Paul Allen, who founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates, announced on Thursday that he planned to give more than half of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy.
Mr. Allen is among a growing number of wealthy philanthropists who are publicly stating their commitments to giving their money away in response to a call from Mr. Gates and Warren E. Buffett, who last month started a program called The Giving Pledge that aims to get the country’s billionaires to devote half their fortunes to charity. Eli and Edythe Broad, John and Ann Doerr and other wealthy philanthropists have also signed on.
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