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Nov 16, 2017 · Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has purchased nearly 25,000 acres of land in southwestern Arizona for the construction of a brand-new "smart city," AZ Central reports. In conjunction with Belmont Partners, who holds the property, Gates's investment firm Cascade Investment LLC has committed $80 million to build a community composed of ...
Nov 23, 2020 · Avery Hartmans. Bill Gates is predicting that business travel and office work won't return to pre-pandemic levels in the future. The Microsoft founder and philanthropist believes that at around half of business travel will go, along with a third of working in the office. Many major companies are reconsidering the future of work.
Bill Gates. As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world.
May 22, 2020 · 5 book recommendations for the holidays from Bill Gates. My 2020 summer book recommendations. The Choice, by Dr. Edith Eva Eger. This book is partly a memoir and partly a guide to processing trauma. Eger was only sixteen years old when she and her family got sent to Auschwitz. After surviving unbelievable horrors, she moved to the United States ...
Apr 15, 2020 · The US is the biggest single donor to the Geneva-based WHO. It contributed more than $400 million in 2019, roughly 15% of the WHO's annual budget. The second-largest funder is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides 9.8% of the WHO's funds. The WHO launched an appeal in March for $675 million to help fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Oct 15, 2019 · In addition, Bill Gates co-chaired a simulation at the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017, resulting in the creation of the Epidemics Readiness Accelerator, a public-private platform to address effective readiness in issues including travel and tourism, supply chain and logistics, legal and regulatory, communications and data innovations.
Sep 19, 2018 · Rapid population growth in some of Africa’s poorest countries could put at risk future progress towards reducing global poverty and improving health, according to a report by the philanthropic foundation of Bill Gates. Demographic trends show a billion people have lifted themselves out of poverty in the past 20 years, the report found.
Aug 31, 2016 · Bill Gates is one of the most successful people in history, but even he admits his education could've been better. "I was good at math, but when it came to writing, I felt less sure of myself," Gates wrote in a recent Gates Notes blog post. "I'd be working on an essay and start wondering, 'Am I going to get an A or a C on this thing?
Sep 22, 2020 · Bill Gates: The 5 biggest setbacks COVID-19 has had on sustainable development. This article is published in collaboration with Business Insider. Bill Gates said "The COVID-19 pandemic has not only stopped progress — it's pushed it backwards." The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has released its annual Goalkeepers report, measuring global ...
Jun 3, 2020 · Visit the Great Reset microsite here. Hear Klaus Schwab on these podcast episodes: the Great Reset launch and his book. We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly, writes Schwab. The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible.
