Philanthropist

An hour with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, co-founders of the philanthropic cause the Giving Pledge.

Hundreds of private philanthropies spend almost $4 billion a year to transform K–12 education, with the Gates, Broad and Walton foundations leading the way.

Philanthro-capitalists push the world to accept market based solutions despite evidence those problems are rooted in actions taken by the philanthro-capitalists themselves.

Anti-poverty campaigners have launched an online video game satirizing Bill Gates' global philanthropy by featuring a pixelated version of the billionaire flying across a stereotypical African landscape.

Bill Gates, who has been identified as the world's most significant donor in the fight against AIDS, shares his thoughts on the pandemic with Africa's most prominent HIV/AIDS academics.

By John Stone In a devastating blow to the reputation of Bill Gates as a philanthropist India’s National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) has severed “all financial ties” with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over the Foundation’s manifold...

The Giving Pledge, an initiative started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, added 17 new members this year.

He's been the richest man in the world a record number of times, but that pales to the good works he's doing with his foundation.

American Bill Gates serves as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The private foundation is working to end deadly diseases and poverty. | As It Is

Bill Gates on Africa and why his children won't be billionaires any time soon.

As Bill Gates formally leaves his day job at Microsoft to start work full-time at his family foundation , all eyes in the nation’s $300 billion philanthropy sector are focused on the man that many now call “the Rockefeller of our time,”  Contribute magazine reports.

The Gates family hasn't approached Trump about its pledge to donate half of its wealth.

The Gates’ campaign has signed up nearly 130 billionaires to donate half of their own wealth.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced they will give away 99% of their shares in Facebook – some $45 billion at the company’s current value – over the course of their...

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Today, the Gates Foundation is clearly rethinking its bust-the-walls-down strategy on education — as it should.

As the richest men on the planet, Bill Gates could sleep in the best hotels, dine in the finest restaurants and drive the fastest cars. With £47billion in the bank, his options are infinite. But it is travelling frugally through the Third World and experiencing poverty that makes Microsoft computer tycoon William Henry Gates III and wife Melinda the happiest.

Microsoft's former CEO has made massive donations to global health programmes but an investigation by Andrew Bowman reveals some unpleasant side-effects.

Bill Gates announced plans on Wednesday to donate 100,000 chicks to poor nations in an effort to end extreme poverty. 'If I were living in extreme poverty, I'd want to raise chickens,' Gates said.

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Bill and Melinda Gates addressed their traditional annual public letter this year to Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and longtime friend of the couple who in 2006 committed to donating most of his wealth to the Gates Foundation. The Berkshire Hathaway chairman's gift was valued at more than $30 billion at the time, and brought together the fortunes of the world's two richest...

The richest among us are using their money to tackle problems that government can’t or won’t. But they are accountable to no one.

Bill Gates' Philanthropy: 30,000 Indian girls used as guinea pigs to test cancer vaccine

As the world's political and economic elite gather to discuss their top concerns at the annual Davos summit in the Swiss Alps and with attention this week focused on the scourge of economic inequality, a new report begs questions about the potentially disastrous role the super-wealthy are playing wh...

They are among the richest people on earth, have won plaudits for their fight to eradicate some of the world’s deadliest and prolific killers, and donated billions to better educate and feed the poorest on the planet. Despite this, Bill and Melinda Gates are facing calls for their philanthropic Foundation, through which they have donated billions worldwide, to be subject to an international investigation, according to a controversial new report.

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The philanthropist sat down with STAT for a conversation about everything from his interest in science to Vice President Biden's "moonshot'' against cancer.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says there are some surprising similarities between his former position as the head of one of the world's most influential technology companies, and his current role as one of the world's most well-known philanthropists.

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Microsoft co-founder warns that aid cuts would create leadership vacuum

teleSUR spoke with Global Justice Now’s Alex Scrivener about his group’s new report criticizing the Gates Foundation’s development agenda.

William H. Gates, III, shall ultimately be remembered as the most significant person of his generation. It may not be for the reasons you think. Bill Gates is eligible for consideration by virtue of founding Microsoft (I own a few shares), which despite certain rivals’ success, remains a significant player in [...]

By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, speaking in front of chickens pecking and clucking

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses globalization and philanthropy during an interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)

What does the journey from entrepreneur to philanthropist look like and why do prominent entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, become philanthropic?

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of the world's wealthiest men, talk to CNBC about giving away billions—and making flavored condoms.

Bill and Melinda Gates started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which helps people and organizations all over the world. The Foundation helps to end

Having already given away $28bn, Bill Gates intends to eradicate polio, with the same drive he brought to Microsoft . He speaks to Neil Tweedie.

Profile of Bill Gates's support for charities including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Children's Vaccine Program, and Children with AIDS. We have 89 articles about Bill Gates's philanthropy.

"From those to whom much is given, much is expected."

Bill Gates ruffled some feathers when he dissed plans to bring the internet to developing nations. Now we know why.