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Gates or Superman?

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date July 9, 2010

Bill Gates stole the show this week with his debut at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival. He appeared first in a cameo role in an advance screening of a forthcoming movie, “Waiting for Superman“. (No, he did not appear sporting a cape and red underpants, we are happy to say – and the movie did […]

Tags An Inconvenient Truth, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Harlem Children's Zone, Jeff Skoll, KIPP, Participant Media, Randi Weingarten

Philanthrocapitalism in the White House

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date June 30, 2009

“It is wonderful to see all these do-gooders in one room,” said Barack Obama, at a White House gathering on June 30th of leaders of America’s best non-profits. The occasion was the long-awaited launch of a $50m Innovation Fund to support the scaling up of the non-profit community’s best ideas for tackling America’s biggest problems […]