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Giving Away $29 Billion Earned This Pair a Lifetime Philanthropy Award

Warren Buffett presented the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy to the couple who has given away more money than anyone in the...

Ingenious Gates-Funded Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water

He watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. A few minutes later, after a machine...

Gates Foundation Pledges Ebola Cash

The Gates Foundation is committing $50 million to help step up efforts to tackle the deadly virus in the affected countries. This comes on top...
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‘Backwards Bill’ Runs NYC Marathon in Wheelchair to Show Disabled Kids How to Stay Active

Every one of the more than 45,000 runners expected to finish the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on November 3 brings to the...
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Billionaire Gave Most of His Money Away and You Never Heard His Name

An Irish-American billionaire who kept his philanthropy secret for 15 years has given away $7.5 billion - and plans for it all to go...

More Billionaires Pledge to Give Away Half Their Wealth

Nine more wealthy families and individuals have pledged to give at least half of their fortunes to charity as part of a giving campaign...
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First Black South African Billionaire Donates Fortune to Poor

South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, on Wednesday said he has signed up for the Giving Pledge, becoming the first African to join...

11 More Billionaires Take Buffett’s Giving Pledge

Eleven more wealthy American families have joined the Giving Pledge created by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, to commit at least half...
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Gates Gives $42 Million to Safe Sanitation Projects for Reinventing the Toilet

More than 2.6 billion people around the world don't have access to a toilet. Now, the world's largest charitable foundation is launching an effort...

Big Pharma Follows Gates’ Lead; Slashes Drug Prices For Poor Countries

Last month in Geneva, Bill Gates laid out his vision for the impact that broadening access to vaccines can have on the world. Now,...
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Gates Gives $20 Million for School Learning With Games

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it would be investing $20 million to bring new national education standards into the classroom using...
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Gates Foundation Funds Bold Ideas Including Dirt-Charged Cell Phones and Human Waste Fertilizer

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced 88 new winners of $100,000 grants to support innovative research that has the potential to dramatically...
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10 More of America’s Richest Join Gates and Buffett in ‘Giving Pledge’

Yesterday, 10 more of America’s wealthiest families committed to giving more than half their wealth to charity, bringing the total number who have joined...
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Among Latest Billionaires to Pledge Their Wealth to Charity

Seventeen more of the wealthiest Americans have joined billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth...
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Gates Foundation Gives $50 Million to Smithsonian to Reach Youth

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $50 million to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The gift, announced Wednesday night by the Smithsonian,...

Chinese Millionaires Give Generously at Gates, Buffet Dinner

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett held a dinner for around 50 ultra-rich Chinese men and women last week and received some "very generous" gifts....

40 Billionaires Pledge to Give Away Half of Wealth

More than three dozen of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to giving away the majority of their wealth...
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Paul Allen Pledges Majority of his Billions to Philanthropy

Wealthy Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has taken up his friend Bill Gates' challenge to publicly pledge the majority of his wealth to philanthropy. Allen, who...
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World On Track to Cut Poverty in Half, But Turner and Gates Called in to Boost Other Goals

Despite the global economic downturn, the world is still on track to meet a key U.N. goal of halving the number of people living...
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Gateses Give $290 Million for Innovative Education

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced its biggest education donation in a decade, $290 million, in support of three school districts...