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Bill Gates decries ‘significant reversal in child deaths’: 4.8 million under 5 will die this year
“It doesn’t have to be like this.” That’s how Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, opens the 2025 Goalkeepers…
Bill Gates gave so much money away that $51 billion just got swiped from his net worth—now his former No. 2 and Microsoft successor Steve Ballmer is wealthier than he is
Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world for 18 years, and currently boasts a jealousy-inducing net worth…
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, launched in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, that invites the world’s…
The only person whose net worth has dropped anywhere near as much as Elon Musk’s is Bill Gates’—and he’s giving it away
A matter of months later and Musk, the richest man on the planet, was out of the White House. He…
Just 1% of health R&D targets women. The Gates Foundation aims to change that with $2.5 billion push
Globally, women live an average of three-and-a-half years longer than men, for a variety of genetic, hormonal, and societal reasons.…
Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over
The era of billionaire baby boomer men leading philanthropy is over—wealthy women are taking the reins, as the likes of…
On July 3, 2006, Warren Buffett drove to the U.S. Bank branch in downtown Omaha, walked in, went downstairs, and…
The philanthropy world weighs in on Bill Gates’ $200 billion bet on global health: ‘People will be watching this as an example’
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Melinda French Gates says the Gates Foundation’s commitment to spend its entire $200 billion on global health by 2045 is ‘fantastic’: ‘The vast majority of resources were to go back to society’
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On August 27, African faith, farming, and environmental leaders came together to launch an unusual statement. Their open letter was…












