There are a number of USbillionaires who, in addition to investing in businesses that benefit the public in a variety of ways, also take their civic responsibilities seriously in the form of philanthropic giving as well as supporting greater taxation of their income and wealth.

We have identified a number of civic-minded billionaires in the feature image championing the thrival of all Americans. We have started posts on many of these people.

Top Row from left to right: Frank McCourt, Mike Bloomberg, Steve Case, Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, and Mark Cuban
Center Row: Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Patrick Collison, Ray Dalio, and Oprah Winfrey
Bottom Row: Pricilla Chan, Mark Benioff, Pierre Omidyar, Eli Broad, Chris Hughes, and Eric Schmidt

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Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, owner of the football club Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty.

In 2013, he donated $100 million to establish the McCourt School of Public Policy, the ninth school of Georgetown University. He made a second $100 million gift to Georgetown University in March 2021, for the express purpose of ensuring that “the McCourt School can open its doors more widely and build a pipeline of future public policy leaders that reflects the true diversity of our communities.”

In 2021, he founded the non-profit Project Liberty. The initiative has multiple components which includes the development of the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), the founding of the McCourt Institute with founding academic partners Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po in Paris, and a network of partners within the Unfinished network.

In 2024, he announced plans to build a consortium to buy the US arm of TikTok.

Frank McCourt was featured in the December 19, 2024 US onAir news post titled: The Vision of Frank McCourt.

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Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001 and again from 2014 to 2023. He served as the mayor of New York City for three terms from 2002 to 2013 and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States. In 2024, Bloomberg received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden

He has served as chair of the Defense Innovation Board, an independent advisory board that provides recommendations on artificial intelligence, software, data and digital modernization to the United States Department of Defense, since June 2022.

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Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). Case joined AOL’s predecessor company, Quantum Computer Services, as a marketing vice-president in 1985, became CEO of the company (renamed AOL) in 1991, and, at the height of the dot-com bubble in 2000, orchestrated with Gerald M. Levin the merger that created AOL Time Warner.

Since resigning as chairman of the company in 2003, he has launched a venture-capital firm, Revolution LLC, based in Washington, D.C., and authored The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future, which in 2016 became a New York Times bestselling book.  In 2022 he published his second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream.

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Melinda French Gates(born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987. Shortly afterwards, she began dating the company’s co-founder and then-CEO Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994. In 2000, she and Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable organization. The couple, who have three children together, divorced in 2021. In 2024, she resigned from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue philanthropy independently, having received $12.5 billion for charitable work as part of her separation agreement.

Forbes magazine has consistently ranked French Gates as one of the world’s most powerful women. She and her ex-husband have received numerous awards and honors for their charitable work, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honour. She was recognized as one of the BBC’s 100 women of 2021.

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