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Facebook's Zuckerberg Among Latest Billionaires to Pledge Their Wealth to Charity

Facebook's Zuckerberg Among Latest Billionaires to Pledge Their Wealth to Charity
Seventeen more of the wealthiest Americans have joined Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charities while still alive. Among the latest of the super-rich to sign up is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done? said Zuckerberg.

Seventeen more of the wealthiest Americans have joined billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charities while still alive.

Among the latest of the super-rich to sign up is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

"People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?" said Zuckerberg.

The Giving Pledge has now logged 57 signatories, whose gifts could generate $600 billion dollars for charity.

(READ the story at the Daily Mail)

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