Rich US Businessmen Promise to Give Money
By: Andrew Jack in London and Alan Rappeport in New York
Two of the people who set up Facebook have become the youngest billionaires to join
a group started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that asks rich Americans to give
much of their money to charity.
Mark Zuckerberg, who Forbes says is worth about $6.9bn, and Dustin Moscovitz, worth
$1.4bn, both still under 30, have signed the Giving Pledge, a public commitment
to give at least half of their fortune to charity. In total, the 57 people on the
full list are worth more than $270bn.
The commitments come at a time when the country needs more and more philanthropy
to support new ideas and help where there is less public money after the 2008 crisis.
Mr Buffett, who has already promised to give most of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, has asked others to make commitments, and as a result there is
now a public list of pledges.
Choose the correct answer.