My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
If I get the chance to be philanthropic, I want to help kids and teachers.
By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.
Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.
As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.
I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.
I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.