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     Melinda French Gates Will Give Multi-Million Dollar Grants to a Bunch of DC Groups - Washingtonian

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     'Evening the match': Melinda French Gates to give $1 billion to women's rights groups

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     Less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls. Can Melinda French Gates change that?

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2. www.gatesfoundation.org › warren-buffettWarren Buffett | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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   Trustee 2006-2021 (emeritus 2021) As a trustee from 2006 – 2021, Warren Buffett worked along with Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates to help shape our vision and develop strategies to address some of the world's most challenging inequities. Buffett is a U.S. businessman and philanthropist. As chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire ...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Susan_Thompson_BuffettSusan Thompson Buffett Foundation - Wikipedia

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   Allen Greenberg, the executive director of the foundation, was married from 1983 to 1995 to the Buffetts' daughter, Susie, who is chair. The Buffett Foundation was set up in 1964 but had no director until Greenberg took the job in 1987.

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   Susan Buffett's will bestowed about $2.5 billion on the foundation, to which her husband's further gifts of $315 million have been added.

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   The Buffett Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, preferring instead to seek out worthy recipients on its own. Of the $17.6 million that the Buffett Foundation donated in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999, nearly $3.8 million went to Planned Parenthood, among its top contributors. It also involves itself directly at the clinic level. I...

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   In the 1990s, the Buffett Foundation helped finance the development of the abortion drug RU-486. Between 2001 and 2014, the foundation contributed over $1.5 billion to abortion related causes, including at least $427 million to Planned Parenthood and $168 million to the National Abortion Federation. It has also funded the Guttmacher Institute, whic...

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   Warren Buffett's intention was originally to leave 99% of his estate to the Buffett Foundation, but in June 2006 he announced that he would give 85% of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationinstead. Buffett stated that he changed his mind because he has grown to admire Gates's foundation over the years; he believed that the Gates Foundat...

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   The vast bulk of Buffett's wealth consists of his personal holdings in Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerateof which he controls almost 40% directly, and which he has managed personally since the mid-1960s. Giving away such a large part of his company holding could prove problematic in that much of the business of Berkshire Hathaway consists of stock-...

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4. philanthropynewsdigest.org › news › warren-buffettWarren Buffett awards $4 billion to five foundations

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   Jun 16, 2022 · As part of his annual plan announced more than a decade ago, Berkshire Hathaway chair and CEO and Giving Pledge co-founder Warren Buffett has donated shares of the conglomerate valued at approximately $4 billion to five foundations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Fortune reports. According to the company, Buffett converted 9,608 ...

5. www.givingpledge.org › aboutAbout - The Giving Pledge

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   The Giving Pledge is a movement of philanthropists who commit to give the majority of their wealth to charitable causes, either during their lifetimes or in their wills. In August 2010, 40 of America’s wealthiest people made a commitment to give the majority of their wealth to address some of society’s most pressing problems.

6. www.cnbc.com › 2022/11/24 › warren-buffett-donatesWarren Buffett donates over $750 million to his family charities

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   Nov 24, 2022 · Billionaire investor Warren Buffett donated more than $750 million in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the four foundations run by his family Wednesday, but unlike his annual gifts to charity each ...

7. www.forbes.com › sites › mattdurotWarren Buffett Has Now Given Record $48 Billion To Charity

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   Jun 15, 2022 · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, founded by the Oracle’s late wife, received shares worth roughly $300 million, while three other charitable organizations set up by his three children ...

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   How much does Warren Buffett donate to the Gates Foundation?

   • Nearly half of the Gates Trust's 13F equity portfolio is invested in Berkshire Hathaway, which has been donated to the Foundation piece-by-piece over the past decade. Most estimates place Warren Buffett's total donation of Berkshire stock worth a value north of $11 billion and counting. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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   How much money did Warren Buffett give to charity?

   • Updated on June 15. Warren Buffett, the legendary investor known as the “Oracle of Omaha, ” announced Tuesday that he has donated roughly $4 billion worth of his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway’s stock to charitable foundations for his 17th annual summer gift. That brings his total lifetime giving to a record $48 billion.

   Warren Buffett Has Now Given Record $48 Billion To Charity - Forbes

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   Did Warren Buffett give money to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?

   • Billionaire investor Warren Buffett donated more than $750 million in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the four foundations run by his family Wednesday, but unlike his annual gifts to charity each summer, the recipients didn’t include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

   Warren Buffett donates over $750 million to his family charities

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   Will Warren Buffett support philanthropy?

   • LOOKING FORWARD: Buffett has already committed much of his wealth to the Gates Foundation and the foundations run by his family, and given his long-practiced hands-off form of philanthropy, it is unlikely that he will be championing any new philanthropic endeavors on his own.

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9. apnews.com › article › warren-buffett-donationsWarren Buffett has given $50.7 billion toward historic ...

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   Jun 23, 2023 · FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett smiles during an interview in Omaha, Neb., May 7, 2018. After 17 years of steady payments, including those announced Wednesday, June 21, 2023, Buffett has given annual donations totaling $50.7 billion toward his historic multibillion-dollar pledges to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and to four foundations connected to his family.