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Bill Gates is charitable, influential, powerful and wealthy almost beyond compare — but he didn’t get there by making one-off end-of-year promises to clean up his financial act over the next ...
Bill Gates: Starting near 2000 and running up through the start of the pandemic, I would say the community—we’re only one part of that—really did a great job getting the food shortages in ...
As a founder of Breakthrough Energy, Gates has dedicated substantial resources to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 – a goal the company describes as "the most difficult challenge humanity ...
In January 2003, Bill Gates first announced the Grand Challenges in Global Health at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMFG) granted $200 million to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH).
The Gates Foundation [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle , Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
Starting in 2000 with the foundation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and particularly after he stepped down as head of Microsoft, he turned his attention to philanthropy, spending more than $50 billion on causes like health, poverty, and education.
Bill Gates Sr. died at home in September 2020 after a battle with Alzheimer’s that had begun more than a decade prior. “I spent yesterday on Alzheimer’s disease,” Gates told CNBC.
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of June 2022, the pledge has had 236 signatories from 28 countries. [1]