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Two British philanthropists each donated £150 million to London's National Gallery last September, marking the largest gifts ever given to a museum worldwide. A new wave of self-made billionaires is fueling a golden age of charitable giving in the UK, with average donations from top givers jumping from £53 million in 2015 to £126 million in 2025.
British billionaire Sir Chris Hohn donated over £1.4 billion to charity in a single year, leading 100 wealthy donors who gave nearly £5 billion total. The Sunday Times Giving List reveals where Britain's richest are directing their generosity.
Forbes has created a new way to rank billionaires that celebrates generosity instead of just wealth. The "True Net Worth" ranking rewards the ultra-rich for giving money away, not hoarding it.
Forbes just launched a groundbreaking ranking that measures billionaires not just by wealth, but by how much they give away. The new "True Net Worth" system reveals surprising heroes like MacKenzie Scott, who's donated over $26 billion since 2019.
The number of self-made women billionaires worldwide has doubled in the past decade, reaching 150 leaders with a combined wealth of $470 billion. Three Indian women entrepreneurs rank among the global top 50, showcasing the growing power of women-led innovation.
Twenty-four Mexicans made Forbes' 2026 Billionaires List with a combined fortune of $267.3 billion, up 61% from last year. The surge reflects growing prosperity among Mexico's business elite, led by telecom titan Carlos Slim.
Four transplant teams will gather at the iconic Field of Dreams movie site this May for a charity softball game celebrating living organ donors and the lives they save. The event honors National "Wanna Have a Catch Day," inspired by the beloved 1989 film.
A New Jersey eighth grader born with kidney disease is running out of time to find a living donor. The community is stepping up to help 13-year-old Thaddeus Giansanti get the life-saving transplant he needs.
While billionaires prepared for the Met Gala, hundreds of Amazon, Starbucks, and Uber workers walked their own runway in New York's Meatpacking District. The "Ball Without Billionaires" celebrated workers as models wearing designs by immigrant and emerging designers.
Two British billionaires donated £150 million each to London's National Gallery in the same day, marking the largest museum gifts ever recorded worldwide. A new wave of self-made philanthropists is fueling a golden age of charitable giving, with top donors now averaging £126 million annually.
British billionaires are donating at unprecedented levels, with the top 20 philanthropists now giving an average of £126 million each. Two donors just pledged £150 million apiece to the National Gallery in the largest museum gifts ever recorded.
Health organizations in the Netherlands are launching a hopeful campaign to bring life-saving donations to underserved communities. When patients match with donors from similar ethnic backgrounds, their survival rates soar.
A stem cell donor from Poland flew across the world to attend the wedding of the American woman whose life he saved. Their emotional reunion went viral with over a million views.
New technology is solving one of charity's biggest problems: donors can now watch their donations reach those who need help in real time. Blockchain creates a permanent, public record showing exactly where every dollar goes.
Grace Bell gave birth to a healthy baby boy after receiving a uterus transplant from a deceased donor, marking the first successful birth of its kind in the UK. The milestone offers new hope for women born without a uterus who dream of carrying their own child.
A healthy baby boy named Hugo became the first UK child born from a deceased donor's uterus transplant, opening new doors for women with infertility. His mother was born without a uterus, but groundbreaking surgery and IVF made her dream of pregnancy possible.
A Boston doctor has discovered that only 1% of volunteers have the right gut bacteria to donate stool for a life-saving transplant treatment. Some rare super donors have now contributed over 100 samples to help patients with dangerous infections.
A Barcelona hospital successfully performed the world's first face transplant using tissue from a donor who chose medically assisted death. The groundbreaking surgery could open new possibilities for patients waiting for life-changing transplants.
A new $4 million competition aims to solve the critical barriers keeping kidney donation rates flat for 20 years while thousands die waiting. The challenge seeks innovations to support living donors before, during, and after they save lives.
An Israeli nonprofit brought together 1,200 living kidney donors in one room, claiming a Guinness World Record while celebrating over 2,000 lives saved. The event honored the organization's late founder and spotlighted the power of selfless giving.
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