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Jin Zidell - Featured August 2011My goal is to bring safe drinking water to 200 million people by the year 2022. So far I've volunteered ten years of my full-time energy and given $7 million (half my wealth) towards that goal- -and at age 73, I'm having the most interesting and ... More |
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Farhad Ebrahimi - Featured September 2010My father is a very successful high-tech entrepreneur, and he gave me a significant amount of wealth before I even turned 21. In fact, even as I write this, he is probably making more money, and a significant portion of that money might be headed my way.... More |
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Genevieve VaughanIn 1979, my father told I had inherited many millions.
I decided to give it to social change projects. Here's why: I had a vision of a gift economy (gift-economy.com) based on women's values. I felt so strongly about this vision that I wanted to... More |
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Brad SeligmanFourteen years ago, when I used my money and legal expertise to start The Impact Fund, I never dreamed we'd be leading the largest class action suit in history.
I was brought up in a Jewish middle class family, where we sat around the table and talked... More |
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Frank RasmusIn my 45 years of working as an insurance claims examiner/supervisor, I never earned more than $45,000 a year. But I lived frugally, invested well, and built up a sizable retirement account. Since retiring a few years ago, I have gleefully discovered I can... More |
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Carol Newell - Will be featured April 2012So many of us are hemmed in by traditional rules about money: you should always maximize profits; you should never touch the principal, nor talk openly about money, nor do business with friends, nor mix business with charitable concerns.
As soon as I... More |
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Alexander Gaguine - Featured April 2011When I was 44, I could have agreed to a plan to receive a $12 million inheritance. Instead, I persuaded my dad to change his estate plans so those millions would go directly into a private foundation. In the years before and after my... More |
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Gigi CoyleMy giving has followed a heart path, not a master plan.
I was stopped in my tracks by inheriting money in 1978. I felt immobilized, unable to continue my job in international development or the life I had known. I went to the desert to ask for... More |
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Lewis CullmanIn 1999, I sold my company, At-A-Glance, to Mead Paper Co. for $550 million. Shortly thereafter, my wife Dorothy and I decided to pledge or give a majority of it away since most of our needs were taken care of.
My first advice about philanthropy came... More |
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Allen AnderssonOur family has begun to deploy as much as 99 percent of our fortune to bring prosperity to Central America, home to some of the poorest people in the Western Hemisphere.
For 20 years, beginning in 1980 in Boston, I tried my luck as a computer software... More |