How Do You Start A Charity Like Bill Gates?
Bill Gates started a sizable charity just a few years ago and, with the help of friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffet, grew it to the largest charity in the world. Starting something on the scale of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is difficult, but using their approach to charity is not. Identify global and local problems that a charity could help to improve with the right management and resource, as Bill Gates did as early as 1994 when he endowed the William H. Gates Foundation with $94 million and decided to focus on global health and community building in the Pacific Northwest of America. Broaden the fields of interest of your charity to make a specific aim into a general and more powerful one, like Gates did when he broadened the Gates Library Foundation into the Gates Learning Foundation. At the same time, consolidate your other efforts into one parent charity such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was created in 1999. Endow your charity with a good chunk