Warren Buffett recently donated $6 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to five foundations, bringing his total philanthropy efforts up to the $60 billion.
00:00Warren Buffett is giving away even more of his fortune, and he just set a record.
00:04The soon-to-be former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway donated $6 billion worth of Berkshire shares to the Gates Foundation and four-family charities.
00:13Over the past 19 years, Buffett has donated around $60 billion.
00:17It's all a part of a pledge he made in 2006 to give away most of his wealth to philanthropic causes.
00:22In 2010, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge with the goal that the world's wealthiest philanthropists would give the majority of their wealth to charitable causes in their lifetime or wills,
00:34with Buffett upping his pledge that same year to give away more than 99% of his wealth.
