Unlike fellow tech leaders Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, he did not sign the Giving Pledge, the effort under which the nation’s richest individuals commit to giving at least half their wealth to philanthropy.
His name is absent from the list of gifts of $1 million or more maintained by Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy.
The most recent round of debate began after the New York Times published an unflattering piece in August, stating “there is no public record of Mr. Jobs giving money to charity. . . . Nor is there a hospital wing or an academic building with his name on it.”
"Moreover, Jobs had closed Apple’s philanthropic programs when he returned to the company in 1997 and never reinstated them despite $14 billion in profit last year, the Times reported."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...philanthropy/2011/10/06/gIQA3YKKRL_story.html
I spit on those who thinks Steve Jobs was a great guy.......Phui.....
His name is absent from the list of gifts of $1 million or more maintained by Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy.
The most recent round of debate began after the New York Times published an unflattering piece in August, stating “there is no public record of Mr. Jobs giving money to charity. . . . Nor is there a hospital wing or an academic building with his name on it.”
"Moreover, Jobs had closed Apple’s philanthropic programs when he returned to the company in 1997 and never reinstated them despite $14 billion in profit last year, the Times reported."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...philanthropy/2011/10/06/gIQA3YKKRL_story.html
I spit on those who thinks Steve Jobs was a great guy.......Phui.....