Tag: homelessness
Billionaire Marc Benioff Donates $30 Million to Research Homelessness
Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, in San Francisco on April 2, 2018. (Matt Edge for The New York Times-Medium) UC San Francisco launched a new research initiative aimed…
Jeff Bezos’s Philanthropic Projects Aren’t As Generous As They Seem
Last week, Amazon founder, CEO, and richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, announced that he and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, were donating $97.5 million to 24 organizations that provide…
Could Billionaires Use Their Wealth to Solve the World’s Problems?
Many people imagine that being fabulously wealthy means living a life of excess and grandeur, buying luxury homes, cars, and traveling the world. While this may be how many of the…
San Francisco Tech Billionaires Go to War over Homelessness
Proposition C, a bill to fight homelessness with a new business tax, slid into San Francisco’s DMs in the middle of the night, politically speaking. What happened was, in December…
Tech CEOs Dorsey And Benioff Face-Off Over San Francisco Homeless Tax
Two of San Francisco’s wealthiest tech leaders clashed on Twitter over the best way to address the city’s homeless problem. Saleforce CEO Marc Benioff is pushing for a tax on…
