And as you noted, Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and others who have taken the pledge were participants in that meeting.
In March, Simmons and his wife, Annette, pledged to give half of their fortune to charity, joining the program started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
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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.
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.
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.
Bill and Melinda Gates married on Lana'I, according to a Fortune magazine portrait of Melinda.
After a meal in Miami with Gates, his wife and Pledge co-founder Melinda Gates and several other couples, Blakely spent months mulling it over.
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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Meeting Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates on their recent visit to India was inspiring.
David Brandling-Bennett is a senior program manager with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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.
Bill and Melinda took part themselves--and graciously treated attendees to a well-fed evening at their fabulous home.
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!
In October, Melinda and I sat among two dozen 12th-graders at Eagle Valley High School near Vail, Colo.
Last October Gates brought Melinda and their new daughter to visit Buffett and his wife in San Francisco.
His favorite story is about the 1995 excursion to China that Bill and Melinda organized for seven couples.
To tackle this task we headed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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In 2009 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was criticized for what it was doing with its money.
But Zambia's ambitious malaria plan is being backed by millions of dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It has a growing market, and has pursed ample grants from resources like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
PSI, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has identified ten health solutions we believe have catalytic potential.
Money was given, but what both Bill and Melinda remember most was the gifts of time, enthusiasm, voices and ideas.
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It counts Bill Gates as its largest shareholder, via both his investment firm Cascade and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the past couple of years, however, organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have sponsored some encouraging research.
Last year around this time, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Reinvent the Toilet challenge, motivating engineers to build a better toilet.
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