Charity

Celeb chef and restauranter David Chang took a gamble on the $1 million "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" question and is now writing a seven-digit check to the Southern Smoke Foundation charity. The Million Dollar Question: Chang, the owner of New York City-based Momofuku Group, answered...

An Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: KODK) board member and his wife donated nearly half their stock holding in the company, amounting to 3 million shares, to a religious charity on a day when the company’s stock hit its highest valuation since 2014, the Wall Street Journal...

Last year, Americans gave an impressive $450 billion to charity, but the numbers of donors are dwindling as COVID-19 hints at a global resurgence. A bipartisan effort is underway to expand tax breaks for Americans in an effort to spur donations to nonprofit organizations. Tackling A Common...

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey on Thursday said he was committing $5 million to Andrew Yang's non-profit organization Humanity Forward. The funding is part of the $1 billion in Square shares Dorsey committed to novel coronavirus (COVID-...

If elected, he plans to take a salary of $1, just as he did as the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg tells MarketWatch in an interview. On Giving Away “When I was mayor, I took a salary of just a dollar a year. I still have all 12 one-dollar checks — 93 cents, after...

Ethereum Classic Labs is teaming up with the UNICEF Innovation Fund by donating $1 million to drive blockchain-based solutions for some of the world’s most serious problems, according to a crypto media and research platform the Block. What Happened ETC Labs said it would donate $750k to...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is giving away $9.1 million (JPY 1 billion) to his Twitter followers as a new year's gift. A Social Experiment Maezawa announced the giveaway in a video on Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) video-sharing platform YouTube on New Year's eve, saying that...

If you learned everything you know about Wall Street from movies, you probably think that most traders are like the guys in “The Wolf Of Wall Street.” While it’s a stretch to paint the finance industry as a fountain of money for the public good, there are some traders who are...

"It is more blessed to give than to receive. —Acts 20:35 Those who count themselves among the blessed just because they give charitably may have to do some serious investigation as well as introspection. A recent federal class action lawsuit by one of the donors to Paypal Holdings Inc (...

The holiday season is a time to remind ourselves of the need to help those less fortunate. Here are a few ways techies can make a difference in the life of others. Amazon Smile Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes it easy for shoppers to donate to charitable organizations. The company...