Melinda Gates To Resign From Gates Foundation (nbcnews.com) 42
Melinda French Gates announced today she is stepping down from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three years after announcing her separation from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. With her departure as co-chair, the foundation will change its name to Gates Foundation and Bill Gates will be its sole chairperson, said CEO Mark Suzman. NBC News reports: In a statement posted on her Instagram account, she said that as part of her agreement to step down from the foundation, she will retain $12.5 billion that she plans to put toward her ongoing work supporting women and families. "This is not a decision I came to lightly," French Gates wrote. "I am immensely proud of the foundation that Bill and I built together and of the extraordinary work it is doing to address inequities around the world." In a separate statement, Bill Gates said, "I am sorry to see Melinda leave, but I am sure she will have a huge impact in her future philanthropic work."
Now worth $75.2 billion, the Gates Foundation has over the course of its three-decade lifespan made $77.6 billion worth of grant payments, making it one of the largest donor organizations in the world, with a focus on health and developmental goals. It is one of the largest contributors to the World Health Organization, and played a key role in efforts to address the Covid pandemic. "After a difficult few years watching women's rights rolled back in the U.S. and around the world, she wants to use this next chapter to focus specifically on altering that trajectory," Suzman said of French Gates.
"I want to reassure you that the millions of people our work serves and the thousands of partners we work alongside can continue to count on the foundation. The foundation today is stronger than it has ever been."
"I know we all wish Melinda the best in her next chapter," he added, noting that French Gates "will not be bringing any of the foundation's work with her when she leaves."
Now worth $75.2 billion, the Gates Foundation has over the course of its three-decade lifespan made $77.6 billion worth of grant payments, making it one of the largest donor organizations in the world, with a focus on health and developmental goals. It is one of the largest contributors to the World Health Organization, and played a key role in efforts to address the Covid pandemic. "After a difficult few years watching women's rights rolled back in the U.S. and around the world, she wants to use this next chapter to focus specifically on altering that trajectory," Suzman said of French Gates.
"I want to reassure you that the millions of people our work serves and the thousands of partners we work alongside can continue to count on the foundation. The foundation today is stronger than it has ever been."
"I know we all wish Melinda the best in her next chapter," he added, noting that French Gates "will not be bringing any of the foundation's work with her when she leaves."
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All those Davos disciples have their wife leaving them, Gates, Trudeau, etc. Women seem to have more common sense.
It's the second divorce of the charity foundation (Score:2)
Melinda Gates wants to get control of as much of the Gates charitable foundation money as she can.
She can now parade around funding whatever causes she wants to and get all of the solo news headlines and solo 'look at me' validations she wants. Instead of giving "Bill" first billing on any charity work for the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation".
It would be interesting to find the IRS pub 590 tax returns for the foundations in a few years. https://www.irs.gov/charities-... [irs.gov]
Search for "Gates" and one of the
Mackenzie (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Mackenzie (Score:5, Informative)
From the story: the Gates Foundation has over the course of its three-decade lifespan made $77.6 billion worth of grant payments, making it one of the largest donor organizations in the world
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Is French Gates == Melinda Gates?
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It all happens again... (Score:1)
I think we've seen this before.... sometimes Melinda is close to Bill, today is one of the times that she moves away to focus on something else.
Anyway, I've got a certain "women's rights" issue really annoying me right now... so Melinda, if you can, call me.
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Like "RS 232 C"
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Hilarious. I wish I had mod points!
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I thought she became a serial killer with the 'three name' handle.
Can't you imagine ten generations from now, when the empowered women might have names like:
Tiffany Smith - Victor- Allen - Wattsworth - Dubois - Smith - Smith - Smith - Baker - Oglethorpe.
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What's interesting about your post following his is that it's a somewhat common thing among hispanics to have two non-hyphenated last names... You can tell from someone's ID because there are two name fields. Middle names get put into the first name field, so if you see two names in the last name field, they're both last names.
Spanish naming (Score:4, Informative)
Spanish (and Latin American and Filipino) names are [given names] [mother's paternal family name] [father's paternal family name]. After a woman marries, it changes to [given names] [father's paternal family name] [husband's paternal family name].
Consider former president of the Philippines Gloria Arroyo. Her name at birth was Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal. Her given names are "Maria Gloria", "Macapagal" is her father's paternal family name (Diosdado Pangan Macapagal), and "Macaraeg" is her mother's paternal family name (Evangelina Guico Macaraeg). After she married Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo, she took on his paternal family name, becoming Maria Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (dropping her mother's paternal family name). Their children had the family names Macapagal Arroyo at birth.
Re:looks like man (Score:4, Informative)
Melinda seriously looks like a man. What was Bill thinking? Fucking rich dork could have had anyone.
She was the PM of Microsoft Bob. It impressed Bill enough to get him to marry her. So, even though most people would consider Microsoft Bob a failure, it netted its PM Billions, which is better than 99.999% of all startups
I have always argued... (Score:2)
... that Microsoft BOB was the most successful software project of all time - for its PM, Melinda French Gates.
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Living rent free and all that
Facts?
Words that mean things?
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She could've written that sentence, "After a difficult year of watching women's rights rolled back but human rights expanded"
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Well then don't just whine, do something to stop the archaic islam problem!
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Well then don't just whine, do something to stop the archaic islam problem!
Islam is a problem in that regard, but so is christian fundamentalism. And it is even more archaic by definition.
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Let's go way back (I think this is from Firesign Theater) :
Hooray for the Sun God!
He sure is a fun God!
Ra, Ra,Ra!
I keep hearing that the ancient Egyptians treated men and women as equals so I keep thinking they treated people in general as equals.
Turns out that isn't true at all.
Do you wonder if the problem isn't a specific region or religion, the problem is inherent in every people and has been there always.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just depressed about people.
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Well then don't just whine, do something to stop the archaic islam problem!
Islam is a problem in that regard, but so is christian fundamentalism. And it is even more archaic by definition.
Let's all of us understand that the fundamentalists got their way because of the low turnout of Democrats. I always like to remind people that it takes two groups to score a quiet coup. Presuming that the "rollback" is the elimination of Roe v Wade, it appears to have energized women more than anything else could have done. I've long said that Republicans had a gold mine, of religious fundamentalists voting on one issue, and being dumb enough to continue even when in reality, only stupid Republicans actual
Bill and Epstein (Score:2, Insightful)
I suppose she got tired of dealing with Bill's pedophile face. Not even her foundation work could overcome the disgust.
not a decision I came to lightly (Score:1)
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..said her, while pocketing $12.5 billion she did not earn.
This. Is it her premise that she would be worth those billions had she not married a man who had the money?
Ironic she used the no fault divorce laws to fight against the injustices for women. But I'm sure if the situation was reversed, she would have gladly given Bill half of her fortune. Right? Right? https://www.washingtonian.com/... [washingtonian.com] From their headline: "More and More Women Are Paying Alimony to Failure-to-Launch Ex-Husbands. And They’re Really, Really Not Happy About It. “It’s n
What's wrong? (Score:1)
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I can't imagine why she's resign from a company whose main goal is to convince races of people and countries that can't get their shit together economically to not have as many kids. What a noble and inoffensive goal. Why did she leave? I can't figure it out.
That's the thing of it though. Western foundations like Gates and the Ford Foundation concentrate on lowering Western birthrates. The Third World is an afterthought to them as far as population goes. But Western birthrates are sinking, not growing, as it happens in affluent societies. If anything, the West needs a boost in its natural born birthrates; in Europe especially, the family trees are inverted now. So it's kind of maddening to see people like Melinda Gates so concerned if some woman in Poland or Wi
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I can't imagine why she's resign from a company whose main goal is to convince races of people and countries that can't get their shit together economically to not have as many kids. What a noble and inoffensive goal. Why did she leave? I can't figure it out.
That's the thing of it though. Western foundations like Gates and the Ford Foundation concentrate on lowering Western birthrates. The Third World is an afterthought to them as far as population goes. But Western birthrates are sinking, not growing, as it happens in affluent societies. If anything, the West needs a boost in its natural born birthrates; in Europe especially, the family trees are inverted now. So it's kind of maddening to see people like Melinda Gates so concerned if some woman in Poland or Wisconsin has more than two kids, while her crowd seemingly ignores the average Nigerian woman who's having 8 kids.
The really cool part is that without children, men have been emancipated because there is no reason to form a partnership. That is the final goal and legacy of feminism. There are some issues with baby rabies, and some women are not happy that they won't have a man in their life, but the overarching goal of sexual apartheid is chugging right along. They'll get used to being alone and childless, it is for their own good.
Giving all your money away to charity (Score:3)
Bill Gates, among other ultra wealthy people, commonly make statements saying that they will give all their money away to charity. This sounds selfless, until you consider the fact that the charity they choose to give their wealth to is one that they control. In short, these people really have no intention of giving up their wealth, and are merely making a statement about how they plan to deal with the two major problems in their life: managing money and their own mortality. They canâ(TM)t take it with them, and if they just stuff their money into gold bars, it will be taken from them when they die.
Charity for the ultra wealthy is not about selflessness. It is about immortality.