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WARREN BUFFETT PHILANTHROPY

Warren Buffett donated an astounding $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in June 2006. Buffett’s donation, aimed at helping the Gates fund education and health initiatives, has earned him top honors in BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists.

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technology, but still trapped in very, very old social models that see them in terms of tragedy and charity and need...

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on any gains since you'd bought the stock. That method has worked well for wealthy philanthropists like Warren Buffett,...

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funds. So their 20 percent cut of profits is closer to a commission than a true capital gain. Warren Buffett has...

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a little bit of an inkling of that, a little bit of a forecast, from none other than Warren Buffett over the weekend.

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the large holding company steered by Warren Buffett, reported Saturday that its far-flung...

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CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-Chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

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industrial heavyweight Cao Dewang's pledge of using 70 percent of his company's stocks to establish a charity...

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longstanding tradition of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting has been the yearly dinner hosted by Alice Schroeder,...

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for the annual letter in an interview seven months ago, Gates said he would borrow the spirit of Warren Buffett's...

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following the issuance of his first 'annual letter' as co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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wrote. Gates and his wife, Melinda, lead the nation's largest charitable foundation, which focuses most of its...

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his earlier career in the software industry. Gates said he got the idea for an annual letter from Warren Buffett, who...

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but which mushroomed from $100tn in 2002 to more than $500tn five years later. Billionaires George Soros and Warren...

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but which mushroomed from $100tn in 2002 to more than $500tn five years later. Billionaires George Soros and Warren...

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tycoons advising -- and funding -- him. Despite funding the majority of his presidential run with paltry US$5 donations...

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With his massive pledge to the Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett is changing the way people think about giving STORY...

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With the recession having a negative impact on corporate earnings and philanthropy, Bill Gates plans to weigh in on...

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his surroundings or fine living. Before the global recession (which reduced his fortune by around $16.

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our health, our security and our lives connected in unprecedented ways. Those of us in the nonprofit and charity sector...

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to meet Angelina Jolie.) Matthew Bishop: Obviously, I was after that [laughs]. I actually started out thinking about...

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