Warren Buffett donates record $8b in shares to charity
Jonathan Stempel
Warren Buffett donated another $US5.3 billion ($7.93 billion) of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities, his biggest annual donation since he began making them in 2006.
Buffett’s donation boosted his overall giving to the charities to about $US57 billion, including to the family charities in the last two Novembers.
Reuters
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