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...At the same time, Buffett’s decision to donate the fortune he has tied up in Berkshire shares to charities, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named...
...MacKenzie Scott has also announced that she will be donating to Harambee....
...Melinda French Gates has already distributed more than $65.6bn in grants through the Gates Foundation to various different causes....
...Scott’s giving had been a “galvanising” factor for philanthropy, Suzman said, but “it’s not our model”....
...In some ways Scott has been as radical a philanthropist as Bill Gates and his former wife Melinda French were at the start of the century, with their strategic focus and high volume of giving....
...Led by the notable example of MacKenzie Scott, the wealthy and generous are increasingly anxious to accelerate their spending....
...Melinda now joins Laurene Powell Jobs and MacKenzie Scott, formerly Bezos, in a unique club: they are tech billionaires’ former spouses who are suddenly unbound and free to chart their own philanthropic...
...Scott and Sandberg are 51, and Chan just 36....
...Depending on the terms of any divorce settlement, Melinda could immediately rival Scott, whose fortune is put by Forbes at $60bn, for influence in the philanthropy world in her own right....
...But things have changed: in 2010 he joined with Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates to create the Giving Pledge: to date, 231 philanthropists from 28 countries have signed....
...Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, and MacKenzie Scott, finalised their divorce in 2019. The couple had worked closely together in the early days of the ecommerce company....
...Murdoch has far fewer resources than reform-minded philanthropists such as Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs, or big donors like Charles Koch and Miriam Adelson who blur the lines...
...leasing of federal lands for oil, gas and coal — something Mr Biden promised on the campaign trail — to follow swiftly.Such a ban would reduce US oil production by up to 4 per cent a year, according to Scott...
...China contributed about $85m, less than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK and Rotary International....
...Mr Trump’s move was also condemned by Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and billionaire head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....
...“Morrison your climate crisis destroyed my home,” read a message to prime minister, Scott Morrison, painted on the charred remains of a house dumped outside parliament this week....
...Scott Gottlieb, who was the first head of the Food and Drug Administration under Mr Trump, says swine flu showed how the “utopian view” that countries could give a vaccine away before satisfying their local...
...He prepared models for Bill and Melinda Gates, for example, who unsurprisingly wanted a 3D computer rendering of his plans....
...Scott Gottlieb, the new FDA commissioner, has called it his top priority....
...(Motherboard) Soundbites “It could be the dumbest decision to come out of the U.S. government in the last 50 to 60 years…It’s about like the Dred Scott decision.”...
...But sometimes, pace F Scott Fitzgerald, not that different....
...Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. You seem to be disproving him. What drove you to your second act? Why are you focusing so intensely on philanthropy?...
...GMG, which is owned by the Scott Trust, has the mission of preserving the Guardian’s independence in perpetuity. “It’s for the Guardian to influence society at large, if they so wish....
...“The global landscape has shifted pretty radically,” says Scott Morris, a senior associate at the Centre for Global Development and an expert on issues relating to international financial institutions....
...Intuit co-founder Scott Cook gave $1m. Sean O’Sullivan, an Irish venture capitalist, has committed $5m. But big donations from tech moguls are not enough to explain Khan’s recent success....
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