Nicholas Kulish

Some very wealthy people give their money away in an attempt to burnish their reputations. Not the Tesla C.E.O.

In the wake of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates’s divorce, their foundation added members to its new governing board.

The philanthropist announced new donations to Ukraine aid and Planned Parenthood, and said she would soon debut a database of all her giving.

The organization offered the first official accounting of its finances recently, disclosing a filing to the I.R.S.

The organization, still run by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, will eventually spend $9 billion a year, up from $6 billion, on causes like global health and education.

After going dark during Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Clinton Global Initiative is back.

In a few short years, effective altruism has become the giving philosophy for many Silicon Valley programmers, hedge funders and even tech billionaires.

He said passengers killed on two 737 Max flights were crime victims, siding with relatives who objected to a deal that spared Boeing from a criminal charge.

The Amazon founder, estimated to be worth $124 billion, suggested in an interview on CNN that he would donate most of his money to charity in his lifetime, the first time he had made such a pledge.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive of the embattled cryptocurrency exchange, was a proponent and donor of the “effective altruism” movement.