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The Giving Pledge announced Tuesday that 14 more billionaires, including the CEOs of DoorDash and Pinterest.

Nine philanthropic organizations have collectively pledged $5 billion over ten years in support of the creation, expansion, management, and monitoring of protected and conserved areas of land, inland water, and sea.

“We had a good standard of living, but we don’t need a lot of luxuries and we really didn’t see how this money could be spent.”

Scott's total gifts this year are close to $6 billion

Over the past several decades, Gross has donated more than $700 million to charity, the majority of which went to the William, Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation.

Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity.

In 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett started the Giving Pledge, a promise by very rich people to give away a majority of their wealth during their lifetime or in their will.

Former FNC member donates half his wealth to charity

Nineteen individuals and couples—all billionaires and philanthropists—have joined the Giving Pledge in the past year

The newest signatories hail from Canada, India, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. To date, 183 individuals from 22 countries have signed the pledge.

They’re the latest to join Bill Gates’s effort to get the super-wealthy to commit to giving away half of their wealth before they die.

Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani and wife Rohini have signed the Giving Pledge pioneered by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.