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Ken Griffin doubles down on Miami with a record $3 billion gift to Carnegie Mellon—and plans for a campus in the city Citadel now calls home | Fortune (opens the original)
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Billionaires have been on a giving spree recently, particularly toward higher education. Ken Griffin, the Citadel CEO who is making major moves to reshape Miami, just committed an eye-popping $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, the school announced Wednesday. CMU says this is the largest gift by an individual ever given to a higher education institution, although Nike cofounder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, just committed $1 billion to the University of Oregon and many others have made
Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years | Fortune (opens the original)
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Back in 2020, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion to fight climate change through 2030. Nearly seven years later, the Bezos Earth Fund has granted about $2.4 billion, leaving just about four years to spend down more than $7 billion. The fund’s latest move is doling out more than $25 million in grants announced Sept. 17 to protect more than 625,000 square miles of ocean (an area larger than Alaska) across the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Vanuatu. The
Billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm donates $150M to the University of Oklahoma to help study a cause that’s personal to him: diabetes | Fortune (opens the original)
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More than 40 million Americans live with diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. One of them is billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm, who just donated $150 million to the University of Oklahoma to study the disease he was diagnosed with in his fifties. “I’ve spent my life believing that when you see an opportunity to change the future, you don’t stand on the sidelines—you act,” Hamm said in a statement. The gift is the largest in OU’s history and makes Hamm the university’s large
Boomers are setting up a showdown with millennials, aging in place and plunking down hundreds of thousands on renovating those homes | Fortune (opens the original)
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The housing world is a bit of a generational war zone, mostly between baby boomers and millennials. Baby boomers make up more than one-third of all homeowners, and more than half don’t even have a mortgage, Eric Finnigan, vice president of demographics for John Burns Research and Consulting, previously told Fortune—a figure that is still true today. So in our current environment, where mortgage rates skyrocketed from historic lows throughout the pandemic to a more than two-decade high in October
With no heirs to leave it to, this billionaire is pouring his fortune into a Texas ghost town of about 25 people | Fortune (opens the original)
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The $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer is underway, and baby boomers are passing down their fortunes to their heirs. But what happens when an ultrawealthy person has no descendants? In the case of 81-year-old billionaire John Poindexter, he’s getting creative and funneling some of his wealth into a quite unexpected cause: a super small town in West Texas. Shafter, Texas, is a ghost town in a county that just keeps getting emptier. Presidio County had an estimated 5,433 residents in 2025, down 1
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