It counts Bill Gates as its largest shareholder, via both his investment firm Cascade and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Meeting Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates on their recent visit to India was inspiring.
He shared the stage with Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates speaking about his philanthropic activities that are focussed on educating the underprivileged.
He met with Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates today.
Launched by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in June of last year, the Giving Pledge is a long-term charitable initiative that aims to inspire conversations about philanthropy and increase charitable giving in the United States.
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Earlier this month, when 40 billionaires, prodded by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, announced they would donate much of their wealth to charity, Ani Hurwitz, director of communications for the New York Community Trust, saw an opportunity.
Ever since Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates formed the Giving Pledge in 2010, enlisting American billionaires to commit at least half of their wealth to charity, one question has hovered: why did the founders focus solely on domestic fortunes?
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Gavi is a public-private partnership which draws together a number of organisations including the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the vaccine industry.
Today teachers at half of all the public schools in the nation have had at least one teacher post a project to DonorsChoose.org, whose supporters include board member Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Business leaders from Intel, Xerox, Kodak, and Time Warner Cable are teaming up with Sally Ride, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the Carnegie Corporation, to find and replicate successful science, math, and technology programs all across America.
It has a growing market, and has pursed ample grants from resources like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
And as you noted, Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and others who have taken the pledge were participants in that meeting.
Gates are co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Beyond her more recent work in corporate philanthropy -- including as the chief operating officer and founding president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through 2011 -- Burwell has experience in government.
When asked to donate some of her time and money to the Baltimore public schools, as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has done, Ms. Winfrey said that she considered contributing money to the failing school system, but decided against it.
Buffett said that he's been surprised by the favorable response to the Giving Pledge during the past six weeks and still plans to host several dinners with around the country with Bill and Melinda Gates to get more wealthy individuals and families to sign on.
Partnerships with national governments and development partners, including, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Envoy for Malaria, which has mobilized thousands of partners with the goal of reaching the universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets by the end of this year, have made these successes possible.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (and wife Melinda) are pushing other fat cats to donate half their wealth, or more, to philanthropic causes before they shuffle off this life.
Mr Gates was in China to talk to its government about a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that would try to identify and fund research that could alleviate poverty.
Though, a few days beforehand, the private Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also chipped in.
Peterson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and our own Skoll Global Threats Fund.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is an amazing organization, one worthy of our admiration.
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David Brandling-Bennett is a senior program manager with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill and Melinda Gates married on Lana'I, according to a Fortune magazine portrait of Melinda.
Nobody has thrown themselves more into philanthropic work than Bill and Melinda Gates.
In the case of power couple Bill and Melinda Gates, they met on the job.
Mr. DAVID BRANDLING-BENNETT (Senior Program Manager, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation): This is not really new technology.
Our future Major League Soccer team will play in the Bill and Melinda Gates Terror Dome!
To tackle this task we headed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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