If the Koch Brothers would follow suit with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet instead of trying to run the country they could do much more good, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet both think the mega rich should pay more taxes. GAVI Alliance, expanding childhood immunization: $1.5 billion United Negro College Fund, Gates Millennium Scholars Program: $1.37 billion PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI): $456 million Rotary International, supporting polio eradication: $355 million Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching, supporting plans to transform how teachers are recruited, developed, rewarded, and retained: $290 million Hillsborough County Public Schools: $100 million Memphis City Schools: $90 million The College-Ready Promise, Los Angeles: $60 million Pittsburgh Public Schools: $40 million Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), improving seeds and soil for African farmers: $264.5 million Save the Children, saving newborn lives: $112 million United Way of King County: $85 million World Food Programme increasing small farmer income: $66 million TechnoServe, helping small coffee farmers improve crops and fetch higher prices: $46.9 million Heifer International, helping small farmers grow local and regional dairy markets: $43 million Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), a coalition of countries from the developing world making savings accounts, insurance, and other financial services available to people living on less than $2 a day: $35 million Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), testing and promoting the use of information and communications technologies to deliver microfinance products: $24 million Achieve, Inc. and the American Diploma Project Network, assisting states in aligning high school standards with the expectations of college and career: $23 million Opportunity Online Program, multiple library systems: $22.9 million Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, supporting the installation of public computers with Internet access, training for staff, and implementation support for public libraries: $19.8 million Opportunity International Inc. , developing and expanding a network of commercial banks in Africa: $15.4 million Gateway to College, expanding a program that enables colleges to serve students who need remedial academic help: $7.28 million Building Changes, helping create the Washington Families Fund and supporting efforts in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties to reduce family homelessness: $17.5 million
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:49:33 +0000
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