The founder of Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB – News) <- - google_ad_section_start!>, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced the donation of almost all his fortune to a foundation nonprofit, philanthropic following the path of Bill and Melinda Gates, when reporting the birth of his daughter Maxima.
Zuckerberg, 31, and added his name to those billionaires Americans have joined the initiative ‘Giving Pledge’ (‘The promise to give’), to devote most of his fortune to philanthropy.
Others who have joined this initiative are the Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda; the COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg; Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison; and mogul Barry Dilller, IAC / InterActiveCorp.
“We will deliver 99% of our shares of Facebook, which currently cost 45,000 million dollars during the course of our lives to join others in the fight to improve the world for future generations, “Zuckerberg on Tuesday wrote on his Facebook page, announcing the birth of Maxima.
The foundation Chan Zuckerberg Initiative seeks to” supercharge and promote equity in areas health, education, scientific research and energy, “says the Facebook page of the foundation
-.” I will continue as president of Facebook “-
Zuckerberg also published a” Letter to our daughter Max “, where the couple appears tenderly looking at the baby in his arms. Not specify exactly what day the baby was born. “Now that you initiate the next generation of Chan Zuckerberg family,” says the letter, “we also started the Initiative Chan Zuckerberg to join other people in the world working to promote equality for all children of the next generations” .
“We will focus first on personalized learning, eradicate disease, to connect people and build stronger communities,” said the couple in the text. “We know it is a small contribution compared with all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we do what we can and work with others,” he added.
“Our society has the obligation to invest now to improve the lives that those who come, not only for those who are here, “Zuckerberg wrote.
” I will continue as president of Facebook many, many years, but these issues are too important to make them wait, “said Zuckerberg, who had reported before the birth of Maxima of its intention to take two months paternity leave.
When it announced the pregnancy of his wife, in late July, President revealed on his Facebook page that had tried to conceive for years, but she had suffered three miscarriages.
Zuckerberg will donate nearly all his shares of Facebook in order to “stimulate and promote human potential equality “through actions of public good, said the social network based in California in a report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC (Shanghai: 603988.SS – News)). Zuckerberg ‘attempts to retain its position majority vote in our company in the near future, “said Facebook in the SEC filing
-.” I take my hat off to Mark “-
“I tip my hat to Mark Zuckerberg to take this decision, which will never regret, and make a difference that will always be remembered,” said the former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, one of the subscribers’ Giving pledge ‘. “The traditional approach to take when you are old or after death is being forgotten,” Bloomberg said in a comment online, referring to Zuckerberg is 31 years old.
The founder of Facebook said in November he and his wife would donate $ 20 million to help provide high-speed Internet classrooms in the United States. This money would be delivered to the nonprofit Education Super Highway organization, the president of Facebook on its website said.
A month earlier, Zuckerberg and the doctor of his wife announced plans to open a private school a poor neighborhood in Silicon Valley, which combine education with health care
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