Ted Turner's Charity Work, Events and Causes

Charity biography

Ted Turner made a $1 billion pledge to the United Nations Foundation – an organization he set up himself – in 1997.

He established The Turner Foundation in 1990 to support efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect the climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates.

The Captain Planet Foundation was founded in 1991 to educate and empower children on how to make a positive impact on their own lives and the health of their communities.

He established the Turner Endangered Species Fund in 1997 to conserve biodiversity by emphasizing restoration efforts of endangered or imperiled species on the Turner properties.

Turner launched the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation he co-chairs with former Senator Sam Nunn, in 2001 to close the growing and increasingly dangerous gap between the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the global response.