Babbel, another language startup out of Berlin, has donated courses budgeted at over €1M for refugee projects.
This is not to take anything away from Mr. Barmak, who had the self-confidence to embark on this project with donated equipment, a tiny budget and a cast of nonprofessionals recruited from the streets of Kabul.
Reuters has reported that the Kurdish government has donated 20 per cent of its budget to the crisis.
For every Chief Keef promising to raise the murder rate with his new album, there's a thoughtful artist like Dee-1 donating his video budget to feed the homeless.
Board members also contribute a sizable portion of the annual budget, donating a minimum of US$10,000 per year to the organization.
Invitees, who have in the past included Peter Som and Michael Bastian, received these original invites along with an explanation of their reasons for canceling the holiday fete and their intentions to donate the party budget to Planned Parenthood, Housing Works, an organization close to Henderson's heart and The Stonewall Foundation.
Mr Hintze, one of the richest men in the UK with an estimated fortune of £550 million, donated more than half the budget for a charity, Atlantic Bridge, set up by Liam Fox.
The Stone Barns Center was conceived by David Rockefeller, who helped finance the initial $30 million construction budget, and also donated 80 acres of farmland, to create a grand experiment in the study and practice of sustainable local agriculture.
Campuses like Irvine have made up for some of that decline with federal and private grants, their own budgets and even donated services from test-preparation companies.
The price of crating, shipping, installing and insuring Mr Hirst's works exceeds MoCA's entire annual exhibition budget of $3m a sum donated by Eli Broad, a philanthropist.
