Mark Zuckerberg Donating Half His $$$ to Charity
He's already one of the world's youngest billionaires and now he's looking to spread his wealth around. Mark Zuckerberg has just joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's 'The Giving Pledge.'
Back in September, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would be giving $100 million to the Newark school system, and it appears he's on a philanthropic roll. The 26-year-old has just joined Bill Gates, Paul Allen, David Rockefeller, George Lucas and many more billionaires in promising to give half of his money to charity.
The Giving Pledge encourages billionaires to give their money to charity at any time, before or after they die. However, in his letter to the foundation, Zuckerberg said he would be giving the money away while he was still young.
"People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?" Zuckerberg said in a statement. "With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts," he said.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Zuckerberg is among 16 new billionaires to join the Pledge; AOL co-founder Steve Case, investor Carl Icahn and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz have all promised to give half their wealth to charity too.
The Giving Pledge now has 57 members.
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that is Good news.
Too bad he can't donate a few million to the Gigahertz20 charity, that way I don't have to work a 9 to 5 job anymore
That's better than iDonate iPads ithink.....
i dont know why i prefer the money goes into medical or technological research rather then ....well they really didnt say exactly.
i dont know why i prefer the money goes into medical or technological research rather then ....well they really didnt say exactly.
It's up to whomever is donating.
I read that Mark Zuckerberg Donating Half His a$$ to Charity.
It's up to whomever is donating.
yea well if they want to see change in their lifetime they'd better put it into medical fields primarily.
like stem cell, cancer and AIDS ... those 3 should keep the donations busy.
It's up to whomever is donating.
Whoever*
The reason for this is that the clause "whoever is donating" is treated as a noun. Thus, "whomever" would be incorrect, since in the noun clause, it is the subject; it is not part preposition "to" that preceded it. "Whoever" is proper choice when it is the subject of the verb.
@sseyler
sophisticated troll is sophisticated,
If I was a Billionaire, besides being Batman I would donate to Child's play and open up organizations like that to help people around the world.
I'd donate half my billions to hire a army of private investigators backed by an army of "Lawyers" to sue the pants off anyone who lies in public office. That alone would do more to clean up the mess in my lifetime. It could be funded forever by the interest alone as long as it kept up with inflation. Just keep it equal opportunity and investigate any fraud in public office no matter what the background. Since we cant count on the "Free press" to do their contitutional job.
i accept donation
...this is good...more greedy people (overpaid sports players) need to do this
wait this evil chunt is giving his money aeay. now he's just a chunt imo. still though my opinion of him would be like hitler doing the same. deep down he's a greedy evil chunt
If he gave me 10000$ I'd be happy XD
If I were that rich, I would pour the money into some useful research rather than charity.
Whoever*The reason for this is that the clause "whoever is donating" is treated as a noun. Thus, "whomever" would be incorrect, since in the noun clause, it is the subject; it is not part preposition "to" that preceded it. "Whoever" is proper choice when it is the subject of the verb.
boy your in internet terrotories. you beest get out b4 we gets angries. no but really, thanks for helping. course, it's all relative really. if i were to give half of my money away i'd still be fine to right? in fact, the amount of money i give away at the holidays is quite a bit. nearly "half" of my bank account.
as for mark Z. good for him.
I don't dislike this man as much anymore.
Now lets wait and see how many of these people hold up to their promises Can someone early on put a few billion into artificial organs, specifically the heart? I want to live long enough to see this here.
Whoever*The reason for this is that the clause "whoever is donating" is treated as a noun. Thus, "whomever" would be incorrect, since in the noun clause, it is the subject; it is not part preposition "to" that preceded it. "Whoever" is proper choice when it is the subject of the verb.
This is the internet, we speak Stark here, there is no "whom" in Stark!
Still an asshole.
Correct. We know you are. You don't have to post comments to remind us.
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What is the point in giving charity to the west...defeats the purpose lol. Love the irony. Retards.
wait this evil chunt is giving his money aeay. now he's just a chunt imo. still though my opinion of him would be like hitler doing the same. deep down he's a greedy evil chunt
So the founder of a social internet network is similar to Hitler because......?
So this is the first good thing he's done so far from my knowledge.
Instead of giving it to the ineffective school systems, he should be giving it the families to pay for private education.
when billionaires donate half their money at most theyll be multimillionaires.....
when billionaires donate half their money at most theyll be multimillionaires.....
Assuming they have more than 1 billion and less than 2 billion other wise anything more they would still be billionaires
His net worth is $7billion dollars. But that doesn't mean he actually has $7b. it maybe $2~5b for all we know.
So... if he has $4b, gave away half (I could use about $10k for my teeth hint hint) - he'd be suffering with only $2billion left.
Hence, thats why giving the richest 1% the bush-tax cut (without paying for it) is so stupid as the rich never really complained before and already have tax cuts and work-arounds (ie: Exxon paid the USA $0 in taxes last year... say waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahat?)
yea well if they want to see change in their lifetime they'd better put it into medical fields primarily.like stem cell, cancer and AIDS ... those 3 should keep the donations busy.
There are plenty of charities that get barely any funding at all because they don't get nearly as much attention. I'd rather see he give it to one of the lesser known run charities to help them financially as well as bring them much needed attention.
People that just want to look good to others donate to the well known charities, (or just make a pledge to do so 'someday'), but genuinely good people will also donate to charities that few people know of.
With that said, I hope he donates to NORML
I heard about this on Pardon the Interruption yesterday, if Tom is getting beat to tech related news like this by a sports show its time to step it up. lol.
I heard about this on Pardon the Interruption yesterday, if Tom is getting beat to tech related news like this by a sports show its time to step it up. lol.
how about you create your own tech related website and stop bitching about things nobody cares about?
my favorite charity
http://www.judicialwatch.org/