will work closely with these companies to develop education and health.
In total, Zuckerberg handed 18 million shares to Sillicon Valley Community. Value of these shares is estimated at 498 million U.S. dollars based on the closing stock price on Tuesday (12/18/2012), when Zuckerberg's donation.
Quoted from Cnet, Thursday (20/12/2012), this is the greatest value for money donation ever made by Zuckerberg.
"I hope we will produce a positive impact on this project," said Zuckerberg in his status update on Facebook.
Name Zuckerberg is already no stranger to the world of charity. Earlier, a man who just turned 28 this year had donated 100 million dollars, also in the form of shares, to a school in Newark, NJ, in 2010 ago.
Later, Zuckerberg also been following a program called Giving Pledge, a campaign triggered by the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett. This campaign would like to invite all the rich people in the U.S. to donate a portion of their wealth to charity.
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