Highlighted Philanthropists
Veronica Atkins
Atkins is one of the top fifty most generous philanthropists. Newsweek also proclaimed her part of the “All-Star Team" in philanthropy.
Naveen Jain
Jain has been named one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring, recognized for winning the Albert Einstein Technology Medal Winner, and received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007.
George Soros
The Soros Foundations are an international network of local, Soros-founded foundations promoting sociopolitical activities.
Kenneth Langone
In 1978, he partnered with Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank to found Home Depot, which today is one of the largest and most successful chains in the home improvement industry. He has contributed almost $150 million dollars to various charities.
Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore is best known as the cofounder of Intel, as well as observer of Moore’s Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at Berkeley and received his PhD from Caltech.
- Gordon Moore and his wife Betty established the Moore Foundation to target science, conservation, and higher education. The Foundation’s focus is funding outcome-based projects designed to improve the life of future peoples and encouraging collaboration among all of their grantees to maximize the outcomes for each initiative.
- Moore and his wife gave $600 million to Caltech for research. These funds are to be for mutually agreed upon educational and scientific programs.