LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT. FIND YOUR OWN PATH TO FULFILLMENT.
Life Is What You Make It, he explains that he's glad his father didn't let him take the easy way out. With plenty of emotional support — but little financial support from his parents — Peter Buffett has become an Emmy Award-winning musician. He talks to NPR's Renee Montagne about how he learned to "make the best of a good situation."
$1 Billion For Giving Back
Though $90,000 was the only inheritance Peter Buffett received from his father for personal use, he and his siblings have received an enormous sum of money — $1 billion each — to do charitable work. That money came as something of a surprise, and Peter was taken aback by the "awesome responsibility and opportunity."
He says he and his wife spent several years researching how to be most effective as philanthropists. Ultimately, they settled on a charitable way to "invest in undervalued assets," which Peter Buffett admits is "a page out of my dad's book."
"We found that young girls, adolescent girls — in the developing world in particular — are the greatest undervalued asset we've ever seen," Buffett says.
He and his wife have founded NoVo Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women and girls around the world.
"If you support the girl, you support the family, you support the community," Peter Buffett explains. "And it just ripples out all over the world."
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by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin draws a similar conclusion investing in the idea of educating girls.
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin draws a similar conclusion investing in the idea of educating girls.
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