Bill Gates Accelerates Philanthropic Mission, Plans to Donate Over $200 Billion by 2045

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Bill Gates Accelerates Philanthropic Mission, Plans to Donate Over $200 Billion by 2045

 

Bill Gates, one of the most prominent philanthropists of our time and co-founder of Microsoft, has announced a bold plan to donate more than $200 billion over the next two decades. His goal: to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues—including poverty, malnutrition, and deadly diseases like polio—at an accelerated pace. By moving up his original timeline, Gates intends to give away nearly all of his fortune within his lifetime.

 

The 69-year-old billionaire explained his decision by citing the urgency of today’s global challenges. “Philanthropy really can change the world,” Gates said in an interview. He noted the impact of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over its 25-year history and expressed hope that this legacy would inspire others. “We’ve been able to have huge impact and so, hopefully, that inspires people both in global health and in other areas.”

 

The Gates Foundation, which he chairs, will now double its spending over the next 20 years and officially close by 2045. Previously, its charter required it to wind down operations 20 years after Gates’s death. This new timeline reflects his belief that the need for funding solutions to global problems has become more urgent than ever.

 

Gates expects to contribute more than $200 billion to this effort, a figure that includes his current wealth and the foundation’s endowment, which stood at $77.2 billion at the end of 2024. It also incorporates substantial contributions from longtime friend and philanthropist Warren Buffett. Even after this extraordinary level of giving, Gates will remain one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, with an estimated net worth of $108 billion according to the 2025 Forbes list. “I’ll still be comfortable,” he said, adding that his family will also be financially secure.

 

Despite remarkable progress in global health—including the halving of childhood mortality rates and effective treatments for HIV—recent cuts in global aid from wealthy nations have jeopardized these gains. Gates emphasized that he is not ramping up his giving simply to compensate for these governmental reductions. “I’m not being more generous because others are being less generous,” he clarified.

 

He stressed, however, that continued government support is vital, particularly in the effort to eradicate polio. His foundation has already invested $6.2 billion in the campaign. “Without the U.S. involvement and resources, it isn’t going to succeed,” Gates said.

 

Looking to the future, he warned that setbacks in global health are possible without renewed support. “Instead of childhood deaths going down from five million to four million over the next four years, unless we’re able to reverse a lot of these cuts, it will go back up to six million, and going backwards on that is crazy,” he said. He urged the U.S. Congress to maintain its budget for global health initiatives and mentioned his last conversation with President Trump took place in February.

 

Innovation, particularly artificial intelligence, is another key part of Gates’s vision for doing more with fewer resources. “AI will play a dramatic role in improving what we’re able to do even with very stringent financial constraints,” he said.

 

Gates’s philanthropic strategy has evolved significantly. While once focused on high-tech health interventions like vaccines, he now places a major emphasis on combating malnutrition, which he called one of his most exciting priorities. Malnutrition contributes to half of all deaths among children under five and causes lasting developmental harm. He also hopes to support a gene therapy that could offer a functional, affordable cure for HIV, especially for low-income nations.

 

Since its inception in 2000, the Gates Foundation has disbursed over $101 billion from Gates, his former wife Melinda French Gates, and Buffett. Their funds have supported innovations ranging from vaccines for meningitis and malaria to new treatments for tuberculosis and women’s health. Melinda French Gates co-chaired the foundation until last year, when she stepped down to pursue her own philanthropic goals.

 

Looking ahead, Gates expressed a desire for more billionaires to follow suit and contribute greater portions of their wealth to meaningful causes. “At that point, there’ll be lots of rich people who will be young and up-to-date about how to build an organization and what AI has done and what politics has done, and what part of the equity agenda remains incomplete,” he said.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Wall Street Journal  2025-05-10

 

 

[Tug]

I had the pleasure of watching this fine example of humanity on Colbert this morning.now there’s a dude that walks the talk leading by example. history will be kind to Mr gates deservedly so in my humble opinion.

[Tug]

And his ex wife is a fine example of humanity as well!

[spidermike007]

Gates is absolutely amazing and what his plans are for mankind are even more amazing. This world needs more super rich folks like him, and it makes me wonder if Thailand will ever see anyone of this sort, with a grand vision for helping humanity. 

 

It's your puts to start contrast to guys like Thaksin, Trump and Musk! Truly tiny men with no sense of obligation to society. 

[johng]

Gates said that vaccination was a way to reduce the human population.

[KhunLA]

How many more families can the Gates Foundation destroy ... 

 

... "The Gates Foundation focuses on world health and population and highlights its strategy of accelerating scientific discovery with reducing costs. Since the early 2000s, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (Gavi), Global Health Innovative Technology Fund and PATH, all heavily funded by the Gates Foundation, have been distributing vaccines and drugs to vulnerable populations in Africa and India. In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded experimental malaria and meningitis vaccine trials across Africa and HPV vaccine programs in India. All of these programs resulted in numerous deaths and injuries, with accounts of forced vaccinations and uninformed consent. Ultimately, these health campaigns, under the guise of saving lives, have relocated large scale clinical trials of untested or unapproved drugs to developing markets where administering drugs is less regulated and cheaper." ...

 

source:  https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&context=annlsurvey

[save the frogs]

here comes the anti-vax brigade .... 

 

he was buying up a bunch of US farmland at one point ... now he's giving it away? 

 

 

[impulse]

He can talk a good game, but we're still going to end up owning nothing and eating bugs if he gets his way.

 

[HK MacPhooey]

How about Bill Gates redistributes his wealth to all of us that have bought his overpriced flawed products over the last thirty or so years in compensation for the hundreds of man hours wasted by each of us trying to get it to work after countless re-boots, attempts at data recovery, software updates and the stress of ‘blue screen’ - instead he is giving our money to people who have never spent a dime on Microsoft.

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

 it makes me wonder if Thailand will ever see anyone of this sort, with a grand vision for helping humanity. 

Your prejudice and ignorance does not negate their existence  

 

I'm glad they are not following Gates foundation model of killing people through their philanthropy.   Here's just a few:

 

Joon Wanavit:

The 85-year-old founder of Hatari Electric donated a significant sum to the Ramathibodi Foundation, supporting the hospital's nursing school, medical learning center, and a new hospital building, according to the Bangkok Post. 

 

Harald Link:

He is a Thai-German industrialist and philanthropist, known for his charitable work, and was recognized as one of the world's billionaires. 

 

Charoen and Wanna Sirivadhanabhakdi:

The couple, through their foundation, provide medical supplies to hospitals and support cultural initiatives, as reported by Tatler Asia. 

 

Vikrom Kromadit:

The founder and chairman of Amata Corp was also recognized by Forbes Asia as one of its leading philanthropists

 

https://www.forbesthailand.com/category/heroes-of-philanthropy

 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, impulse said:

He can talk a good game, but we're still going to end up owning nothing and eating bugs if he gets his way.

 

 

Owning nothing might possibly cure the mental sickness prevalent in the world - which is always feeling like you don't have enough. And the burdens of ownership. It has already started as music is streamed online and we no longer have record collections. It's fun to have physical stuff, but also a burden. If you want to move, etc ... 

 

As far as eating bugs, it seems there aren't enough cows to feed the growing population. Let's hope AI can reproduce lab grown meat which is healthy and tastes like real meat. So far, lab grown meat efforts have failed. 

 

Or let's put more land for cows out there. As bugs are not healthy and it's sick to eat bugs. 

 

[spidermike007]

7 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Your prejudice and ignorance does not negate their existence  

 

I'm glad they are not following Gates foundation model of killing people through the philanthropy.   Here's just a few:

 

Joon Wanavit:

The 85-year-old founder of Hatari Electric donated a significant sum to the Ramathibodi Foundation, supporting the hospital's nursing school, medical learning center, and a new hospital building, according to the Bangkok Post. 

 

Harald Link:

He is a Thai-German industrialist and philanthropist, known for his charitable work, and was recognized as one of the world's billionaires. 

 

Charoen and Wanna Sirivadhanabhakdi:

The couple, through their foundation, provide medical supplies to hospitals and support cultural initiatives, as reported by Tatler Asia. 

 

Vikrom Kromadit:

The founder and chairman of Amata Corp was also recognized by Forbes Asia as one of its leading philanthropists

 

https://www.forbesthailand.com/category/heroes-of-philanthropy

 

Glad to hear. Based on their wealth I certainly hope that represents hundreds of millions of baht, each. 

[impulse]

10 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Owning nothing might possibly cure the mental sickness prevalent in the world - which is always feeling like you don't have enough. And the burdens of ownership. It has already started as music is streamed online and we no longer have record collections. It's fun to have physical stuff, but also a burden. If you want to move, etc ... 

 

I don't disagree, but it should be a personal choice.  Not mandated or coerced by people flying around in their private jets to private islands for private purposes.

 

 

[simon43]

Great news about eradicating Polio.  However, Polio has already been all but eradicated, thanks to a very effective vaccination program.  Where does it still exist?  In rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the goat-shagging men chase away the doctors, stopping them from eradicating the kids.

 

Therefore, I hope that Bill Gates funds a program to eradicate these men, because that will be the best way to make Polio an 'extinct' disease.....

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, impulse said:

 

I don't disagree, but it should be a personal choice.  Not a mandate by people flying around in their private jets to private islands for private purposes.

 

 

 

Again, the mental sickness regarding materialism is there is always a richer person in the room.

 

Whether it's your neighbor or the billionaire in private jets. Makes no difference. 

 

You won't have peace of mind worrying about guys in private jets. 

 

 

[Eric Loh]

One man cut global health fundings that will kill millions while the other donate his wealth to save lives. Is there any argument here on who is the despicable one. 

[impulse]

14 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

You won't have peace of mind worrying about guys in private jets. 

 

I don't worry about them except to the extent that they want to take away my rights under the disguise of do-gooding.  As if they what's best for me and can dictate their vision.  That's where I draw the line.  And it has nothing to do with envy.  I do okay. 

 

The private jets and multiple mansions are just conspicuous examples of the hypocrisy.

 

[KhunLA]

9 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Great news about eradicating Polio.  However, Polio has already been all but eradicated, thanks to a very effective vaccination program.  Where does it still exist?  In rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the goat-shagging men chase away the doctors, stopping them from eradicating the kids.

 

Therefore, I hope that Bill Gates funds a program to eradicate these men, because that will be the best way to make Polio an 'extinct' disease.....

If I had children, they definitely would receive any vaccines, especially polio.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/534403083/mutant-strains-of-polio-vaccine-now-cause-more-paralysis-than-wild-polio

 

More from days past:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1410842/#:~:text=Thirteen days after the first,caused some cases of polio).

 

I don't anyone in my childhood, youth, that hade the measles, mumps, chicken pox vaccine that didn't almost get all 3.    Same with the yearly flu vaccine.

 

 

 

 

[FlorC]

The ignorance of Gates' crimes against humanity on this forum is staggering.

 

Of course if you like depopulation and eugenics , he is your guy.

 

Don't ask me to list all his crimes , do your own research.

 

[newbee2022]

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