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Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation...The foundation is announcing a package of grants this morning aimed at local non-profits, including $672,000 to 10 community foundations.
Transforming how people use computers may have been the easy part...Over the past three years, his foundation has committed $1.4 billion toward agricultural development, funding projects ranging from breeding higher-yielding plants to helping African...
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing $5.3 million of the total, along with $800,000 from the Ford Foundation...The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing $5.3 million of the total, along with $800,000 from the Ford Foundation. The Gates...
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Bill Gates has suggested it could take up to 10 years to weather the current global economic storm. "The financial market and economic conditions that have developed this past year are truly unprecedented," he wrote in his first annual letter about his...
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N chief Ban Ki-moon was tomorrow to host a summit here to galvanise world support for achieving key poverty-reduction goals by 2015 despite soaring energy and food prices compounded by the financial crisis. Nearly 100 world leaders are to join top private...
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