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| Jason Franklin recently was named executive director of Bolder Giving, a Boston area nonprofit that encourages people to give to charitable organizations, which was credited as a key inspiration for the recently formed Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates Giving Pledge.
Before joining Bolder Giving, Franklin most recently served as deputy director of the 21st Century School Fund, an organization in Washington that works to improve school buildings.
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| June 25 I wrote on this blog about Boston couple, Anne and Christopher Ellinger's Bolder Giving effort to raise money from people across the economic spectrum to think about how to donate a higher percentage of their assets and become effective philanthropists who can inspire and collaborate with others. Well, yesterday's Seattle Times says that Melinda Gates has credited Bolder Giving, started in 2007, with being an impetus behind the campaign to persuade the world’s ... |
| A nonprofit organization that encourages people across the economic spectrum to explore philanthropic collaborations and consider how they can give a higher proportion of their assets was a key inspiration for the Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates Giving Pledge, The Seattle Times writes.
Melinda Gates has credited Bolder Giving, started in 2007 by Boston couple Anne and Christopher Ellinger, with being an impetus behind the campaign to persuade the world’s... |
| How much money is enough? Is a system that produces so many billionaires a fair one? Is it a good idea to ask billionaires to contribute their fortunes to charity? If they do, are the results going to be positive?
So far, 40 billionaires have responded to the challenge by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to donate at least half of their money to philanthropy. But "The Giving Pledge" has also inspired some deeper questions about the role of wealth in society.... |
 | Jason Franklin, professor of public administration at New York University and executive director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Bolder Giving, talks about Warren Buffett's push for billionaires to pledge at least half their fortunes to charity, the logistics behind the Giving Pledge and its impact on charitable giving. Franklin speaks with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness."
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| Interview with Jason Franklin, Executive Director, Bolder Giving |
| Warren Buffett said Wednesday that 40 of the world’s wealthiest people have joined him and Bill and Melinda Gates in pledging to give away at least half of their personal fortunes to charity.
In a conference call with reporters, Buffett said he and the Gateses had called between 70 and 80 of the people listed on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest people in the world to make the appeal that they call the “Giving Pledge.”
“It was a very soft sell,” said Buffett, who in 2006... |
 | 40 of the richest US families join Gates and Buffett's pledge to donate most of their money Forty wealthy families and individuals have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.
Six weeks after launching a campaign to get other billionaires to donate most of their fortunes, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. released the first list Wednesday of people who have signed what he and Gates call the "giving pledge."
Buffett decided in 2006 to... |
| Bolder Giving
Buffett and friends Bill and Melinda Gates want billionaires to pledge at least half their money to charity, while another group is asking the rest of us to pledge “bolder giving.”
In fact, this month Buffett and the Gates Foundation made a three-year, $675,000 grant to Bolder Giving, formed in 2007 to encourage people to increase the amount of money they donate. With that money, Bolder Giving hired Jason Franklin as its first executive director and began ramping up its... |
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