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George Soros has pledged a donation from his Open Society Institute of $50m (£30m) over ten years to establish the Institute for New...

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Howard Buffett’s philanthropic journey is set to take a new turn as he puts his cheetah conservation reserve in South Africa up for sale, reports the ...

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A US billionaire pharmaceutical executive has donated $100m (£62.5m) to the St. John’s Health Centre in California to help it become a cutting-edge medical hub for the region, the Los...

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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros plans to invest up to $1 bn (£630m) in clean-energy technologies and donate $100m (£63m) to form an environmental advisory group to aid policymakers.

Soros has not...

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As part of a ‘first-of-its-kind’ public-private partnership to help fight poverty in New York, George Soros, chairman of the Open Society Institute, has announced a...

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The biggest private donation to a medical research facility in Australian history has been made by Atlantic Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of media-shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist ...

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Prominent Boston philanthropist Robert Lappin has donated $5m (£3m) to restore the retirement savings of around 60 employees of the family’s business dynasty, which were invested with convicted fraudster Bernard...

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Sixty million children from India’s slums will receive basic education in a hope "to end the cycle of poverty" and turn some into leaders, in a huge scale initiative funded...

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Sunday Times Giving List-topping hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn gave £484m to the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) through fees earned...

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The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard became reality on 1st July, when it was officially established as a permanent non-profit organisation dedicated to genomic research, following a $100m (£61m)...

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