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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Continuing Family Values
“It startedwith nuts. The pale boywith freckleswas an eagle scout on the streets of Seattle, selling kernels to raisemoney
for his troop.He could have eaten the nuts, or trousered the cash, but youngBillGates took his scouting seriously and is said
to have handed over all the proceeds to the troop. Thus begins the tale of history’s greatest philanthropist.”..
A Professional Management of Philanthropy
Despite being active in four areas, the Foundation’s primarymission is to improve global health by launchingmultiple
projects for expanding the use of basic public health tools worldwide to fund various research initiatives like the search for
an effectiveAIDS vaccine. To increase the effectiveness of these activities and impart awareness about the
problems faced by people across the globe, the Foundationworkswith a diversemix of partners like the governments, other
foundations, the private sector and non-profit organizations...
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