China one of the first stops for Gates in new job (Seattle Times, 6/25/08) Seattle Times reporter interviews Gates on his new role and focus in China
A twist in how Wall St does philanthropy (Financial Times, 6/25/08)
Wall Street donors interest in international philanthropy vs traditional, domestic philanthropy
Top philanthropists donate $1.8b in 5 years (China Daily, 4/3/08)
Top 100 philanthropists given away $12.9b since 2003. Three-quarters of the money donated were channeled into foundations set up or monitored by the donors themselves. Experts attributed the weak development of the sector to the lack of public confidence in various charity foundations.
Mirco-Endowments
The unique Micro-Endowment model invests your donations and makes a percentage available to your charity or cause ever year. You can choose a number of charities and causes to support.
Creative Capitalism: new blog
Web experiment with purpose to produce a book on capitalism, philanthropy and global development to be publishe in fall of 2008. "The book takes as its starting point a speech Bill Gates delivered this January at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In it, he said that many of the world's problems are too big for philanthropy--even on the scale of the Gates Foundation. And he said that the free-market capitalist system itself would have to solve them. This is the public blog of a private website where a group of invited economists have spent the past couple of weeks criticizing and debating those claims."
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