Bill Gates urges fellow billionaires to donate half their
fortune
http://elitechoice.org/2010/06/18/bill-gates-urges-fellow-billionaires-to-donate-half-their-fortune/
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have donated billions of
dollars from their fortunes. Now they are trying to urge other such
billionaires to donate atleast half their wealth to charities. It
seems that last year in a secret meeting, some of the world’s
leading philanthropists met to discuss this. According to gates,
this 50 percent should be the lower bar for their
generosity.
Warren Buffet is leading by example who apparently is
donating almost 99 percent of his total wealth! That is really
something. It’s another thing that even one percent of his total
fortune is more than what most of us make in our lifetime, but such
a gesture is nonetheless that very few would dare do. But Fortune
magazine has listed some likeminded billionaires like Eli and Edy
Broad, John and Ann Doerr, H.F. “Gerry” and Marguerite Lenfest and
John and Tashia Morgridge, who have pledged atleast 50 percent of
their net worth.
Bill and Melinda Gates plan to hold lots of dinners in the
future where they will invite some of the richest people in the
country and talk to them about what their money can do to help
others. If the couple’s plan actually works, then it would
translate into a lot of money being pumped into various causes.
Only time will tell if this bears fruit or not.
that say in Dharma, the more u give the more u get. be it
wealth, dharma or fearlessness. Dharma still top the 3 though. even
for just a single stanza. :)
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