Aid while still alive
Warren Buffett, the world's second-richest person, is donating about $37 billion -- more than 80 percent of his fortune -- to foundations run by his friend Bill Gates and by the Buffett family.
The move is the biggest-ever single act of charitable giving in the United States.(...)
The Gates foundation is one of the world's richest philanthropic organizations.
It has committed millions of dollars to fighting diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, and to education and library technology in the United States.(...)
In a letter to Gates and his wife, Buffett wrote: "You have committed yourselves to a few extraordinarily important but underfunded issues, a policy that I believe offers the highest probability of your achieving goals of great consequence."
Pode ser que o gesto do democrata e apoiante de Hillary Clinton convença os participantes de iniciativas como o Live 8, que normalmente dão voz aos protestos anti-capitalistas e à acumulação de grandes fortunas (como as suas...), a se separarem voluntaria e altruisticamente da maioria dos seus milhões, em favor dos menos afortunados. No fundo, "putting their money where their mouth is".
Consulte o site da Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.