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☆ 'Not right' for us to be key global health funder -Gates CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Jennifer Rigby | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Mark Suzman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during an interview with Reuters at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Emilie MadiCompanies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust FollowLONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - It is not right for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to play such a big role in global health funding, but the group will not back away until others step up, its chief executive said. The Gates Foundation has faced criticism that it has too much power and influence in the global health realm, including within the World Health Organization, without the requisite accountability. "It's not right for a private philanthropy to be one of the largest funders of multinational global health efforts," he said, adding that countries ought to be leading the charge. Suzman said the aim of the fund was not to set the agenda for the WHO or other global health groups, but to provide them with better options and data as they make key decisions.

☆ Top business leaders discuss financial innovation at the World Economic Forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

[The stream is slated to start at 2:30 a.m. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Moderated by CNBC's Steve Sedgwick, top business leaders discuss at Davos, Switzerland, how financial actors respond to ongoing disruptions while keeping pace with technological advancement. Joining CNBC is Ronald P. O'Hanley, the chairman and chief executive officer at State Street Corporation, Lynn Martin, president of NYSE Group Inc., Dan Schulman, the president and chief executive officer at PayPal, Mark Suzman, the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mohammed Al-Jadaan, the minister of finance for Saudi Arabia. Subscribe to CNBC on YouTube.

☆ Bill Gates says being rich can 'easily make you out of touch,' but he wouldn't ban others from becoming billionaires
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates said being rich can "easily make you out of touch" during a Reddit Ask Me Anything. Reddit user mspalandas asked the Microsoft cofounder if it's possible to have "ethical billionaires." Gates responded: "Being rich can easily make you out of touch. Gates invited Reddit users to pose questions related to his work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, what he's excited about in 2023, or anything else, for his 11th AMA. The Gates Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

☆ Bill Gates says he'll sell what he owns to fund his philanthropic foundation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bill Gates said Wednesday that he'll sell what he owns as money goes toward the foundation he runs with ex-wife Melinda French Gates. When asked if it was "contradictory" for him to be a humanitarian while owning so much farmland, Gates replied, "Everything I own will be sold." In his response, Gates was referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic foundation he established in 2000 with his then-wife, Melinda French Gates. Gates created the Giving Pledge in 2010 alongside his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett, Gates' close friend and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. The pledge asks the world's richest people to commit to give away most of their wealth to charitable causes in their lifetimes or in their wills.

☆ Bill Gates says his divorce from ex-wife Melinda French Gates was one of his 'personal low points' over the past few years
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bill Gates said his divorce from Melinda French Gates was one of his "personal low points" over the past few years. Gates' father, Bill Gates Sr., died in September 2020. Gates and French Gates divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage. They continue to work together on philanthropic efforts through The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. French Gates mentioned an affair Gates had in 2000 with a Microsoft employee.

☆ Fact Check-‘Catastrophic Contagion’ video is fictional and does not support claims about pandemic preparedness exercises
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Baseless claims that pandemic preparedness exercises are proof that disease outbreaks are “planned” by authorities have been a recurring narrative since the coronavirus pandemic broke out. These fictional scenarios go beyond infectious diseases, as such exercises also exist for natural disasters or nuclear events, for example. These rules, that are binding for WHO members, set out countries’ obligations when handling public health events and emergencies that could potentially cross borders (here) (here). Otherwise, we will be unprepared for the next infectious disease event. Experts told Reuters that preparedness exercises like “Catastrophic Contagion” have been a part of pandemic preparedness for at least the last two decades.

Twitter on Monday disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a group of volunteers who offered the company outside expert advice about online safety, according to an email seen by NBC News. "As part of this process, we have decided that the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this." Holmes added, "Over past week several members of council have had their personal safety and well-being impacted by the actions of Twitter staff." Some members of the council recently sparked an argument over the company's handling of child sexual exploitation material. Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, responded: "this is false."

☆ Warren Buffett explains his $750 million charitable donation on Thanksgiving eve
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"I've got a personal pride in how my kids turned out," Buffett told CNBC's Becky Quick. This is the ultimate endorsement in my kids, and it's the ultimate statement that my kids don't want to be dynastically wealthy." The 92-year-old investor donated 1.5 million Class B shares of his conglomerate to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for his first wife. He also gave 300,000 Class B shares apiece to the three foundations run by his children: the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the NoVo Foundation. In June, he gave 11 million Class B shares to the Gates Foundation, 1.1 million B shares to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and 770,218 shares apiece to his children's three foundations.

☆ Berkshire Hathaway says Warren Buffett donates shares to family charities
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 23 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said Warren Buffett has donated more of his fortune to four family charities, without disclosing whether the billionaire chairman made a new donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett donated 1.5 million shares to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. Another 900,000 shares were split evenly among charities run by his children Howard, Susan and Peter: the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation and the Novo Foundation. Buffett has since 2006 donated more than half of his Berkshire shares, worth more than $46 billion at the time of the donations. According the Buffett family foundation websites, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation works to alleviate hunger, mitigate conflicts and improve public safety around the world.

☆ Bill Gates says he's done some 'weird crap' in his life, such as drinking 'water from fecal sludge', to mark World Toilet Day
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bill Gates said in a LinkedIn post on Saturday that he's done some "weird crap" in his life. In 2015, he also convinced TV host Jimmy Fallon to drink water made from "fecal sludge." In 2015, he convinced TV host Jimmy Fallon to drink water from "fecal sludge" after Gates examined the Omniprocessor, a machine that turns feces into water and electricity. "A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water." Watch a clip of Bill Gates and Jimmy Fallon here:

☆ Gates Foundation pledges $7 billion for Africa as Ukraine war diverts donor cash
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it was committing $7 billion to Africa over the next four years, as Bill Gates warned that the Ukraine crisis was reducing the amount of aid flowing to the continent. Humanitarian groups in Africa are grappling with the diversion of funding away towards Ukraine, and as Russia’s invasion increases goods prices globally, impacting aid operations. Drought, compounded by conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic, has pushed more than 10 million people in the region “to the very brink of a hunger crisis”, the U.S.-based Christian relief group World Vision said this week. Following a meeting with Kenyan President William Ruto, Gates said on Wednesday that the Foundation would establish a regional office in Nairobi. The Foundation in 2021 gave charitable support of $6.7 billion and last week pledged $1.4 billion to help the world’s smallholder farmers cope with climate change.

SummarySummary Companies Money to help farmers adapt to climate impactsTo share tech innovations, help women farmersAdaptation finance a key focus of COP27 talksSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $1.4 billion to help smallholder farmers cope with the impacts of climate change, part of efforts at global climate talks in Egypt to scale up supply of so-called adaptation finance. The world is currently not doing enough to help poorer nations withstand the effects of global warming, the United Nations said last week. The Gates Foundation's commitment, announced at the COP27 conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, will help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia build resilience into their work practices and improve food security. "The climate crisis is causing enormous harm every day as it jeopardizes entire regions of people and economies," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in a statement. The foundation said its funding would go towards climate smart agriculture projects, new applications of digital technologies and other innovations, and to support women farmers.

☆ Bill Gates says rich countries must drive climate change innovation, even though poor countries emit more CO2
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The first-ever Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit brings together climate leaders to showcase transformative solutions that repair and regenerate the planet. Rich countries are going to have to step up their spending to accelerate the innovation, development and deployment of technologies that will help the world reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to Bill Gates. In the essay, Gates gives a brief retrospective of how he sees the world responding to global warming in the 15 years since he started learning about climate change. He's generally encouraged by how some governments and private companies have realized the urgency of climate change and begun investing accordingly.

☆ Which Charitable Contributions Are Tax Deductible?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +11 min

As a result, the number of people who can claim charitable donations fell from about 1 in 3 before the law to 1 in 10 today. The upshot is that charitable donations are still a valuable potential deduction—but only for the right kind of taxpayer. Who qualifies for charitable tax deductionsEvery taxpayer has a choice between itemizing their deductions and claiming the standard deduction. Note that for tax years 2020 and 2021, the IRS let people claim a $300 charitable deduction even if they didn’t itemize, but that allowance has expiredWhat kind of giving qualifies for the charitable tax deductionContributions to officially registered charities, which are designated with a special tax code like 501(c) (3), may be deductible on your federal tax return (and possibly your state tax return). But in typical IRS fashion, there are special rules that determine whether and how much of your charitable donations are deductible.

☆ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledge $1.2 billion to eradicate polio
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 16 (Reuters) - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio globally. Polio is a highly infectious disease spread mainly through contamination by faecal matter, used to kill and paralyse thousands of children annually. Governments and foundations aim to end polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two countries where the virus continues to circulate. But our foundation remains dedicated to a polio-free future, and we're optimistic that we will see it soon," said Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is run by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) co-founder Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates. The Gates Foundation is part of the GPEI, a major project between governments and international organisations.

☆ Melinda French Gates said her foundation with ex-husband Bill Gates will continue until 20 years after both of their deaths
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Melinda French Gates says her foundation with ex-husband Bill Gates, will cease to exist 20 years after their deaths. French Gates said he spoke "before we made a decision." Bill and Melinda Gates finalized their divorce last year, but have said they will continue to run their foundation together. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Dana Point, California, French Gates rebutted remarks made by Bill Gates in late September that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would last for just 25 more years. Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates finalized their divorce last year after a 27-year marriage.

☆ Bill Gates says he and his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, plan to run foundation together for 25 more years
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates and ex-wife Melinda French Gates hope to keep their foundation running for 25 more years, at which point he'll be 91 and French Gates will be 83. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been around for 25 years, and Bill Gates says that's just its halfway mark. Gates and Melinda French Gates established the philanthropic organization in 2000. In 25 years, Gates will be 91 years old, and French Gates will be 83. Alongside Warren Buffett, Gates and French Gates in 2010 created the Giving Pledge, which asks billionaires to publicly commit to give most of their wealth away to philanthropic efforts either during their lifetimes or in their wills.

☆ Melinda French Gates calls out 'great problem' of DC politics: 'There are too many men with seats of power still'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Melinda French Gates is calling out the lack of comprehensive paid family medical leave in the US. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently found the world won't reach gender equality until at least 2108, three generations later than previously projected. "But you have to be frank: There are too many men with seats of power still on Capitol Hill in the United States." "A lot of times, we think we think we're going to get there on gender equality—that we might move the needle a little bit," French Gates told Fortune. French Gates pointed out the disparity in funding between female and male political candidates.

☆ Билл и Мелинда Гейтс объявили о своем разводе
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-04 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Супруги опубликовали совместное заявление, в котором сообщили, что не считают возможным "дальнейший рост в качестве пары". Основатель корпорации Microsoft Билл Гейтс и его супруга Мелинда заявили о разводе. По словам Гейтсов, они не считают возможным "дальнейший рост в качестве пары", но продолжат сотрудничать в рамках созданного ими благотворительного фонда Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. В сообщении 65-летний Билл и 56-летняя Мелинда, которые поженились в 1994 году, отметили, что "за 27 лет вырастили трех замечательных детей и создали фонд, который помогает людям по всему миру жить здоровой и продуктивной жизнью". Как известно, Билл Гейтс с состоянием около 130,5 миллиарда долларов занимает четвертое место в списке богатейших людей мира по версии журнала Forbes.

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