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Gates Foundation Changes

Posted by internationalh on June 26, 2006

Gates Foundation money has gone a long way towards countering this trend. For example, the foundation currently accounts for 1/6th of world spending to eradicate polio. And it has just gotten bigger, roughly doubling in size. Today Warren Buffet announced a planned donation of roughly $30 Billion additional dollars, making the Gates Foundation the largest charitable foundation in history. It will be spending somewhere between 2-3 Billion dollars a year, with a very large percentage of it going towards global health.

Check out the link here…Sepia Mutiny

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