Articles about Philanthropy – Page 5 of 7

Microsoft employees donate a record $142M to non-profits, and have a lot of fun along the way

Microsoft has again broken its record for employee giving, donating $142 million to nearly 19,000 charities last year. That’s a… Read More

Bill Gates on Trump, the definition of success, his favorite sandwich, and other Reddit AMA highlights

Bill Gates is one of the most recognizable symbols of success in the modern world. So how does Bill Gates,… Read More

Working Geek: Gates Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Mark Suzman takes leadership cues from former boss Kofi Annan

Mark Suzman’s resume includes a doctorate from Oxford to top off a bachelor’s from Harvard, a correspondent gig for the… Read More

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Week in Geek: Microsoft takes on the DOJ, inside Amazon’s giant post-holiday party, and more

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice are once again battling things out in court. But unlike their duel back… Read More

Amazon toots its charitable horn for the holidays with gifts to nonprofits

As part of its holly jolly makeover, Amazon this week wrapped up a season of philanthropic giving locally and abroad.… Read More

What gives? Tech giant Amazon finally boosts its philanthropic rep in its hometown

Amazon has been making headlines recently — and not just for the stories you’d expect. The Seattle-based tech giant is providing housing… Read More

Risk-takers: How a bet by the Bezos family is fueling a new effort to cure cancer

Back in 2009, immunotherapy was considered a long shot. The process involves reprogramming a patient’s T cells, important elements of the… Read More

Bill Gates: Why young entrepreneurs are Africa’s greatest hope

Bill Gates believes countries throughout Africa can obtain economic prosperity and fairly distributed wealth — but only by mobilizing the… Read More

Paul Allen donates $1M to build homeless housing community in Seattle’s Columbia City

As part of yesterday’s Homeless in Seattle initiative, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced a $1 million donation to convert a… Read More

Bill Gates talks Trump and Clinton and his hope to continue global health efforts with either

Bill Gates has spent years working on global health and fighting to eradicate diseases of poverty in developing countries, and in… Read More

What Bill Gates would do if he were living on $2 a day

Bill Gates, chicken farmer? The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says in a blog post that investing in poultry would his first move… Read More

Marc Benioff, Airbnb founders join Giving Pledge, committing majority of wealth to charity

Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and wife Lynne are among 17 billionaires… Read More

Why a sewage survey gives the Gates Foundation’s CEO new hope for eliminating diseases through innovation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann thinks a Nigerian health officer’s work collecting sewage is “a thing of beauty.”… Read More

Q&A: GiveBIG tech platform recovers, but ‘we still have our helmets on,’ says Seattle Foundation CEO

The past two days have been difficult for nonprofit groups around the Seattle region that rely heavily on the annual GiveBIG… Read More

Tech troubles hit Seattle’s one-day GiveBIG philanthropic campaign

Update: The Seattle Foundation will extend its GiveBIG campaign through Wednesday, May 4. (See statement below). Seattle’s annual GiveBIG charitable… Read More

Jeff Bezos to personally match up to $1M in donations to Mary’s Place homeless nonprofit

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will personally match up to $1 million in donations on Tuesday, May 3, to the Mary’s Place… Read More

Charity meets e-commerce: Seattle’s GiveBig campaign goes mobile with new tech platform

Seattle’s economy is booming at an incredible rate — but not all Seattle residents are profiting equally from the city’s… Read More

NYT burnishes Seattle’s reputation for world-changing nonprofits, fueled by tech money

It goes without saying that Paul Allen and Bill Gates had an enormous impact on Seattle. But their influence on… Read More

Paul Allen launches $100M Frontiers Group program for ‘out-of-the-box’ bioscience

Seattle billionaire Paul Allen added another venture to his philanthropic portfolio today with the creation of the Paul G. Allen… Read More

Geeks Give Back, Week 3: Big strides for STEM education — but your help is still needed

Our annual giving campaign called Geeks Give Back, brought to you in partnership with our friends at Bank of America, is… Read More

Geeks Give Back: The incredible, inspiring story of neurobiology student Mahdi Ramadan

Optimism and perseverance, in the face of obstacles big and small, was the message from Washington State Opportunity (WSOS) scholar Mahdi… Read More

News Brief

Bill Gates to increase Malaria funding by 30 percent

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Sunday that he plans to boost his foundation’s funding for malaria research and eradication by… Read More

Microsoft alumni group giving $175k to former employees’ nonprofit ventures

The Microsoft Alumni Foundation has announced new grants and matching funds totaling $175,000 for former employees whose philanthropy and nonprofit work has been… Read More

Alaska Airlines’ $2.5M gift will fund Aerospace Education Center at Museum of Flight

Alaska Airlines will fund a new Aerospace Education Center at Seattle’s Museum of Flight with a gift of $2.5 million,… Read More

Sloth bears and scoreboards: Crazy items from Microsoft’s annual charity auction

Microsoft just wrapped up its yearly Employee Giving Campaign, the latest installment in a philanthropic initiative that has raised more… Read More

Remembering Bill Henningsgaard, former Microsoft exec who died in plane crash

Authorities in Connecticut confirmed over the weekend that former Microsoft executive Bill Henningsgaard, 54, was killed Friday in a plane crash… Read More

Mystery solved: Why a stretch of ‘Microsoft Way’ has been renamed after an employee

We received the photo above from a curious reader this morning, showing a new “Senanayake Way” street sign on the famed… Read More

Melinda Gates ranks #3 on list of most powerful women

Move over Oprah. Melinda Gates is out to change the world, and she’s moving up the list of the most… Read More

We need more geeks: Hadi and Ali Partovi form Code.org to solve the computer science education crisis

Ali and Hadi Partovi have used their entrepreneurial talents to change the music, advertising and communications industries. Now, the twin… Read More

Vinod Khosla, others bankroll Seattle fund to accelerate Indian startups

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, former Microsoft executive Mike Murray, former Bain Capital managing director Bob Gay and others have joined… Read More