Pacific Northwest Press Releases

3.9.00

FilmAid Receives $5,000 from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Help Create "A Night to Remember"

3.7.00

Book-It Repertory Theatre Receives $45,000

2.25.00

Secret Harbor School Receives $25,000 Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

2.23.00

Refugee Womens Alliance Receives Gift from Gates Foundation

1.13.00

Foster Parents Association of Washington State Receives $180,000 Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

12.29.99

Early Head Start Family Center Receives $150,000 Renovation Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

12.20.99

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gives $30 Million to United Way of King County

12.14.99

King County Sexual Assault Resource Center Gets Support from Bill and Melinda Gates

11.12.99

Accounting Career Awareness Program Receives $30,400 Grant From Bill and Melinda Gates

11.11.99

Ruth Dykeman Children's Center Receives $125,000 Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

11.9.99

Outside In Receives $1 Million Capital Campaign Boost from Bill and Melinda Gates

10.27.99

Two Northwest Software Families Make Major Gifts to OMSI

10.19.99

Helping Hands for the Disabled Receives $20,000 Gift to Replace Floor Covering in Three Homes

10.18.99

Seattle Art Museum Endowment Receives $10 Million Pledge from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

10.5.99

UW Computer Science & Engineering Awarded $3 Million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

10.1.99

Little Red School House Announces $500,000 Gift From Bill and Melinda Gates

9.30.99

Dress For Success. Seattle Receives Grant for General Operating Support from Bill and Melinda Gates

9.29.99

Emerald Heights Academy Receives $40,644 Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates

9.8.99

Supporters of the Center and the SeaFirst Performing Arts Center Receive a $300,000 Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

9.8.99

The Washington News Council Announces a $225,000 Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

8.29.99

Seattle Milk Fund Receives a $10,000 Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates

8.19.99

Museum of Flight Receives $141,000 Match from Bill and Melinda Gates

8.12.99

Northwest Kiwanis Camp for Special Needs Children Receives Big Boost with Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates

8.9.99

Neighborhood House Receives $125,000 Operating Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates

8.4.99

Urban Enterprise Center Receives $20,000 Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates

8.2.99

Washington Commission for the Humanities Receives $30,000 Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

7.12.99

Admiral Theatre Receives $300,000 from Bill and Melinda Gates

6.22.99

Waterfront Park Project Receives New Contributions Including $4 Million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

6.18.99

Bill and Melinda Gates' $250,000 Gift Moves Loomis Forest Fund Closer to Goal

6.17.99

Columbia Valley Garden Elementary School Receives $5,000 Gift From Bill and Melinda Gates

6.16.99

The Chess Mates Foundation Unveils $10,000 Gift From Bill and Melinda Gates

6.14.99

Holy Family School Receives $200,000 Gift from Bill and Melinda Gates

6.10.99

Pacific Science Center Completes Three Capital Expansion Projects in 1998-99 Fiscal Year

6.9.99

Gates Foundation Contributes $1 Million to Scientific Research

6.7.99

William H. Gates Foundation Grant Largest Gift in Oregon

5.25.99

Zion Preparatory Academy Announces $5.5 Million Contributed Toward Capital Campaign Goal of $10 Million

5.12.99

Cancer Lifeline Dedicates New Home As Dorothy S. O'Brien Center

5.10.99

YouthCare Completes $4.8 Million Capital Campaign and New Facility

5.4.99

Four Winds*Westward Ho Camp Receives $100,000 Grant from the William H. Gates Foundation

11.24.98

Seattle Public Library Receives Largest Ever Private Gift: $20 Million Gift Kicks Off Capital Campaign

6.23.98

William H. Gates Foundation Makes $1 Million Gift to Bellevue Art Museum

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), March 16, 2000

Answers

Thanks Cherri for this upbeat post! Nice to see their effort on behalf of others!

-- suzy (suzy@nowhere.com), March 16, 2000.

I heard when he said he had enough and was giving back. If others did the same this world would be a better place. There isn't anything wrong with being rich, it's only how you use it!

-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), March 16, 2000.

If I made a FEW software programs & tricked, sold & connived so that I sold MILLIONS of ocpies of them at HUNDREDS of dollars EACH, I'd give to charity too. Whether I'd show off and tell the world about it, I don't know...

-- IN (IN@dot.com), March 16, 2000.

ET,

Many well-off people do things that you never hear about. Every Saturday morning I have breakfast with a small group of Ham Radio guys. We fund the dues for Elementary and High school students so they can belong to local radio clubs. We do it anonamously.

We find cheap used E capable computers to give to Seniors so they can regain contact with people when they become housebound.

If we hear of a Senior that temporarily is up against it because of health or house repair costs we will send him a gift certificate for a couple months of groceries.

Thousands of people in this country do the same kind of things. Small and not in any way newsworthy. You never hear about it, but it happens.

We are not an organized club, just a bunch of guys who have a little extra and feel good about helping. It so happens that 90% of us are Masons but it's a nice break from plotting the takeover of the world.

-- Chief (bmc@sealret.com), March 17, 2000.

IN, no matter how mr. gates made his money the fact is that he is a true example of the free enterprise system. it is interesting to note that most really, really wealthy people in this country do give large amounts of money to charities or other philanthropic activities. whether this is due to guilt, tax laws or true interest in those less fortunate really doesn't matter. what matters is that it occurs.

it is just one more example of those actions which i catergorize as "Isn't America Great?"

-- lurker finally exposed (jbrown@kdsi.net), March 17, 2000.