"Gates, Buffett ask rich for donations" by Associated Press | June 17, 2010
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. cofounder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are launching a campaign to get other American billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity....
The handful of billionaires approached so far have embraced the campaign....
That should be quite a few billions then.
Gates and Buffett are calling their campaign The Giving Pledge and ask contributors who make a pledge to do so publicly, with a letter explaining their decision.
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