Warren Buffett donated about $US2.2 billion ($2.9 billion) of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and US education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.
What Bill Gates' Goals are for the Gates Foundation.
"Some of the projects we fund will fail," the Gateses wrote in a message on their website. "We not only accept that, we expect it -- because we think an essential role of philanthropy is to make bets on promising solutions that governments and businesses can't afford to make. As we learn which bets pay off, we have to adjust our strategies and share the results so everyone can benefit."
Warren Buffett: "If you succeed in everything you're doing in charity,
you're attempting things that are too easy"
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