Posted on 02/13/2014 11:27:26 AM PST by Morgana
Philanthropy magazine released an article titled “A Look at the 50 Most Generous Donors of 2013.” Topping the list was Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan.
In 2013 the couple donated 18 million shares of Facebook valued at $992.2 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in Mountain View, California. The couple previously donated 19 million Facebook shares to the same foundation in 2012.
markzuckerbergThe Silicon Valley Community Foundation describes its organization as a “comprehensive center of philanthropy.” They partner with donors to fund for profit and non-profit organizations around the globe. On their website you can see a list of words that describe the values of their company. The first word listed is “collaboration.”
This word summarizes the work of Silicon Valley Community; they work as a middle-man between donors and companies, making it easy for donors to get their funds into organizations they support. They accept a number of assets such as real estate, stock, and mutual funds and offer their donors customized philanthropy services.
One of the organizations Silicon Valley Community Foundation collaborates with is Planned Parenthood. A copy of their 2012 Public Disclosure is available for online viewing. The disclosure reports that the SVCF donated over $480,000 to Planned Parenthood in 2012 alone. The donations benefited Planned Parenthoods in multiple cities: San Antonio, TX; New York, NY; San Jose, CA; Jacksonville, FL; and Burlington, VT.The donations ranged in amount from $5,000 to $361,750.
Donations were earmarked under broad terms such as “health,” “supporting families,” and “building community.” The annual donations to Planned Parenthood have almost doubled from 2011, when the SVCF report shows that SVCF gave close to $250,000.
Although Zuckerberg hasn’t publicly commented on the programs their gift will support, he did say their philanthropy would focus on children. Zuckerberg and his wife have every right to spend their money as they see fit. I’m grateful that they are donating to assist children in need. I only hope none of their funds will end up in the big pockets of Planned Parenthood.
As for Silicon Valley Community Foundation, they should cut ties with the taxpayer-funded abortion giant and funnel donations into the hundreds of Pregnancy Resource Centers, Crisis Pregnancy centers and homes for mothers. The Silicon Valley Community Foundation currently has assets of $2.9 billion, more than 1,600 philanthropic funds under management and over 60 local nonprofit partners. One can only dream of the impact those resources could have if directed into pro-life, pro-family, pro-women organizations. Perhaps someone should write Zuckerberg a letter.
Komen is the worst people to give money to. Abortion can cause breast cancer and we have known this for a long time. The bulk of Planned Parenthood is abortion. More than that if I give my money to one organization I don’t expect them in turn to turn around and give it to another. I expect it to stay where I gave it. So if I give it to fight breast cancer that money should be going to people who are only finding ways to fight and finding ways to cure breast cancer. Nothing more nothing less.
Is that too much to ask?
I was THIS close to getting off Facebook....well now I’m there.
Sick of the whole concept of posting personal crap and then some left-wing nutcase a-hole profiting off it.
I know the answer, just curious if anyone else knows what could possibly posses someone to want to promote killing unborm babies so much they would spend almost a billion dollars?
bump
This is the trap of Silicon Valley.
Lots of CEO’s have cratered their companies and fortunes by not concentrating on their companies.
I will never click on an ad and buy something.
Imagine the impact if that $992 Million went to Crisis Pregnancy Centers!!
It’s hard to BE the baby when you HAVE a baby.
No, it is not too much to ask. My point was simply that giving $100 to Komen is not giving $100 to PP, it is more like giving 25 cents (if that) to PP. Zuckerburg thonks he is doing well, and probably doesn’t care that some of the money goes to PP. That is not the same as the Berkshire-Hathaway guy who is going to give most of his money to PopCon by design when he eventually dies.
PP should be a pariah, but they are not. It is pretty much impossible to avoid distant and indirect cooperation with evil. Let’s say you only eat ChikFilA. Well, they get their chicken from 160 sources, some of whom give PP money. If their paper (napkins, bags) supplier is Scott, more of the same. It doesn’t make them bad. It just means that the Lord of the World and his servants have wormed their way through much of the social and economic fabric of this country.
FB er’s are supporting this by doing FB.
Won’t matter. People get hooked. Soon they will start charging and people will still pay to do it.
She would have had her shoe in her hand too!
$500 per abortion
Mark just killed 2m kids
LOL, you’re asking the guy who runs Facebook what he’s trying to accomplish?!
What’s facebook?
No. I thought the population being replaced might take notice, though.
Unfortunately they’ll probably be last to notice... and their last words will be “hey, wait a minute... “
Those who cannot make the most of life are often greedy fruit squeezing rich boys doing hypocrite “philantropy” that destroys the fruits of their competitors or ration them from life.
Those who cannot make most of life are angry God only gave them a lot and not eternal life. Thus they resort to parasitic lives possessing other people’s lives, namely children here.
This stubbornness in not learning is a rejection of truths and inheritable fruits. Hell to embrace indeed.
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