The Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge is a philanthropic campaign to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

History

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett launched The Giving Pledge campaign in June 2010.[1]

Sam Bankman-Fried signed the pledge in June 2022.[2] His name was removed from the list in December 2022 following his arrest.[3]

Signatories

Notable individuals who have signed The Giving Pledge include:[4]

  • Paul Allen
  • Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz AlSaud
  • John Arnold
  • Laura Arnold
  • Michael Ashcroft
  • Sam Bankman-Fried (removed)[3:1]
  • Lynne Benioff
  • Marc Benioff
  • Michael Bloomberg
  • Edythe Broad
  • Eli Broad
  • Charles Bronfman
  • Edgar Bronfman
  • Warren Buffett
  • Jean Case
  • Steve Case
  • Priscilla Chan
  • Ron Conway
  • Ray Dalio
  • Ben Delo
  • John Doerr
  • Larry Ellison
  • Judy Faulkner
  • Bill Gates
  • Melinda Gates
  • David Green
  • Reed Hastings
  • Mark Heising
  • Barron Hilton
  • Reid Hoffman
  • Mo Ibrahim
  • Carl Icahn
  • George Kaiser
  • Sidney Kimmel
  • George Lucas
  • Alfred Mann
  • Bernard Marcus
  • Billi Marcus
  • Nancy Peery Marriott
  • Yuri Milner
  • Tom Monaghan
  • Betty Moore
  • Gordon Moore
  • Dustin Moskovitz
  • Elon Musk
  • Pamela Omidyar
  • Pierre Omidyar
  • Jim Pattison
  • Peter G. Peterson
  • Victor Pinchuk[5]
  • Mark Pincus
  • Azim Premji
  • Julian Robertson
  • David Rockefeller
  • Jeff Rothschild
  • Marieke Rothschild
  • David Rubenstein
  • David Sainsbury
  • Henry Samueli
  • Sheryl Sandberg
  • Stephen Schwarzman
  • MacKenzie Scott
  • Walter Scott Jr.
  • Craig Silverstein
  • Liz Simons
  • Jeffrey Skoll
  • Tom Steyer
  • Cari Tuna
  • Ted Turner
  • Joan Weill
  • Sanford Weill
  • Anne Wojcicki
  • Susan Wojcicki
  • Hansjörg Wyss
  • Tony Xu
  • Mark Zuckerberg

  1. Loomis, C. J. (2010, June 16). The $600 billion challenge. Fortune. http://archive.today/2020.09.23-020913/https://fortune.com/2010/06/16/the-600-billion-challenge/?iid=sr-link1 ↩︎

  2. Wang, T. (2022, June 1). FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Signs Billionaires’ Giving Pledge. CoinDesk. https://web.archive.org/web/20230805174425/https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/01/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-signs-billionaires-giving-pledge/ ↩︎

  3. Alexander, S. (2022, December 14). Sam Bankman-Fried Cut From Giving Pledge Website After Arrest. Bloomberg. http://archive.today/2022.12.14-233146/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-14/sam-bankman-fried-cut-from-giving-pledge-website-after-arrest ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Pledger List. The Giving Pledge. Retrieved August 5, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230805175831/https://givingpledge.org/pledgerlist ↩︎

  5. Victor Pinchuk. (2013, February 14). The Giving Pledge. http://archive.today/2023.10.27-171709/https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=266 ↩︎

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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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