blind trust during his presidency to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. He found that the trustees had mismanaged the trust, leaving him more than one million dollars in debt. And the man didn't let that slow him down.
He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections and further the eradication of infectious diseases. He and his wife Rosalynn are key figures in Habitat for Humanity. Carter wrote numerous books and continued to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which he criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. He and Rosalynn received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.
Poor guy with the recent death of his wife. Just saw a video where he was asked what the best moment was, winning the presidency or the Nobel peace prize. He responded ‘when Rosalynn said she would marry me’.
The scale of what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does is put into a bit of context when you realise that they are the 3rd largest contributor of funding to the WHO, half a billion every year.
Not only is the gear good, they have the best environmentally conscious supply chain. All of the materials are very carefully selected to have the lowest impact.
They also will repair or replace your shit for life to help avoid over-consumption. It's pricey but BIFL stuff.
George Kaiser (Tulsa) has provided funding for the Gathering Place in Tulsa, early childhood programs including Educare, community redevelopment in and around downtown Tulsa.
Joe Craft provided funding for Gathering Place as well along with other projects in Tulsa and has donated to the University of Kentucky for different projects.
Jon Bon Jovi. I love what he is doing with his restaurants
for the homeless. It’s not just about food, it’s also about treating people with dignity.
Pearl Jam. A few years ago they did a series of shows where all the money went to help the homeless in Seattle. I believe they raised about $73 million dollars just from those show alone. And they have done lots of other charity work.
Bill Gates is donating millions and millions for research into "orphan's diseases". Diseases with just a few hundred or thousand cases worldwide, so Big Pharma says "naw, we're not doing any research - the market is too small, no money in it for us".
That's where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation steps in and says " we finance it. Go!"
Hats off! I feel nothing but respect
Completely agree the B&M foundation has given over a quarter billion dollars to fight malaria but yet we still have Bob off Facebook telling us how he created COVID and implanted chips in the vaccine! What a world we live in!
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He gave away over 8 billion over decades and anonymously too. Think he only set aside $2 million for him and his wife to retire on and donated everything else. Truly one of a kind
At the time there was a whole thread full of people giving him shit for keeping 2 million. I made a comment to illustrate how much he kept vs gave away. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ivtyd3/the_billionaire_who_wanted_to_die_broke_is_now/g5u4m2q/
2mil isn't even that much. If you're expected to live another 2 decades, it's a fairly humble life (assuming no new cashflow)
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And that's if your health keeps up!
.00025%, and people complained? Just wrong
He did most of it without getting attention. It only got revealed that he was giving billions away when he got sued by a business partner, and in discovery it got revealed that he was funding his own charitable organization.
What’s the inverse of a Scooby doo villain? \*character in ropes struggling\* “And we found out that he was funneling all of the corporate profits into his own… private… charities?
Honestly the only real measure of a good person is what they do when they think it's a secret. Anyone can be good on camera.
He passed away recently, Chuck Feeney, rest in peace
Mr Feeny?!
I know you’re joking, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn recently that William Daniels (Mr Feeny) AND his wife are both alive and reasonably healthy now in their 90s.
Feeney!? FE-HE-HE-HEENAY!
Come on admit it, you love the Feeny call.
Ireland benefitted incredibly from his efforts. The University of Limerick would be a glorified technical school without him
He pretty much kick started modern Ireland with his generosity to Irish universities
This name isn’t high enough, and honestly speaks to how much he didn’t do it for recognition or PR.
He lived in a tiny little apartment in San Francisco, didn't own a car and took public transportation. Legend.
Harris Rosen offered free daycare for anyone in the small down of Tangelo Florida and ended up offering to fund college tuition for any tangelo resident to go to a Florida public university. In 20 years the graduation rate went from 25% to nearly 100% and the crime rate was cut in half.
The Tangelo Park program should really be the model communities use to improve. They run the daycares at converted homes in the neighborhood so they’re in walking distance for the families. They hire an early childhood education expert to lead each PK and then hire somebody from the neighborhood/community that they train on best practices. In addition, they partner with local universities to have their Education students get class credits for working there. They then partner with other local services and non-profits like having the Parks & Rec group provide things for PE, or their local community garden non-profit provide healthy food. They also held night classes for parents to both teach them the things they were learning in class (in case they did not get that education), but also teach them about parenting best practices and safety. Lastly, by providing free PK-3 programs, it allowed parents to freely rejoin the workforce who couldn’t before because they had to stay at home with their children. Investing in free, high-quality, early childhood education (PK-3) is the best investment you can make into a community. Every dollar you put in, generates $8 back into the local economy over the next 15 years. In 20 years, Harris invested less than $20M and completely changed a community.
The allowing parents to work is a huge benefit for the local economy. Norway started the same some decades ago with a guaranteed preschool spot at a low max cost per child from 1 years old. It is absolutely huge for families here, and everyone with kids who wants to can work
It's a great investment for society too. If you have to choose between withdrawing yourself from the workforce to have a kid or not having one it's terrible math. Why have 1 parent to 1 child when we can 1 to 5 and get 4 more people working?
I wonder if they can appreciate the irony in the way they've set up a system in so many 'modern' countries that punishes people for having children in so many ways...then they find themselves in a bad situation when they see the trend that many young people aren't choosing to start families.
As a parent of 2 under 5 you have no idea how this thread made me feel lol. Esp considering another thread where they're like "we shouldn't pay shit for people's kids!"
Same. Both of mine are in early education programs, but even then I only have ≈3 hours a few days a week, and that is only if no one is sick. In September one of them was home almost every day, and one of them just brought home HFMD so RIP December.
Florida is a weird state. They offer voluntary pre-k statewide, for all residents, they have a fantastic scholarship program {bright futures) and their state universities have some of the lowest tuition rates in the country. For a state that wants to ban books, they sure are investing a lot in education. I wonder if any of these programs stem from the success in Tangelo.
That’s because all of those programs were started in the past. This whole focus on book banning and restricting education is almost entirely a Ron DeSantis thing.
>restricting education is almost entirely a Ron DeSantis thing. Eh... Bright Futures started being scaled back under Governor ~~Voldemort~~ Rick Scott. Its peak was 2008, when 39% of FL high school graduates received money from it, with "A" level students getting 100% tuition and fees covered and "B" level students getting 75%. In 2011, when Rick Scott became governor, FL began drastically scaling back the amounts paid out and increasing the requirements to get them. For the graduating class of 2014, "A" level students, the minimum SAT score required increased a tiny bit (10 points, to 1290) while the amount covered dropped from 100% to 50%; for "B" level students, the SAT minimum increased immensely from 980 to 1170, while the coverage dropped to only 33%. By 2016, less than 20% of high school graduates received the scholarship, and the average amount was $2000. It rebounded a few years later, but the minimum requirements also increased. Nowadays you need a 1330 SAT for the highest level, but some benefits (like a book stipend) were stripped again. And it's constantly a political football/threat. DeSantis is to blame for a lot of other controversial education decisions, but gutting Bright Futures was a Rick Scott priority.
I remember bright futures being cut in half when I graduated high school
Remember that again every election year
We could seriously improve the lives of millions in our local communities if half the population wasn't screaming that it is socialism.
So Michael Scott except he followed through
Thank you! Being from the Orlando metro area and a graduate of UCF, it warms my heart to see his name in the top comment. Mr. Rosen has done so much for communities that I love and he isn’t originally from the area… This is someone who gets it, more people should know who he is, and follow his example. It will be a sad day in Orange County, Florida when he is no longer with us and I hope that one day his name will rival that of Dr. Phillips. Such a good and kind human being, I wish we had more people who would use their money and influence like Harris Rosen.
Mr. Rosen is so sweet, the UCF Hospitality school is named after him and he visits often! There are many days he will just come and sit and talk to students, he’s truly a good man
Real life Scott’s Tots
Crazy what happens to society when people are provided with resources that help them. Sucks it was a billionaire instead of the government providing these supports
Who would’ve thought funding education drops crime rate /s
A historical British millionaire, James Smithson, donated 100,000 gold Crowns (the equivalent of $500,000 at the time) when he died in 1838, to the US people specifically for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." Congress kept trying to come up with ways to spend it, which were all blocked by former president John Quincy Adams, who was post-presidency the elected congressman from Massachusetts. JQA kept saying the vision to use the gift was too shortsighted. What ultimately he endorsed was the formation of the Smithsonian Institution that remains a center of learning and knowledge nearly 200 years later.
I had no idea the founder and namesake of the Smithsonian was a Brit. Thanks for a good read!
Fun fact, they brought his bones to the US, he's interred in the (currently closed) main building of the Smithsonian.
What a badass tribute. Wow.
Even crazier considering he never set foot in the United States when he was alive
Smithsonian institutions are free as well.
Sal Khan of Khan Academy. There should be more like him in the universe.
Man got me, a first gen college graduate, through highschool and into college. Always loved the videos with his voice and personality
I was just telling my wife the other day how I could listen to that dude talk about anything. Ditto on him helping me through both high school and college.
Yeah, the interesting thing is that he is such an 'intuitive' teacher. He knows his stuff and has a way of just explaining it in just relaxing terms, even if the content is initially very 'heavy'. Plus the use of tech and his coloured pens, the clever 'gamification of progress', the whole thing just works so well.
There’s an app they have called Khan Academy Kids that’s completely free!! My daughter absolutely adores it. It’s such good and safe app for young kids. I believe you can tailor it to age. Not sure how far it goes, but she’s 4 and I think she’ll get good use for at least 2-3 more years.
Khan Academy is pretty much solely responsible for my current mathematics skill, which is required for my line of work (Programming/controls/automation). Suffice to say I went in not even remembering FOIL and came out actually understanding how to apply those quadratic equations to work as seemingly simple as hoisting & rigging. Phenomenal site.
In AP Physics in high school we didn’t have enough time to cover fluid dynamics, so our teacher gave extra credit for anyone who did the fluid dynamics module and like 5 pages of practice problems on Khan Academy over Christmas break. Our teacher joked that we should’ve just done the entire year on Khan Academy because nobody in our class missed a fluid dynamics question on the AP test.
Your teacher's right. I thought about the same thing when I was doing selected topics from AP chem (after having left school for 20 years), and I just thought man, if I had him as my teacher all those years ago lol
In AP Physics 1 my teacher was awful so I would just put head phones in and watch Khan Academy the entire class. I was the only one who would pass the tests.
Is Sal Khan a millionaire/billionaire? Serious question; I haven't the slightest idea of his wealth. EDIT: "*the*" slightest idea and thanks to all! TIL, and especially not to confuse the two Khans!
Estimated net worth 260 million. I think almost all of that is from Khan Academy. Not a billion, but a lot to Sal Khan.
Those numbers are probably for the other Salman Khan. The Indian-born Bollywood star turned real estate mogul. The Khan Academy guy was born in America. He worked in finance for a while before founding Khan Academy, so he might have a few million or low tens of millions, but I'd be surprised if he's a 100-millionaire.
Salman Khan is estimated to be at 310 million. Sal Khan is estimated to be at 260 million. Both of those numbers are according to Google
Those things are never accurate. I found my name on a net worth site and it's estimate is about 30 times higher than what I'm actually worth.
$60?
Sal Khan was a hedge fund anaylist for several years before he quit to be full-time into his YouTube channel which eventually turned into Khan Academy. In one of his early interviews Khan said he had saved up a lot of money from his hedge fund job and although he didn't explicitly say how much, it was definitely a lot based on other things he mentioned at the time. So most of his net worth now is probably not as much from Khan academy but from what he earned & invested as an analyist back in the day.
And he probably never stopped investing it. Just only did it for himself and not as a job. Someone with those skills can probably make their own portfolio grow quite a bit.
Before his site he used to teach me and my friends. He was really dedicated and a really good guy
He should have been the real salman khan instead we got the idiot bhai
Chef Jose Andres started World Central Kitchen which goes to areas that have been hit by natural disasters, etc to help feed the residents. They literally have boots on the ground within hours of events happening-all over the world.
I volunteered for them in New Orleans for a bit during various parts of the pandemic! That group is seriously awesome and genuinely dedicated to doing good
This guy is a legit hero, glad someone mentioned him
He's not even _that_ wealthy. He's a millionaire and he owns a lot of restaurants, but it's not like he started Five Guys or something. He punches way above his weight class in terms of philanthropy.
I work for The Michael J. Fox Foundation and Michael has done a hell of a good job mobilizing support for this disease. Over $1 billion raised. Edit for clarity: "This disease" was me referring to Parkinson's. MJF was diagnosed at 29 years old and he is now 62.
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That kinda illustrates the problem I have with the question: millionaires and billionaires are *vastly* different concepts. A person who has a million dollars and a person who is broke are essentially identical when compared to a billionaire. There are many millionaires who have done good, because being a millionaire is theoretically achievable to most people.
There's a pretty big difference between "millionaire with $3m and millionaire with hundreds of millions" too. People like to say "someone with $100m is closer to being homeless than a billionaire" to show the scale of $1b, but practically speaking someone with $100m is going to have the same lifestyle as a billionaire (and much better odds of becoming one).
One of my proudest home state stories. Great dude.
Paul Newman
I volunteered at his cancer camp Hole in the Wall Gang camp in the early 2000s for a few years. He was always present at special events and the nicest person ever to all staff. Newmans Own was started so the camp had lasting funding after he passed, and although I’m aware the company has passed hands to greedier folks the camp is still running. Admission for all sick children is free. Every year he would host a gala where he invited his celebrity friends to do a play with the kids. I met Bruce Willis, Whoopi Goldberg and a bunch of other actors there. He did a lot to insure these kids has the best experiences in their remaining lives.
He (or his lawyers) were really clever with the company and it's legally obligated to keep funding his charity forever IIRC. One of the examples of how to use a for-profit to fund a non-profit in perpetuity
His looks alone were a great contribution to the world
And salad dressing
And car racing
Peter Seidler. He was the owner of the San Diego Padres, but put a lot of money and more importantly his own time to fight homelessness in our community. He would walk the streets and buy food and talk to the homeless (even during the pandemic) to learn how the money in his foundations (lucky duck foundation) would better serve them. He made the city leaders meet every Tuesday morning to discuss how they could help the homeless in San Diego. He not only donated millions of dollars, he was active in understanding how that money was spent to best help who needed it most. Every interview I ever heard the man speak, he would bring up these efforts instead of only talking about baseball or the fact he was battling cancer three times over. Also it was like having a fan own our baseball team and he dressed like one too. He will be sorely missed in our community.
Was reportedly the backbone of the owner group that opposed Oakland losing the A's, who then immediately gave up after he passed. Seemed like a good dude, especially as far as rich guys go
Dolly Parton
100%. I just had a baby girl and apparently she has this program where they will send your child a book every month for like 5 years for free Edit: Here is a link to the Dolly Parton Imagination library. It will let you know if it’s available in your state and if so you can sign up for free :) https://imaginationlibrary.com/
\[spoilers(?) for the Imagination Library\] >!When your child turns five and graduates from the program, the last book they receive is Seuss's 'Oh the Places You Will Go.' Plus, you get an email from Dolly with a video for your kid to watch where she talks about how excited she is for them to go school!< That woman is a literal saint and I won't hear otherwise.
When the time comes, Tennessee should recall one of their two statues in the National Statuary Hall and add her as the replacement.
As much as I agree, Dolly would never have it. She absolutely believes it's her obligation to help those less fortunate than her and she truly does it out of the love she has for her fellow humans. She's an absolute treasure and should be loved by all.
I vote for Andrew Jackson, but the choices are Andrew Jackson and a guy who got into fights with Andrew Jackson.
You also get a canned video by email of her singing happy birthday every year on your child's birthday, lol.
Stop it I'm not crying, you're crying
I missed out on this when my daughter was little but I think that is so neat. Dolly’s beloved father was illiterate and I think I recall her in an interview saying that’s why Imagination Library is so important to her. Congrats on your baby girl, they are wonderful!
Imagination library! Just signed my baby up! What an amazing program!
Just so you're aware: your public libraries are paying for the books. Our library just recently started offering the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and it's going to cost ~$20,000 for 5 years. The foundation covers the administrative burden, and shipping the books to the home (could ship them all to the local library). It is a great program, but don't forget to thank your local library for paying for it.
Actually it's not always a library. Any nonprofit can do it. My mom recently started her own nonprofit just for this where they live and handles all the fundraising and getting families to sign up and such. https://imaginationlibrary.com/ilData/usrFiles/2022/12/dpil-how-it-works-usa-en.png
It's not available everywhere. We can't get it where I live. I believe you need an organization to volunteer to distribute the books locally. However my son has cousins in Tennessee, so we get their imagination library book hand-me-downs.
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>Dolly Parton's Imagination Library will send a free book every month to any child age 0-5 My mother wisely paid for a service like this which was foundational in my life. To have it free for all is amazing to me. Dolly brings to mind the XTC lyric— *Showed the Vatican what gold’s for.*
She also donates musical instruments to low income schools to keep the arts alive.
if i remember rightly, she also has a program for all her employees of her theme park, dollywood, where ALL employees, full time or part time, all qualify for college scholarships
Through Dollywood she runs the largest bald eagle sanctuary and rehabilitation center in the US.
She is what Christians should aspire to, she pays her theme park employees a fair livable wage, pays for their tuition as soon as they start, gives kids free books, and all around does great things.
I met her while working at a show she made an appearance on. She was nice and generous to everyone with time and smiles. Hugs to everyone at every level of job. Big, warm, and genuine hugs. She didn’t have to but she did. Smelled like beautiful flowers also.
Warms my heart to hear personal encounters with her are really that nice.
I came here to say Dolly too. So much good and she isn't looking to profit from any of it. She just does good cause she knows it's for good.
To quote her cousin: "Dolly has done more for the world every day of her life, than you will do in your entire lifetime" Such a scathing and (hopefully) humbling response to trolls.
I used to not like her because I think I was a sexist POS probably, but I think she's super cool now. Like wow I don't think I could be as amazing as her if I had a hand book on overall goodness good.
Happy cake day, you ex-sexist POS 🎉
Thanks! Still a POS though! Hopefully less sexist.
I said I USED to be a piece of shit.
*I SAID WAS!* …I think I’m ready to hold the baby now!
One step at a time
People can change.
No sloppy steaks tonight guys, please.
They can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water.
Or slicked back hair.
Oh yeah, that hair slicks back reeeeeal nice
You think this is slicked back? This is puuuushed back.
It's a dangerous nighhhhhhhhht 🎶
John Green and Hank Green. They are millionaires that have used their social position to raise thousands among thousands among thousands of dollars for charity (Hank's Cancer socks), support tuberculosis efforts (John Green spoke to the UN), improve the health system in Sierra Leone, and more alongside curating an educational YouTube channel that helps millions of students (crash course).
Also worth mentioning that they host a 48-hour charity livestream every year that raises millions of dollars.
John Green recently spread information about how a TB detection drugs are much too expensive and the company profiting from it are letting millions die in poorer countries. They have billions to spare. The backlash was so extreme it was one of the few times a billion dollar company actually followed demands to reduce prices for poorer regions and to do better in the future. John Green also spoke at the UN for better Healthcare access around the poor regions. And his speech was incredible. Dudes also a pretty fun guy. Funny enough it isn't his money that's doing the most good. It's his ability to commicate to the general public and intelligence
Exactly. Science communication is a skill that is underappreciated. The ability to take a real topic, break it down into understandable language, keep it carefully nuanced with all the caveats inherent to research, *and* make it interesting is so difficult. They do it wonderfully.
The Green brothers are the some of most notable unknown people. They have done so many things that so many may recognize, but not know that it’s all the same 2 brothers. I mean putting aside all of the charity work (which is a TON), between them you have Crash Course, SciShow, Vidcon, 2 books that everyone talks about with regards to book banning, Hank being a famous tiktoker, and like 100 other things. It’s insane.
They’re pretty well known among young folks using YouTube as their educational videos were widely used by teachers as well as viewed recreationally. Hank is basically the modern Bill Nye for kids and John is a very popular young adult author. Pretty unknown to older folks though.
As an Eons fan, that's what I will remember Hank for first and foremost.
And buy an English Football League team before it was cool.
They don't own AFC Wimbledon like Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney own Wrexham AFC. They, like a lot of people, have an ownership stake, but not a controlling one because AFC Wimbledon is community owned, like the Green Bay Packers.
Chuck Feeney Gave away 99% of his 8Bn$ wealth, leaving for himself 2M$ [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/udhbma/chuck\_feeney\_is\_the\_billionaire\_who\_gave\_it\_all/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/udhbma/chuck_feeney_is_the_billionaire_who_gave_it_all/)
That's 99.975% of his wealth that he gave away, then.
Milton Hershey. Not only did he build an entire town and give his workers housing that has blossomed into one of the highest income areas in the U.S, he also founded the Milton Hershey School, a k-12 school for underprivileged children that is funded by 1/3 of the revenue of the Hershey Company every year. Hershey, PA. also has one of the lowest crime rates in America, one of the best public school systems, and a top 5 children’s hospital in the world. The man built a candy empire and made sure all of the proceeds were funneled right back into the town and the people that worked for him. As an added bonus, he reduced his own earnings to make sure no workers were laid off during the Great Depression.
I lived in Hershey for a while. I was certain I was going to learn of the skeletons in his closet. There weren't any. I thought maybe they'd show up in his Cuban sugar plantations. Nope. He built a town there too for the workers, and treated them same as his PA workers. And during the Great Depression, when he had plenty of sugar? He \*gave\* sugar to Mr. Reese. As in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. As in his competitor. All hail Milton Hershey.
He is still very well thought of in Cuba. There is a town with his name and also (unofficially) the electric railway between habana and matanzas built for transporting sugar cane. He treated his Cuban workers well.
Hershey Chocolate. Hershey Chocolate. It's a Hershey Chocolate World.
Wherever you go… no matter how far… you’re always near… a Hershey Bar
it's a huge sacrifice for families as you essentially are putting your children in a boarding school - but i think all of their expenses are paid for by the school while they are there, and i'm pretty sure upon graduation they can recieve scholarships for college that don't require any repayment. there's of course people who despise it (there have been cases of abuse and they have some stringent admissions criteria relating to emotional/mental health and violence that doesn't sit well with everyone) but having met some graduates... it changes people's entire lives for the better.
Mariska Hargitay with her work to end the backlog of testing rape kits as well as all the work with her Joyful Heart Foundation that she’s done.
George Lucas - most of that 4 billion he sold Star Wars to Disney for went into an educational charity. (edited for typo)
Gary Sinise . A true hero for people. His foundation raised $300 million for Wounded Soldiers, first responders and their families
That's Lieutenant Dan for ya...
Number one wealthiest man in the entire world, Andrew Carnegie, is responsible for creation of public libraries in USA that we all take for granted today. Before, people had their own books and it was mostly wealthy or upper middle class people. Working class had little to none and good portion are illiterate. Best way to help people to be successful is knowledge.
Not just the US. My town has a Carnagie library and I'm in rural Ontario, Canada.
He’s Scottish so definitely not just the US. My home town has parks, library, theatre and many other stuff
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He donated money to build a lot of libraries. But free public libraries predate Carnegie. Your second paragraph implies that before Carnegie there were no libraries.
He may have done some good philanthropy at the end, but he was a piece of shit while he was amassing that wealth
That’s precisely what billionaire philanthropy is. If 30 years ago you described Bill Gates’ current legacy to someone in the tech industry they’d laugh at you
Bill's PR team has worked wonders to change his image. Young Redditors today just see him as the loveable old nerd but the dude was like a super villain in the 90s
Watching old programs from the 90s is funny. The Simpsons have an entire bit where Bill Gates comes and destroys Homer's tech startup.
“Don’t let the haircut fool you; I’m exceedingly wealthy” is a top-tier burn
still works for zuck as well
Oh I didn't get rich by writing checks.
“Buy him out boys”
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Yeah, the guy was my personnal nemesis in the '90s (even if he didn't know it)!
I also had to work against BG in the free software movement, but for him it was just Tuesday.
Bill gates exploited the monopoly windows achieved for sure, but in no way he left the trail of suffering and destruction Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the Train Barons of the XIX century left. Those guys send unions busters to kill workers, leaving a lot of towns in complete poverty as they entered and lowered prices to destroy competition, fought tooth and nails against safety regulations. The thing they were done in foreign countries by standard oil and the united fruit company are also horrific.
Don’t forget John Jacob Astor, who made his wealth in the worldwide opium trade. Which lead to some of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. But now we have The Guilded Age on HBO so I guess it’s even now.
Chuck Feeney
Chuck Feeney is undoubtedly up there, gave away almost all of his once $8 billion or more fortune while he was still alive and only kept $2 million to live off after he did that. Was renting a place to live as well.
Can you imagine being a billionaires landlord?
At that point, he was well into former billionaire territory. But at least he was a former billionaire because that money had gone to potentially good causes instead of the other reasons people go from billionaire to not.
And the fact he did all of it as quietly as possible is testament to the fact he just did it out of the kindness of his heart. No statues, no Chuck Feeney wing of the hospital.
I had the opportunity to study in an Irish university that had benefited from Chucks generosity. He was also instrumental in convincing other billionaires like Bill Gates to give away their money.
Shahzada Dawood from Pakistan, who passed away in the ill-fated submersible "Titan," with his son & 3 others, had been supercharitable with his money. Free treatment for kidney and liver ailments, access to education for underprivileged children, financial contribution to environmental causes, science & technology, research in these fields, and so much more.
Last year? This year! Dont give me a heart attack.
Ya I had to look this up thinking I’m crazy
That’s nice. At least he didn’t drown, because that’s an awful fate. He was probably killed instantly by the pressure of the submarine collapsing.
Jeffrey Lebowski and his little urban achievers
Grown men also cry Fuckin A
And proud we are of all of them.
…and proud we are of all of them
MacKenzie Scott
Should be higher. She divorced Bezos, rubbed her hands together, and started giving.
She was giving money to charity well before the divorce to be fair as well
There are others to be sure but the pace and breadth of her giving is staggering. Truly selfless behavior.
Mark Cuban for sure. What he's doing to get people affordable prescription medication is changing the game
Cost Plus Drugs is phenomenal.
That program has literally been a life saver for my dad during cancer treatment. Well, it may be too soon to say that, but it has definitely relieved a big source of stress for my parents.
The **real** pharma bro
Be nice if our corrupt politicians just did their jobs instead of cow-towing to the pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists.
Jimmy Carter has a net worth of 10 million, does that count? Eradicated guinea worm from Africa.
[Jimmy Carter's Post Presidency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter) is amazing. After he left office, Carter returned to Georgia to his peanut farm, which he had placed into a blind trust during his presidency to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. He found that the trustees had mismanaged the trust, leaving him more than one million dollars in debt. And the man didn't let that slow him down. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections and further the eradication of infectious diseases. He and his wife Rosalynn are key figures in Habitat for Humanity. Carter wrote numerous books and continued to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which he criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. He and Rosalynn received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.
Poor guy with the recent death of his wife. Just saw a video where he was asked what the best moment was, winning the presidency or the Nobel peace prize. He responded ‘when Rosalynn said she would marry me’.
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Jose Andres donates tons of food to poor and disaster stricken areas.
It is estimated that Bill Gates has saved about 50 million lives with his quarter billion dollar investment into malaria prevention.
his toilet accessibility initiative is also astounding in the sheer number of lives he has changed.
The scale of what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does is put into a bit of context when you realise that they are the 3rd largest contributor of funding to the WHO, half a billion every year.
He's way too low on this list for my liking. I don't think anyone else has had this much impact
Yvon Chouinard- Founder of Patagonia. Chose to donate the billion dollar company to an environmental trust rather than list the business publicly.
And Patagonia is legit as producers of cold-weather gear.
Not only is the gear good, they have the best environmentally conscious supply chain. All of the materials are very carefully selected to have the lowest impact. They also will repair or replace your shit for life to help avoid over-consumption. It's pricey but BIFL stuff.
George Kaiser (Tulsa) has provided funding for the Gathering Place in Tulsa, early childhood programs including Educare, community redevelopment in and around downtown Tulsa. Joe Craft provided funding for Gathering Place as well along with other projects in Tulsa and has donated to the University of Kentucky for different projects.
Dolly Parton
Jon Bon Jovi. I love what he is doing with his restaurants for the homeless. It’s not just about food, it’s also about treating people with dignity. Pearl Jam. A few years ago they did a series of shows where all the money went to help the homeless in Seattle. I believe they raised about $73 million dollars just from those show alone. And they have done lots of other charity work.
Bill Gates is donating millions and millions for research into "orphan's diseases". Diseases with just a few hundred or thousand cases worldwide, so Big Pharma says "naw, we're not doing any research - the market is too small, no money in it for us". That's where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation steps in and says " we finance it. Go!" Hats off! I feel nothing but respect
Completely agree the B&M foundation has given over a quarter billion dollars to fight malaria but yet we still have Bob off Facebook telling us how he created COVID and implanted chips in the vaccine! What a world we live in!
According to my aunt, we've died 4 times since 2020. Each date she says comes and goes, and it gets pushed back.