They put the house on the market for just under $2 million, bought another for $962,000, and ended up giving nearly $1 million through a six-year pledge, even though the original house sold for only $1.4 million amid a real estate downturn. They would not tell me (and still haven’t told their kids) what percentage of their net worth that contribution represented, but they did not have to put Hannah’s or Joseph’s college tuition at risk. As for what they did with the money, figuring it out was a large enough project that Kevin and Hannah wrote a book about it called The Power of Half,
