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Most Precious Parts of Notre Dame Cathedral Were Saved; French Billionaires Are Paying to Restore the Rest

After battling the flames inside of Notre Dame Cathedral, officials say that the most iconic relics and structures of the building have survived.

Tech Billionaires Make Largest Donation Ever to Preserve 24,000 Acres of California Coastline

Thanks to a $165 million donation from two tech billionaires, over 24,000 acres of pristine California coastline will be permanently protected in the years...

Tech CEOs, Billionaires Throw Money at Climate Change As Eiffel Tower Shines Green

As the Eiffel Tower, a marvel of 19th century engineering, is flooded with green light to salute the opening of the Paris climate change...

More Billionaires Pledge to Give Away Half Their Wealth

Nine more wealthy families and individuals have pledged to give at least half of their fortunes to charity as part of a giving campaign...

11 More Billionaires Take Buffett’s Giving Pledge

Eleven more wealthy American families have joined the Giving Pledge created by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, to commit at least half...
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Among Latest Billionaires to Pledge Their Wealth to Charity

Seventeen more of the wealthiest Americans have joined billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth...

40 Billionaires Pledge to Give Away Half of Wealth

More than three dozen of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to giving away the majority of their wealth...

Gates and Buffett Are Pushing Billionaires to Give Away Wealth

Investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced on Wednesday that they have met with the top billionaire in the country asking them...

MacKenzie Scott Has Now Given Away $16.5 Billion with New Grants Announced, Since Divorcing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

Here's a hypothetical: You want to give away $640 million, but you want to give it away to many different groups. How do you...

New York Medical School Surprises Students with Free Tuition in Perpetuity After $1Billion Gift–WATCH

When a woman was left an inheritance of $1 billion from her late husband, she used it to pay forward the tuition of students...

IRS Collected Half a Billion Dollars in Back Taxes From Delinquent Millionaires in 2023, Sentencing Some to Prison

The Internal Revenue Service says it collected $482 million from wealthy tax cheats last year, in a continuing effort to step up their enforcement. The...

Good News in History September 15

105 years ago today. Forbes Magazine was founded by Scottish-American financial columnist, B. C. Forbes. After being passed down the family for three generations,...

Good News in History, August 30

187 years ago today, the city of Melbourne was founded in southeast Australia. A traditional meeting place of several Aboriginal peoples including the Boonwurrung,...

Good News in History, July 31

130 years ago today, Conradh na Gaeilge, or the Gaelic League, was founded in Dublin, Ireland as an association to support the Irish language...

MacKenzie Scott Donates $436 Million to Habitat for Humanity, Continuing Her Giving Spree Since Divorce

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity. Calling it a “transformational donation”, Jonathan Reckford,...

MacKenzie Scott Has Given Away Another $2.7 Billion to 286 Charities

The world's 21st wealthiest individual, MacKenzie Scott, has pledged another $2.7 billion to various charities. In a blog post announcing her latest act of generosity, the...

Ex-wife of Amazon CEO has Given Away $4 Billion in Last 4 Months to Help Those Affected by the Pandemic

MacKenzie Scott, who was married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for 25 years, has donated more than $4 billion in the past four months to hundreds...

Planned Reality TV Show Wants to Launch the Winner to the International Space Station

If you've ever had dreams of going into space, you might just want to apply for the upcoming reality show "Space Hero." The grand prize?...

A ‘Momentous Milestone’: Africa Finally Eradicates the Wild Polio Virus From its Continent, After Decades of Work

The World Health Organization is celebrating the news that the African continent is finally free of the wild poliovirus, 24 years after Nelson Mandela...

MacKenzie Scott Has Given $1.7 Billion Dollars To Non-Profits Since Her Divorce

Who hasn’t daydreamed about what they might do with the money if they came into billions of dollars? A month after her divorce from...