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Gates Buffett Announcement: Warren Buffett, Melinda French Gates

The Huge Impact of the GIVING PLEDGE on Philanthropy: Making Our World a Better Place to Live In

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In August 2010, the world’s most successful investor in equities, Berkshire Hathaway Founder Warren Buffet, along with Microsoft Founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates (chair and co-chair of the Gates Foundation) got together to establish the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic entity,to enhance their own ongoing efforts in the field of intelligent charitable […]

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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The world’s 2nd largest philanthropy is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shown above The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, 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 as of 2020 to be the second largest charitable

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