Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Give ABC News $1.5 Million For Global Health Series

by Jon Bershad | 12:48 pm, October 6th, 2010

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (a charitable organization started by two people whose names escape me) is helping fund a year long series for ABC News. The expensive series, entitled “Be the Change: Save a Life,” will take viewers all around the world and focus “on the diseases and health conditions that disproportionately afflict the world’s poorest people.”

From ABC News:

“ABC News will invest more than $4.5 million in the series, covering personnel and production. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving a $1.5 million grant that will specifically help fund overseas travel and foreign production costs. As with all reporting and sponsorships, ABC News has complete editorial control over the content of the series.

‘We are, as always, committed to in-depth reporting on the global issues that matter to our audience — and health is a topic that touches every human being in the world,’ said ABC News President David Westin. ‘Support from the Gates Foundation will help us, literally, go that extra mile; we can cover the stories that ABC News is passionate about, stories that will connect our American audience with the struggles and solutions of families and doctors all over the planet, from Africa to South America to Asia. And, even more important, we can offer people the opportunity to get involved and truly save a life.’”

This isn’t the only way the Foundation is working to help cure diseases of the world. The organization will be giving $60 billion towards health and education. Last week, during an episode of 60 Minutes, Bill and Melinda (oh, that’s their names) announced the donations, citing that it would specifically be going towards helping countries riddled with diseases like malaria. Gosh, some people would have been happy if they just foot the bill for Diane Sawyer‘s plane tickets, but it looks like these folks are going to go the extra mile.

(h/t Poynter)

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right-is-wrong

Good for you Bill and Melinda.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.
The Real Royal King

Most commendable, Mr. and Ms. Gates. You are an example to all of us.
right-is-wrong

right-is-wrong said:
Good for you Bill and Melinda.

For you complete Morons I’ll make it
e_a_s_y

from the gates foundation website

Information for Grant Seekers

The foundation awards the majority of its grants to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations and other tax-exempt organizations identified by our staff. Grantees and partners then work with beneficiaries in the field.

If a Moron has a suggestion they have a page devoted to grantseekers.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grantseeker/Pages/overview.aspx
right-is-wrong

gordonbloyershow said:
Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.

For you complete Morons I’ll make it
e_a_s_y

from the gates foundation website

Information for Grant Seekers

The foundation awards the majority of its grants to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations and other tax-exempt organizations identified by our staff. Grantees and partners then work with beneficiaries in the field.

If a Moron has a suggestion they have a page devoted to grantseekers.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grantseeker/Pages/overview.aspx
right-is-wrong

yes i know
fallenchicken

gordonbloyershow said:
Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.

I wonder if he knows what global means.
AninTx

Evil greedy capitalists. They should be taxed 91% since they don’t really do anything with their wealth to help anyone. Afterall, I think there is a point when they’ve made enough.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/call-it-socialism-but-krugman-likes-91-tax-on-selfish-millionaires-they-dont-help-society-anyway/
justanotherconservative

gordonbloyershow said:
Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.

really. my 86 yr. old mother is in need of round the clock health care at a cost of 4 grand a month. too bad we don’t live in somalia or somewhere this money will end up at.
The Real Royal King

justanotherconservative said:
really. my 86 yr. old mother is in need of round the clock health care at a cost of 4 grand a month. too bad we don’t live in somalia or somewhere this money will end up at.

Have you contacted your local hospice. Perhaps, your mother is not at the hospice stage, but they can give you some really good referrals.

My prayers are with you and your mother. I know just how difficult it is. However, it’s also a wonderful blessing to be given the opportunity to take care of your mother.
The_Reasonable_Lib

justanotherconservative said:
really. my 86 yr. old mother is in need of round the clock health care at a cost of 4 grand a month. too bad we don’t live in somalia or somewhere this money will end up at.

I am in no way making fun or light of your situation, but doesn’t it suck that we don’t have some type of universal program that will take care of such exorbitant costs like that? And whereas your grandmother has lived to see 86, the areas where “this money will end up at” people don’t live to see 50.
Despite all of that, you and your grandmother will be in my prayers.
The_Reasonable_Lib

gordonbloyershow said:
Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.

…Wow you’re stupid.
alamo2

gordonbloyershow said:
Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.

Gordo, you are one strange person. The Gates Foundation has given an awful lot of money to charities in American, as well as in other countries. I gave what I could to help those in need after the earthquake in Haiti, through my church. I can only guess that you think that is a bad idea.
The_Reasonable_Lib

alamo2 said:
Gordo, you are one strange person. The Gates Foundation has given an awful lot of money to charities in American, as well as in other countries. I gave what I could to help those in need after the earthquake in Haiti, through my church. I can only guess that you think that is a bad idea.

You shouldn’t have donated to Haiti, that’s what Rush said ergo bloyer follows.
Gasket

gordonbloyershow said:
Thats nice. Instead of being “global citizens” it would be nicer if they gave $1.5 million for senior health services in his city. Try being a citizen of the United States.

Basil, Blower showing his vacuous mind once again.
greg454

I’m not going to tell a man how to spend his money, but if Gates has so much money to throw away on bullshit why not simply buy GM and turn it into a successful company? We need jobs, not charity!
alamo2

greg454 said:
I’m not going to tell a man how to spend his money, but if Gates has so much money to throw away on bullshit why not simply buy GM and turn it into a successful company? We need jobs, not charity!

Giving 60 billion dollars for health and education, in hopes of eradicating some diseases — that’s bulls%#t? I never thought of it that way.
Phocus2

Would you lefty types be happy if Limbaugh gave FOX News $1.5 million to produce a series on the global impact of abortion on babies or on the future health of the former parent-to-be?

Or how about $1.5 million to produce a series on how many people died needlessly of malaria due to the foolish lefty do-gooder ban on DDT?

This is Gates buying and ABC selling a network and it’s bullshit.
alamo2

Phocus2 said:
Would you lefty types be happy if Limbaugh gave FOX News $1.5 million to produce a series on the global impact of abortion on babies or on the future health of the former parent-to-be? Or how about $1.5 million to produce a series on how many people died needlessly of malaria due to the foolish lefty do-gooder ban on DDT? This is Gates buying and ABC selling a network and it’s bullshit.

I would be happy if Limbaugh gave anything to a useful charity outside of the military (where he does give). I would be happy if he did not disparage giving money to Haiti, since he has no soul.
murf

Top 10 celebrity charity givers

1.    Oprah Winfrey – $50.2 million
2.    Herb Alpert – $13 million
3.    Barbra Streisand – $11 million
4.    Paul Newman – $10.005 million
5.    Mel Gibson – $9,899,564
6.    Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – $8.4 million
=7. Lance Armstrong – $5 million
=7. Michael Jordan – $5 million
=7. Eric Lindros – $5 million
10. Rush Limbaugh – $4.2 million
Sean68

What’s he doing about world overpopulation? His wealth will always insulate himself and family from the consequences of third-world overpopulation and immigration patterns moving north to south, but what about the rest of us? He should be paying africans to stop producing children they can’t afford.
eingriff

Well, at least there are four new eyes in the picture.
Sean68

Sean68 said:
What’s he doing about world overpopulation? His wealth will always insulate himself and family from the consequences of third-world overpopulation and immigration patterns moving north to south, but what about the rest of us? He should be paying africans to stop producing children they can’t afford.

That should read south to north–i.e. the poor brown people flooding into europe and the US and Canada.
eingriff

right-is-wrong, thanks for the informative message.

I’ve seen a lot of right-is-wrong lately, probably no relation to you. It’s like the 1960′s & 70′s revisited.

Speaking for me and my ilk, the uninformed, misinformed and disinformed, we’re not morons; we’re idiots. Explain the difference; compare and contrast. And what is an idiot savant? And should somebody with a 69 IQ (no skanky jokes, please; the number was probably a mis-strike, leaving a number off the beginning, or the end) even address such as yourself, who can toss off a diagnosis of mental competence remotely?

Seriously (more or less) I hope that idiot savant (now you’ve got me doing it) William Henry Gates III will have some productive time devoted by some really, really, really, UNH! smart people to the question how philanthropists can avoid doing more harm than good with sudden infusions of large amounts of money, and anticipate collateral problems. Sorry, I suppose that’s S.O.P. for one who was able to inflict Mr. Allen’s Windows on the world, but it would be nice to know, or at least be told, that these are checklist items.

Apropos Windows, a haiku (which, I delight in thinking, probably breaks the rules for the genre’) to the same:

Sometimes it works
Sometimes it does not work
Windows is like that.

Explain at length all issues of copyright and trademark infringement and explain why a snap of Bill and Melinda Gates holding some happy, healthy, curious brown babies (lookin’ all around!) should not be excoriated as racist neo-colonist picture.
greg454

“Giving 60 billion dollars for health and education, in hopes of eradicating some diseases — that’s bulls%#t? I never thought of it that way.”

—Ever heard the expression give a man a fish and he eats for one day, teach him how to fish and he eats for life? I’d rather see him buying companies, creating jobs, and letting his employees give to charity if they choose rather than having him fiance the obscene salaries of the people running those so-called “charities.”

Tell me, if you want a house is Habitat for Humanity going to build you one or are you gonna get a job, save 20%, and get a loan?

Charities benefit a minuscule number of people, industry and enterprise benefit millions.
jk76

the last natural predator of humans. it sounds good and feels nice, healthcare, fighting against nature and of course death. I haven’t been to a doctor in 15 years, been sick several times. Why pay a fee and then get pushed some prescription on you that you pay for?

Maybe it’s just me. I accept that life isn’t perfect. Man-made things don’t work or operate 100% as it should. People get sick/diseases/genetic problems/accidents. Once everyone has ‘healthcare’, then what? There’s always something more to do right? Always more things or persons to control.
http://none pyrope

I am very glad that Mr. Gates has become as wealthy as he is; he has worked hard, applied his skills, and helped a lot of people with his products. I am very glad that he and his wife, Melinda, have shown compassion to give a loving home to two children who would otherwise likely never known such love. I am reasonably certain that Mr. and Mrs. Gates have shown a great deal of charity to many people, whose names we will likely never know. What most people do not understand is that he and his wife have done these charitable deeds of their own volition and out of the kindness of their hearts. Where, how, and to whom they choose to freely share their blessings is a matter left for them to decide. They are setting an example for all of us to follow. This is all that truly matters.