Honnold: Donates one-third of income to environmental solar projects
Alex Honnold · The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo · Feb 3, 2020 · at 27:45
Professional climber Alex Honnold explains how he donates a third of his income through the Honnold Foundation and donor-advised funds.
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“So I started donating a third of my income through the foundation to environmental projects, because I was like, this is still an absurd amount of wealth for me, you know, like, I don't need all this, like, I can give a third for sure, and so, when I started looking up environmental projects, basically, the ones that had the biggest human impact always wound up being solar, and so after five or six years of donating that money through a donor-advised fund through the Tides Foundation, actually in philanthropy then in the last two, two years or so”
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