High-dollar philanthropists made a lot of headlines in 2022, but not in ways they might have hoped. Between the widely reported Sam Bankman-Fried fiasco, Zuck’s…

Year Rank Total giving Biggest Gift(s) 2024 13 $250,000,000 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation ($249 million) and Schmidt Family Foundation ($1 million)…

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is launching a new, $300 million initiative that applies advanced computer science to some of the hardest problems…

Like many people who grew up during the 1970s, Wendy Schmidt watched The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. She followed that great explorer and conservationist into the…

The U.S.-based 11th Hour Racing Team won the around-the-world Ocean Race on Thursday, thanks to a jury that awarded the hobbled sloop the equivalent of…

Humans are starting to use the sea more as farmers than as hunters, says Hal Hodson In the summer of 1942, as America’s Pacific fleet…

From funding research to investing in new technology, Wendy Schmidt has emerged as a global leader in protecting our marine environments. In 2013, right before…

Listen for more details on Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s new philanthropic commitment. SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, Eric and Wendy Schmidt announced a $1 billion philanthropic…

Editors’ Note Wendy Schmidt is a philanthropist and investor who has spent more than a dozen years creating innovative non-profit organizations to solve pressing global…

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