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Eleven more billionaires have signed Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s Giving Pledge, promising publically to give away half their wealth before they die.
Manoj Bhargava, founder of 5-Hour Energy drink; Reed Hastings, Chief Executive Officer of Netflix; Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook all are onboard to influence and attempt to increase charitable giving while they still have a voice in the distribution of their wealth.
Other wealthy chief executive officers have declined because they are awaiting proof
that the Giving Pledge is bringing additional money to causes benefitting the
neediest people – as opposed to trusts for the children of the wealthy.
Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com, declined to sign the pledge and donated $100 million to a children’s hospital of his choice. German shipping billionaire, Peter Kramer, questions the power of the super-wealthy shaping issues of public concern such as education and prefers a democratic dialogue that includes government over a private committee.
Since Gates and Buffet started the effort in 2010, total estimated charitable giving has increased four percent and giving by foundations increased 1.8 percent.*
*SOURCE; Giving USA Foundation.
