Bill and Melinda Gates

Wow, from Corporate Titan, admired and reviled, to latter-day saint?

10 billion dollars. billion.

Seems like he also has an amazing partner in Melinda.

Color me impressed.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/01/29/davos.bill.gates.donates/index.html?hpt=T...

That's gotta piss Jenny McCarthy off.

2: Well, she does have a body count and Bill Gates doesn't. So that's something.

>1 Atomicmutant: Also impressive: the fourteen dollars and change that homeless people in Baltimore contributed to earthquake relief in Haiti. (Ditto Liberia's $50K.) Apparently, lower income people are on average more generous percentage-wise than their more comfortable brethren. (Which is not to take away from the Gates's generosity!)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.homeless30jan30,0,3352899.story

Edit: Liberia contributed $50K to Haiti, not $15K.

Then you have people like Gordon Elwood, an eccentric miser in southern Oregon, who "drank outdated milk, lived in an unheated house, and held up his second-hand pants with a bungee cord". He kept too many cats, traveled everywhere by bicycle, and frequently accepted handouts from the Salvation Army, YMCA, and the Red Cross. When Elwood died in 2000, he left over $9 million to social service agencies in southern Oregon.

I'm particularly impressed by their goal of 90% coverage. This could be enough to eradicate some diseases entirely, by making it impossible for them to spread.