Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has a 15-year endowment of U.S. $44.3 billion is a self-proclaimed frugal clothes and jewelry buyer. The U.S. $28 billion that Gates himself has donated to the largest private foundation in the world could have bought him 26 million pair of Versace’s most expensive jeans, but he’d rather focus on seeing human society accomplish the 3 following things in the next 20 years:
1. “First is an energy innovation to lower the cost and get rid of green house gases. This isn’t guaranteed so we need a lot of public and private risk taking.”
2. “Second is progress on disease particularly infectious disease. Polio, Malaria, HIV, TB, etc.. are all diseases we should be able to either eliminate of bring down close to zero. There is amazing science that makes us optimistic this will happen.”
3. “Third are tools to help make education better - to help teachers learn how to teach better and to help students learn and understand why they should learn and reinforce their confidence.”
This post will provide a deeper insight on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, taking the foundation’s 2014 transparent contribution graphs and making them interactive in Plotly.
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1. What Exactly are the Gates’ Funding?
Total funding in 2014 approached $4 billion, making the Gates’ Foundation the second most generous philanthropists in America to Warren Buffet.
2. A Global Reach
$442,290,000 was put toward developing agriculture, a sector that could be threatened by global warming.
3. Going to Battle Against HIV, Malaria
The Foundation donated U.S. $1.1 billion to health-related issues in 2014. 38% of that amount (or $423,320,000) was aimed at HIV and malaria
4. Contributing in the Fight Against Tobacco
$30,000,000 was contributed toward tobacco control and for good reason – “overall mortality among both male and female smokes in the United States is about 3x higher than that among similar people who never smoked.”
5. Improving the U.S. Education System
The Gates’ contributed a generous $405,270,000 to the hotly debated U.S. education system.
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