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8 Poverty Resources You MUST Check Out Today. No Excuses
Mashable! —
... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Founded by Microsoft’s Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, the Gates Foundation’s many aims include the elimination of poverty. ...
QuickBits: The Double Whammy for Sony and More
Bits —
... [TechFlash] After giving up on saving Microsoft so he can save the world from disease and ignorance , Bill Gates has more time to think. Now he has a for-profit “think tank” to house his thoughts. ...
Bill Gates says U.S. needs a large fiscal stimulus package
BloggingStocks —
... to get the U.S. economy moving again, and to help its most vulnerable citizens, The Washington Post reported. Moreover, Gates, who now concentrates on philanthropy, said the United States should have a bigger goal than economic growth: it should think in terms of an expansion that increases the number of people who are contributing to the economy and benefiting from it. ...
TED speakers revealed
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles —
TED speakers revealed Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee headline a star-studded group of speakers announced Monday for this year's TED conference, the annual and exclusive thinkfest that has long been the place to be and be seen for Bay Area tech types. The Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, coming up Feb 3 through 7, will be held in Long Beach for the first time in its 25-year history. To date, the cozy confines of Monterey were always home for TEDsters, but the show got too big for that city's small conference facilities. Instead, the ...
Tuning In to Global Health, Lisa Cohen Hopes to Amplify Seattle as Research Hotspot
Xconomy —
... in Seattle at the time, and along with anchorwoman Jean Enerson, she traveled through Africa for two weeks in a delegation with Patty Stonesifer, who was then running the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ...
Bill Gates Writes Home
Techland —
... America's first nerd has issued his first annual letter since he took up a full-time position at his eponymous foundation. He held a press Q&A this morning (afternoon here on America's time-shifted eastern coast), and I got a print copy FedExed to me first thing this morning. It's a classy package: brown and cream, wide margins, bound with stitched thread, encircled by a paper sash (what we call in the print biz a "belly band.") The design is almost Ivian (as in Jonathan Ive). ...
TED2009: Bill Gates on eradicating malaria
Boing Boing —
... He's applying his awesome brain power and sizable foundation funding to eradicating childhood disease and improving education. He and his foundation are studying malaria. 200 million people are suffering from it, but more money is put into baldness drugs than malaria. Obviously, that's because malaria affects poor people. ...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Eager to Develop Mobile Banking in Developing Countries
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... financial services are often too costly and inconvenient for people who earn less than US$2 a day to obtain, and too expensive for banks to provide… Technology like mobile phones is making it possible to bring low-cost, high-quality financial services to millions of people in the developing world so they can manage life’s risks and build financial security.”
Very commendable. For more information you can hit up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
[Via: CellularNews]
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Twitter Used For Social Media Fundraising?
WebProNews Feed —
... The founders of Twitter could speak to Bill Gates about his Foundation and see if they could receive annual funding towards their charity work. Businesses could also sponsor Twitter for its cause marketing work. And all the fractured causes on Twitter at the minute could fall under one umbrella, benefiting from increased support and promotion. ...
Global Health Funding Booms, But Money Doesn’t Always Go to Neediest, UW-Harvard Study Finds
Xconomy —
... Wealthy donors like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have helped spark a movement that has almost quadrupled financial support for global health in the past two decades, yet much of that money is being spread unevenly, and isn’t always getting to the poorest people in the neediest countries, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard University. ...
The State of Online Philanthropy on Social Networks in 2009 so far
Josh Chandler —
... emperors regularly gave to their favorite charities such as hospitals, orphanages, and schools”, more then 1509 years later in 2009 the modern philanthropic leaders such as Bill Gates, ...
Rust Never Sleeps: How Bill Gates Might Save the World
Fast Company - Technology —
... of an unprecedented famine. And since fungi are easily blown about by storms, it's very likely that the U.S. would start to see Ug99 wheat blight by early in the next decade. Nearly all of the top ten wheat producing nations could see Ug99 outbreaks over the course of the next few years. If the development of Ug99-resistant wheat takes longer than expected, the world faces the staggering possibility of a global famine.
So here's where Bill Gates steps in.
In 2008, the Gates Foundation donated $26.8 million dollars to the Durable Rust Resistance project, a ...
If open source were a monopoly
Open Source —
... Let’s put it this way. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is large and powerful. It is bigger, relative to its foundation brethren, than any other charitable foundation ever. ...
Gates Foundation Proposal: Linchpin to National Broadband Strategy? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last week sent analysis data to the FCC that put the cost of installing fiber networks in 80 percent of the anchor institutions (hospitals, medical facilities, schools) in the U.S. at $5 billion–$10 billion. But while the FCC quickly issued a ...
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