Why the focus on family homelessness?
WG: “There’s a process of going from just being a mailbox to which people send letters asking for money and a place that sits and thinks about ‘what do we want to do with our money?’ And of course that’s largely a function of how large a foundation is. It doesn’t have to get very large before you start to make some decisions about things you want to accomplish and things to you that seem to you to be important. And the family homelessness thing is a perfect example. It’s just something that touched Bill and Melinda’s heart. The idea of a family living in a two-door car for a week on end—they thought that’s just something that’s not acceptable and we’ve got some money here and we ought to spend some money to reduce the amount of that that’s going on in the world. It’s a charitable urge. I like to think about the fact that because of some check we wrote, there’s a woman and three kids that aren’t going to sleep in a car tonight. DB: “A very timely example, tonight I’ll be in Yakima for t
