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Richard and Joan Branson are among five UK billionaires who signed up to the Giving Pledge, co-founded by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, on 19 February2013. 

Along with...

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South Africa’s only black billionaire last month became the first African to join Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s Giving Pledge.

Patrice Motsepe, founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals,...

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Giving to education may one of the most popular causes for US donors, with $38.87bn in estimated donations for 2011, but PayPal co-founder and Facebook’s first external investor Peter Thiel...

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The Wood Family Trust (WFT) invested £7.5m in two Rwandan tea factories alongside Lord David Sainsbury’s Gatsby Foundation in December last year, its 2012 Annual Report revealed last month.

The...

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A £200,000 funding initiative launched last month aims to assist grant-seekers by asking them to tell its funders, the Golden Bottle Trust and the Bulldog Trust, what they really need,...

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Four British institutions to benefit from Brazilian philanthropist

Brazilian philanthropist Lily Safra has chosen four British organisations as well as 16 others across the world to benefit from an auction of...

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Tributes are pouring in from across the globe to Olga Alexeeva, whose sudden death on July 19 has left the philanthropy sector reeling.

Alexeeva had made a profound contribution to philanthropy...

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Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are delighted by the public response to their Royal Wedding Charitable Gift Fund that has resulted in an additional...

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A campaign to raise €70m (£63m) by 2014 for Ireland’s charities from philanthropists across the world who have Irish connections is set to reach its target ahead of time. ...

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World-renowned designer Sir Terence Conran has announced that he is giving cash and donations in kind totalling £17.5m to the Design Museum, helping them to create the world’s leading museum...

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