Tech billionaires
Subtitle: reshaping philanthropy in a quest for a better world
By: Lewis D. Solomon.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781412808477
Subjects: Philanthropists -- United States -- Case studies; Charities -- United States -- Case studies; Endowments -- United States -- Case studies; Rich people -- Charitable contributions -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Private foundations in the United States : the impact of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller Sr.; title: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation : big goals but following the traditional foundation model; title: Pierre Omidyar and Omidyar Network : pioneering hybrid philanthropy; title: Jeffrey Skoll and his philanthropic endeavors : funding social entrepreneurs and motion pictures; title: Stephen Case : the rise and fall of a business empire, then entrepreneurship and innovative philanthropy; title: Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Google.org : the corporation as philanthropist; title: Conclusion.