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28 May 2014, 12:54 pm
David Rothman informs us that out of several billion a year in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, just tens of millions go for public libraries in the U.S. and overseas. [read post]
7 May 2021, 1:35 am
Bill Gates is the world’s fourth richest person and he and his wife of 27 years, Melinda French Gates, run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is said to be the largest non-profit organisation of its kind. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 4:03 am
Here are two recent examples: The NY Times reports that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a growing number of other private foundations are making... [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 7:04 am
The Gates Foundation has played an outsized role in education policy over the past decade and has been instrumental in... [read post]
23 May 2022, 4:58 am
., a for-profit foundation claiming to own all physical property and intellectual property of the Heaven’s Gate religious group, which committed the largest mass suicide in U.S. history in 1997. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 3:58 pm
Cross-posted from ICT4Peace Foundation website. [read post]
8 Aug 2020, 4:05 am
(credit: Jeff Pachoud | Getty Images) For 20 years Bill Gates has been easing out of the roles that made him rich and famous—CEO, chief software architect, and chair of Microsoft—and devoting his brain power and passion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, abandoning earnings calls and antitrust hearings for the metrics of disease eradication and carbon reduction. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 8:37 am
With an infusion of money from US stimulus spending, groups like The Gates Foundation, and the private sector, the technological landscape in higher education is changing rapidly. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 6:38 am
"Over the past three years the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided $1.4 billion for agriculture development in Africa and South Asia. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 4:46 pm
“OCLC has received a $4.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support five years of ongoing operations of WebJunction, the learning place for libraries. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 3:01 pm
Thank GlaxoSmithKline, and the Gates Foundation, if so. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 10:00 am
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation via the New York Times: Closing the Gender Data Gap: In a posting to the New York Times website, the Foundation reports that "[d]ata powers today’s world, informing decisions about everything from business and... [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 11:00 am
Some of these charitable trusts, like the Gates Foundation,... [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 5:54 am
By Donald Zuhn -- As part of its ongoing "Conversations With" series, the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) recently made available its latest question-and-answer offering, which examines the ongoing evolution of intellectual property rights in the United States and internationally. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 11:05 am
Buffett set an example by promising to give away practically all of his wealth eventually, and he has already given $8 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 4:15 pm
(credit: Bill Gates) Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation progenitor Bill Gates is not a fan of cryptocurrencies. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 2:36 pm
The Tax Foundation pretends to be non-partisan. [read post]
18 May 2009, 7:43 am
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is controlled by Bill and Melinda Gates. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 7:19 am
Call-for-Proposals: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Grand Challenge: Voices for Economic Opportunity, grandchallenges.org, September 18, 2019. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 9:07 am
First point against equating the two: no net tax saving for Trump in any case where inclusion and deduction of the same amount would have occurred in the same year, but for the use of the foundation as an intermediary.Second point against equating the two: reflecting that equivalence, there is a common practice, when people such as entertainers or politicians, want to help a charity, of their providing services for a fee or other profits (such as gate revenues) that are paid to the… [read post]
