{"id":16432,"date":"2015-03-27T08:20:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-will-reportedly-donate-his-fortune-to-charity\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T08:20:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:20:31","slug":"apple-ceo-tim-cook-will-reportedly-donate-his-fortune-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-will-reportedly-donate-his-fortune-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Reportedly Donate His Fortune To Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Reportedly Donate His Fortune To Charity<\/b><br \/>\n(Reuters) &#8211; Apple Inc  Chief Executive Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune magazine cited the head of the world&#8217;s largest technology corporation as saying he planned to donate his estimated $785 million fortune to charity &#8211; after paying for his 10-year-old nephew&#8217;s college education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change,&#8221; Cook told the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune estimated Cook&#8217;s net worth, based on his holdings of Apple stock, at about $120 million. He also holds restricted stock worth $665 million if it were to be fully vested.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old CEO&#8217;s revelation in Fortune&#8217;s lengthy profile of him is an example of the increasingly public philanthropy of the world&#8217;s richest people.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire financier Warren Buffett is encouraging the very wealthy to give away at least half their worth in their lifetimes through the &#8220;Giving Pledge,&#8221; whose website lists such luminaries as Microsoft Corp&#8217;s  Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc  and Oracle Corp&#8217;s  Larry Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>While Cook&#8217;s largesse could not begin to approach the scale of a Gates or Zuckerberg, both worth billions of dollars, the Apple CEO told Fortune he hopes to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Cook, who is not listed on the website, is known as an intensely private person who shuns the spotlight on philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, however, he has begun speaking out more openly about issues ranging from the environment to civil rights. Cook, who recently revealed he was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, spoke out against discrimination of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">lesbian<\/a>, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">transsexual<\/a> communities during his induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor last year.<\/p>\n<p>He told Fortune he has started donating money to unspecified causes quietly and is trying to develop a more &#8220;systematic approach&#8221; to philanthropy that goes beyond writing checks.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bengaluru and Edwin Chan in San Francisco; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila and Andre Grenon)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/27\/tim-cook-donate-charity_n_6954164.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&#038;ir=Gay+Voices\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/27\/tim-cook-donate-charity_n_6954164.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&#038;ir=Gay+Voices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Reportedly Donate His Fortune To Charity (Reuters) &#8211; Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth. 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