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Article #753Re: Billionaire Gates: "Not $00.1 for poor white kids!"
From: Karin Youngberg
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:12
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:12
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Jim@Manson.com wrote: > Considering Gates has no obligation to give anything to anyone he's > pretty much free to do whatever he wants with it. > > If he wants to give it all to left handed Lithuanians with one short > leg he gets to do exactly that. > > That's the wonderful thing about donating to charity- you give to the > groups/people that you want to give to. > > So quit whining, set up your own foundations, go funds raise for > disadvantaged rural youth and quit worrying about what Gates is doing. People who worry too much about others should look in the mirror first > It's a ton of money," said Rafael of the United Way, which received $30 million from the Gates > Foundation two years ago and will soon receive a $5 million matching donation. > > Total charitable giving in the United States tallied more than $203 billion in 2000, according to > the American Association of Fundraising Counsel. The counsel named 26 "superdonors" who > gave $50 million or more. The Gateses gave $5 billion. > > "They're like many people who want to do whatever they can to help others," Neilson said. "They > are just doing it on another level." > > Watching them can be blinding, like looking into the sun. But rather than turn away, we should > feel the warmth and do the same - at whatever level. >
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