THE SLOGAN OF the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: "All Lives Have Equal Value" . . . In their latest act of global grace, the Gates said today at the World Economic Forum in Davos that they would donate $10 billion over 10 years to research and deliver vaccines to ailing children in poor countries . . . Nearly 9 million kids won't die of diarrhea, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and malaria if they get vaccinated this decade . . . “Vaccines are a miracle," Melinda Gates said. "With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime." . . . Generous U.S corporations gave $300 billion-plus in 2008 to worthy causes, says the Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy ("U.S. charitable giving estimated to be $307.65 billion in 2008"), and the Gates keep raising the bar for the United States and the world . . . In Act Two of his life, Bill Gates has evolved from a filthy rich brainiac and conquerer of the tech world to a righteous global role model, and it has been truly extraordinary to see . . . Can this man and his spouse be cloned? . . . Their crusade is worth emulating.
- Seattle Times Business of Giving blog, "$10 Billion Vaccine Pledge Shows Gates' Power to Set Global Agenda" by Kristi Heim.
- PerezHilton.com, "Bill Gates Plans to Save 8 Million Lives with $10 Billion!".
- Gates Foundation news release, "Bill and Melinda Gates Pledge $10 Billion in Call for Decade of Vaccines."
- World Economic Forum news release, "Despite global economic setbacks, partnerships further millennium development goals."
- Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy, "Disaster Giving: Haiti Earthquake Relief."
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