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How a lawsuit could reveal secrets about Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic loophole
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Today’s “working robber barons” have used a tax break to create a $110 billion charity stockpile, called donor-advised funds. It isn’t getting any smaller.

By Theodore Schleifer
Future Perfect
George Soros and Charles Koch team up for a common cause: an end to “endless war”George Soros and Charles Koch team up for a common cause: an end to “endless war”
Future Perfect

The controversial billionaire philanthropists are launching a new anti-interventionist think tank.

By Kelsey Piper
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Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah explains how tech can actually help save the worldRockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah explains how tech can actually help save the world
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Simply working at Facebook doesn’t cut it.

By Rani Molla
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The US is growing more unequal. Some say philanthropy isn’t the solution.The US is growing more unequal. Some say philanthropy isn’t the solution.
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Follow our interview with Raj Shah, the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, at Code.

By Theodore Schleifer
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Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas saysTech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says
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Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson
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What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 2: Co-founders Sue Gardner and Jeff Larson respond to Julia Angwin’s Recode Decode interviewWhat the hell happened at The Markup? Part 2: Co-founders Sue Gardner and Jeff Larson respond to Julia Angwin’s Recode Decode interview
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Gardner said Angwin “is going out and just making up an entirely whole-cloth kind of theme around this advocacy thing.”

By Eric Johnson
How tech founders are trying to disrupt — and replicate — the Giving Pledge
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Silicon Valley billionaires can make promises to give away fortunes to charity. Why can’t the rest of us?

By Theodore Schleifer
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MacKenzie Bezos, with $35 billion, is now the world’s third-wealthiest womanMacKenzie Bezos, with $35 billion, is now the world’s third-wealthiest woman
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How exactly will she spend her money?

By Theodore Schleifer
Technology
Sam Altman is arguing it’s not all about making money. Can that be a model for Silicon Valley?Sam Altman is arguing it’s not all about making money. Can that be a model for Silicon Valley?
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Here’s the idea behind a “capped-profit” model.

By Theodore Schleifer
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Laurene Powell Jobs says President Trump’s attacks on the press are “right out of a dictator’s playbook”Laurene Powell Jobs says President Trump’s attacks on the press are “right out of a dictator’s playbook”
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Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, which owns Pop-Up Magazine and has a majority stake in the Atlantic.

By Eric Johnson
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America’s most generous billionaires gave half as much to charity in 2018 as in the previous yearAmerica’s most generous billionaires gave half as much to charity in 2018 as in the previous year
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Silicon Valley’s favorite charity almost imploded in scandal. Now it’s asking for a second chance.Silicon Valley’s favorite charity almost imploded in scandal. Now it’s asking for a second chance.
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New CEO Nicole Taylor runs a $13 billion philanthropy that services people like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sergey Brin.

By Theodore Schleifer
Technology
How Facebook’s slumping stock price could hurt Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy plansHow Facebook’s slumping stock price could hurt Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy plans
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Eventually, Zuckerberg will have to choose between controlling Facebook and funding his philanthropic efforts.

By Kurt Wagner
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Why nonprofits should think more like tech companiesWhy nonprofits should think more like tech companies
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“Social Startup Success” author Kathleen Kelly Janus explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

By Eric Johnson
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Paul Allen’s sister has been tasked to do a surprisingly hard thing: Give away billions of dollarsPaul Allen’s sister has been tasked to do a surprisingly hard thing: Give away billions of dollars
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Jody Allen isn’t someone most people have heard of, but she’ll wield enormous power in the next few years.

By Theodore Schleifer
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$2 billion in charity is not enough for Jeff Bezos to slink out of the public limelight$2 billion in charity is not enough for Jeff Bezos to slink out of the public limelight
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Don’t expect this announcement to put a pause to questions about how he spends his fortune and how to understand his legacy.

By Theodore Schleifer
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Why the Craig behind Craigslist gave big bucks to a journalism programWhy the Craig behind Craigslist gave big bucks to a journalism program
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His philanthropy funds veterans, women, voter protection and trustworthy journalism.

By Recode Staff