Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penelope are third in the standings with a gift of $ 500 m

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and patron, was the most important items philanthropist in the United items States in 2013 with a donation of nearly items a billion dollars is a non-profit organization in Silicon Valley.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan topped the annual ranking of the largest donors in the United items States in 2013, established by The Chronicle of Philanthropy Monday. Aged barely 30 years, are the youngest ever to have occupied the top of the list.
They made a donation in the form of several million shares of the social network Facebook, now valued at up to $ 992 million, a California organization items that operates in the fields of health and education.
The husband gave Zuckerberg in 2012 nearly 500 million in the same foundation. Two years it has received a total of 36 million shares items Facebook, valued at $ 1.5 billion. items
Ranked second largest philanthropists, the Texan entrepreneur George Mitchell, who made his fortune in particular the exploitation of hydrocarbons, bequeathed to his death last July of $ 750 million to the foundation run by his family. One of the main objectives items of this association is to find solutions items to mitigate environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a technique that made the fortune of Mr. Mitchell.
Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penelope are third in the standings with a gift of $ 500 million for research against cancer at the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. This gift, however, is subject to a condition: the association must raise the same amount in the next two years, under penalty of losing half a billion items dollars promised by Phil Knight.
The bimonthly The Chronicle of Philanthropy items notes that the best health of the economy pushed donations significantly: in 2013 its 50 greatest philanthropists thus gave $ 7.7 billion, or 4% over that in 2012.
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