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FILE -Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Gates urged world leaders not to give up on the goals they set to reduce hunger and poverty despite huge recent setbacks documented in a new report released Tuesday, Sept. 13 by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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Bill Gates: Technological innovation would help solve hunger
By THALIA BEATY - Associated Press
Mon,09/12/22-5:58PM , 98 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What’s also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released Tuesday by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Program Director Alan Arce, right, chats with siblings Moises, left, and Yancy Rodriguez at a Friends of the Children office Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Lancaster, Calif. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $44 million to the Oregon-based mentoring organization, Friends of the Children, which supports children at risk of entering the welfare system by pairing them with a longtime mentor. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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MacKenzie Scott supports child mentors with $44 million gift
By THALIA BEATY - Associated Press
Thu,08/25/22-7:06AM , 72 Reads
LANCASTER, Ca. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $44 million to the Oregon-based mentoring organization, Friends of the Children, which supports children at risk of entering the welfare system by pairing them with a longtime mentor.
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Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas Capitol, Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Austin, Texas. When a leaked draft decision signaled the end to federal protections for the right to an abortion in the U.S., donors clicked on donations buttons and mailed checks in a spasm of fury. The “rage giving” has given abortion funds a temporary financial boost. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Abortion funds feel frustration, gratitude at 'rage giving'
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Fri,06/10/22-10:33AM , 81 Reads
Casie Pierce doesn't usually work Fridays. But on the Friday after the draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v.
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Members of Congress give Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a standing ovation before he speaks in a virtual address to Congress in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center Congressional Auditorium in Washington, on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Ukraine, which has waged a staunch defense against Russian invasion, says it has pioneered a new source of financial support: People around the world who have donated millions of dollars directly to its war effort via cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

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Crypto for Ukraine provides a flow of war-related assistance
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Fri,03/25/22-9:57PM , 85 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Ukraine, which has waged a staunch defense against Russian invasion, says it has pioneered a new source of financial support: People around the world who have donated millions of dollars directly to its war effort via cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
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