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  2. Young Silicon Valley Billionaires Pioneer New Approach to Philanthropy

    Tuna and Moskovitz were in their mid-20s in 2010 when they became the youngest couple ever to sign on to the Giving Pledge, the campaign started by Bill Gates and Warren E. Buffett to encourage the world’s billionaires to commit to giving away most of their wealth. They had little experience with philanthropy, but they believed that the bulk of the money Moskovitz had made — estimated to be $8.1 billion by Forbes — should be returned to society in their lifetimes. The question was how.

    Washington Post

  3. A Facebook Co-Founder and His Wife Use Effective Altruism to Shape Giving

    Effective altruism is still a niche movement, made up primarily of a small number of philosophers, techies, and financiers who structure their work or their giving—or both—to achieve the most good possible. But it’s a niche that happens to include a young couple who may eventually give away billions of dollars. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, and his wife, Cari Tuna, are organizing their foundation, Good Ventures, to adopt the principles of effective altruism.

    Chronicle of Philanthropy

  4. Another Facebook Co-Founder Gets Philanthropic

    Some advice for nonprofits that want a piece of the Facebook fortune: Get yourself on GiveWell‘s list of effective charities. Good Ventures, the new foundation started by the 27-year-old Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, is beginning to give away its money to nonprofits recommended by the charity-evaluation group.

     

    Chronicle of Philanthropy

  5. Forbes 400 Summit: Bill Gates and Dustin Moskovitz

    When you pair America’s richest man, world-famous Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, with America’s youngest billionaire, little-known Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, affinities quickly emerge. Both went to Harvard. Both dropped out to start tech companies. Both found fabulous success early in life. And both spend a lot of time pondering how to give their fortunes away.

     

    Forbes