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Gates Foundation Gift Benefits State's Libraries
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SOUTH CHARLESTON - Perhaps the only thing harder than building a great fortune is giving one away.
Million by million, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given portions of the couple's Microsoft fortune to an assortment of causes. Earlier this month, libraries in West Virginia received a $424,000 boost from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda.
During a visit to the Mountain State, Melinda Gates announced the Gates Foundation would give $5.8 million for g...
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55 Good Things ABOUT WEST VIRGINIA: Hinton Native Spends Career Helping to Change the World
The State Journal
; HINTON - A woman who grew up in southern West Virginia is helping change the world. Sylvia Mathews, a native of Hinton, is a top executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a $29 billion philanthropic organization created by the founder of Microsoft Inc. and his wife. Mathew's official
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Gates Foundation adding to Library Commission gift
Charleston Gazette
; cbroadwater@wvgazette.com They wanted to get libraries in all 50 states online. Today, Melinda Gates will see one of thousands of projects she and her husband, Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates, helped to fund come full circle. Melinda Gates will be at the Sissonville Library this morning to announce a
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Gates Foundation gives $424,000 to state libraries
Charleston Gazette
; cbroadwater@wvgazette.com Donna Salisbury was a volunteer at the tiny Clay County Public Library when the "Gateses" arrived. "We got three computers with the grant and we'd always say, 'Oh, the Gateses are full [all in use she said at a Wednesday talk that featured Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft
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West Virginia libraries receive grants to improve computer access
Charleston Gazette
; The West Virginia Library Commission has received a $981,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to upgrade computers previously granted by the foundation in 166 libraries. The grants will allow the libraries to sustain free, high-quality access to computers and the Internet for their
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Gates gives it up for Chicago; Foundation has given $67 million to fund city's public schools.(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided finance to Northwestern University Settlement Association)
Crain's Chicago Business
; Byline: SAMANTHA STAINBURN For the Northwestern University Settlement Assn. in Chicago, good news began with a phone call from Seattle. The caller, a representative from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, eventually gave ...
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