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Diving For Dollars

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Put Your Money Where Your Cause Is

Put Your Money Where Your Cause IsPosted by Jeremy Lehrer on December 14, 2006 - 8:40am.

Green philanthropy got a major shot in the arm in September when Virgin CEO Richard Branson announced that he was giving $3 billion-the anticipated profits from Virgin Group's airline and rail businesses-to fund renewable energy research and development by non-profit organizations and for-profit businesses during the next 10 years. It was perhaps the largest amount of cash that any single person had devoted to the renewable energy cause in one fell swoop.



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