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...would like to nominate Warren Buffett, the legendary head of Berkshire Hathaway. This year Buffett announced that he would donate most of his wealth to a number of worthy causes--including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. For his sense and humility, he should be TIME's Person of the Year...
...BILL AND MELINDA GATES 2005: JIMMY CARTER...
...financial spark for Edwards’ vaccine spray comes from a $7.6 million grant from a charity whose endowment tops even Harvard’s—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation, through its contributions to professors like Edwards, is shaking up a quarter-century-old practice that has placed research universities between titans of government and industry...
Bill Gates, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1977 who dropped out in his junior year, and his wife, Melinda French Gates, have formed a foundation with about $32 billion in assets. And more is on the way—investor Warren Buffett announced in June that he would add nearly $37 billion of his own fortune to the foundation’s coffers...
...that more and more individuals are looking to find them. For one thing, there are preliminary signs that large donations, such as the $1.5 billion gift to the Salvation Army from the late Joan Kroc and the staggering $37.1 billion pledge from Warren Buffett to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, lead some folks to conclude that big charities don't need their support--although the huge gifts more than offset any loss of small donations...