The Gates Foundation’s Leveraged Philanthropy : Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts - Living in Dialogue

The Gates Foundation’s Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
►http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html

It’s hard to think of the #Gates Foundation’s $26 billion leverage effort as “a little money”, especially since it’s been spread over the globe to gain access to vastly more resources than it contributes, including U.S. tax dollars, the foreign exchange of emerging African nations, and United Nations funds for international development and world health.

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The Gates Foundation’s Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
►http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html

Gates’ leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership
to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.