RICH PEDOPHILE "DONATES" 5 BILLION DOLLARS TO HIMSELF

Bill Gates made 2022’s biggest charitable donation: $5 billion
BY MARIA DI MENTO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEC. 30, 2022 10:28 AM PT
A $5-billion donation by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to the eponymous foundation he started with his ex-wife was the largest charitable gift of 2022, according to an annual ranking compiled by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

The publication’s annual list of the 10 largest charitable gifts announced by individuals or their foundations totaled nearly $9.3 billion in 2022. The contributions went to large, well-established institutions, three of them private foundations and three universities to support environmental sustainability, children’s mental health and stem-cell research. The other gifts backed cancer research and treatment, housing efforts, youth programs and reproductive health.

Two of the gifts exceeded $1 billion, and six of the eight donors (one donor made three gifts) are multibillionaires. The combined net worth of those six donors is slightly more than $325 billion.

Topping the list is Gates, who gave $5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to back the grant maker’s work in global health, development, policy and advocacy and U.S. education. Gates, whose net worth is estimated at $104 billion, attracted attention in July when he announced he was giving $20 billion to the foundation he runs with his former wife, Melinda French Gates. However, foundation officials confirmed in December that three-fourths of that $20 billion went toward paying off the $15 billion he and French Gates had pledged in July 2021. The remaining $5 billion was a new infusion to the foundation.

Ann and John Doerr came in second with a $1.1-billion donation to Stanford University through their Benificus Foundation to launch the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, an effort to tackle the world’s most urgent climate and sustainability challenges. The new school will focus on these areas of scholarship: climate change; Earth and planetary sciences; energy technology; sustainable cities; the environment; food and water security; and human society, behavior and health.

The new school will house several academic departments and interdisciplinary institutes. It will also be home to a “sustainability accelerator,” which, among other efforts, will award grants to researchers and others to develop new technologies in environmental sustainability and related areas, advance new policies and support partnerships.

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