Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime

Re:Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime by eli on Friday February 15, 2013 @09:21AM (#5226248)

I think the Gates Foundation is doing some amazing work.

But, uh, this blog post doesn't seem very well researched. It lists $18.5 billion for male circumcision in Africa, when the correct number is $18.5 million. Kinda makes me question the other numbers.

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Re:Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime by maxerickson on Friday February 15, 2013 @10:20AM (#5226548)

I imagine the $18.5 billion on male circumcision is wrong, but you are also wrong:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Grants-2008/Pages/Population-...

That's a single $50 million grant. Back out, create a search for Africa+HIV and you immediately see hundreds of millions of grants, so I imagine the bulk of the misstatement is from conflating HIV programs with those only targeting male circumcision.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grants/Pages/search.aspx

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Re:Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime by felixr on Friday February 15, 2013 @10:24AM (#5226571)

Yes, the donation for the Male Circumcision Consortium (MCC) was 'only' $18.5 million not billion.

The press release for this is here: http://fhi.org/en/AboutFHI/Media/Releases/081124_male_circum...

BTW, the press release says that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated the money. So this does not necessarily mean that the money came from Bill Gates. Plus, you would count it twice if you count his donations to the foundation and the donations from the foundation ...

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Re:Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime by kamjam on Friday February 15, 2013 @10:24AM (#5226567)

His TED talks were pretty good too, gives a good insight into the work.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

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