The Star – David Olive
“Bill Gates is the world’s greatest living philanthropist. Not because he and Melinda Gates, his wife and partner in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have donated $28 billion (U.S.) to charitable causes. (The couple has committed to donating their entire net worth, currently $76 billion, to take effect within 20 years of their death.) But because the Gates’ preoccupation has been with people who are struggling, and not with the safe, non-controversial recipients of most business-oriented donations, namely prestigious universities and museums, opera houses and ballet companies.” (more)