In recent years, private foundations increasingly have sought to incorporate socially responsible investing (“SRI”) mandates. Some SRI mandates take the form of negative screens—e.g., screening out tobacco stocks. Other SRI approaches are more proactive—e.g., a foundation focusing on disease eradication
A promise to give is not a guaranteed charitable gift.
In an open letter to their newborn daughter last December, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan announced they will eventually give 99 percent of their Facebook shares during
On April 25, 2016, Joan and Sandy Weill announced their donation of $185 million to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences in an ambitious effort to accelerate the development of new therapies for diseases affecting the brain and nervous system,
