ثانى اغنى اغنياء العالم يتبرع بثروته لمؤسسة بل قتس الخيرية

Warren Buffett ح يتبرع ب 85% من ثروته . و اغلب هذه ال 85 % ح تمشى ل Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
مليونيرات البورد ؟؟ ح تتبرعوا متين ؟؟؟
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/chari...ne/index.htm?cnn=yes


Warren Buffett gives away his fortune
FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
By Carol J. Loomis, FORTUNE editor-at-large
June 25, 2006: 1:42 PM EDT
NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - We were sitting in a Manhattan living room on a spring afternoon, and Warren Buffett had a Cherry Coke in his hand as usual. But this unremarkable scene was about to take a surprising turn.

"Brace yourself," Buffett warned with a grin. He then described a momentous change in his thinking. Within months, he said, he would begin to give away his Berkshire Hathaway fortune, then and now worth well over $40 billion.

This news was indeed stunning. Buffett, 75, has for decades said his wealth would go to philanthropy but has just as steadily indicated the handoff would be made at his death. Now he was revising the timetable.

"I know what I want to do," he said, "and it makes sense to get going." On that spring day his plan was uncertain in some of its details; today it is essentially complete. And it is typical Buffett: rational, original, breaking the mold of how extremely rich people donate money.

Buffett has pledged to gradually give 85% of his Berkshire stock to five foundations. A dominant five-sixths of the shares will go to the world's largest philanthropic organization, the $30 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose principals are close friends of Buffett's (a connection that began in 1991, when a mutual friend introduced Buffett and Bill Gates).

The Gateses credit Buffett, says Bill, with having "inspired" their thinking about giving money back to society. Their foundation's activities, internationally famous, are focused on world health -- fighting such diseases as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis -- and on improving U.S. libraries and high schools.

Up to now, the two Gateses have been the only trustees of their foundation. But as his plan gets underway, Buffett will be joining them. Bill Gates says he and his wife are "thrilled" by that and by knowing that Buffett's money will allow the foundation to "both deepen and accelerate" its work. "The generosity and trust Warren has shown," Gates adds, "is incredible." Beginning in July and continuing every year, Buffett will give a set, annually declining number of Berkshire B shares - starting with 602,500 in 2006 and then decreasing by 5% per year - to the five foundations. The gifts to the Gates foundation will be made either by Buffett or through his estate as long as at least one of the pair -- Bill, now 50, or Melinda, 41 -- is active in it.

Berkshire's price on the date of each gift will determine its dollar value. Were B shares, for example, to be $3,071 in July - that was their close on June 23 - Buffett's 2006 gift to the foundation, 500,000 shares, would be worth about $1.5 billion. With so much new money to handle, the foundation will be given two years to resize its operations. But it will then be required by the terms of Buffett's gift to annually spend the dollar amount of his contributions as well as those it is already making from its existing assets. At the moment, $1.5 billion would roughly double the foundation's yearly benefactions. But the $1.5 billion has little relevance to the value of Buffett's future gifts, since their amount will depend on the price of Berkshire's stock when they are made. If the stock rises yearly, on average, by even a modest amount - say, 6% - the gain will more than offset the annual 5% decline in the number of shares given. Under those circumstances, the value of Buffett's contributions will rise.

Buffett himself thinks that will happen. Or to state that proposition more directly: He believes the price of Berkshire, and with it the dollar size of the contributions, will trend upward - perhaps over time increasing substantially. The other foundation gifts that Buffett is making will also occur annually and start in July. At Berkshire's current price, the combined 2006 total of these gifts will be $315 million. The contributions will go to foundations headed by Buffett's three children, Susan, Howard, and Peter, and to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.

This last foundation was for 40 years known simply as the Buffett Foundation and was recently renamed in honor of Buffett's late wife, Susie, who died in 2004, at 72, after a stroke. Her will bestows about $2.5 billion on the foundation, to which her husband's gifts will be added. The foundation has mainly focused on reproductive health, family planning, and pro-choice causes, and on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Counting the gifts to all five foundations, Buffett will gradually but sharply reduce his holdings of Berkshire (Charts) stock. He now owns close to 31% of the company-worth nearly $44 billion in late June - and that proportion will ultimately be cut to around 5%. Sticking to his long-term intentions, Buffett says the residual 5%, worth about $6.8 billion today, will in time go for philanthropy also, perhaps in his lifetime and, if not, at his death.

Because the value of Buffett's gifts are tied to a future, unknowable price of Berkshire, there is no way to put a total dollar value on them. But the number of shares earmarked to be given have a huge value today: $37 billion.

That alone would be the largest philanthropic gift in history. And if Buffett is right in thinking that Berkshire's price will trend upward, the eventual amount given could far exceed that figure.

So that's the plan. What follows is a conversation in which Buffett explains how he moved away from his original thinking and decided to begin giving now. The questioner is yours truly, FORTUNE editor-at-large Carol Loomis. I am a longtime friend of Buffett's, a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder, and a director of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.

دى عليهم بس (المغتربين برة الشغلانية دى) اها
كلو واحد حيكون نصيبة الف دولار . انا بس داير
اشوف المبلغ دا قدر شنو.

اتمنى انو دا يوثر ايجابا فى حل ازمات التغذية والادوية
للمحتاجين وياريت كلو زول اقلل مصاريفو واتبرع ولو بى
تمرات فى تساوى الكتير وتجعل للحياة طعم اجمل

وشكرا على طرح الموضوع


بى المناسبة هو اغنى زول فى العالم منو

ali elhassan
اغنى زول فى العالم Bill Gates
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2003/02/26/billionaireland.html

Quote: دى عليهم بس (المغتربين برة الشغلانية دى) اها كلو واحد حيكون نصيبة الف دولار . انا بس داير اشوف المبلغ دا قدر شنو.

الاخت اسمارت

معليش الكلام الفوق دة ناقص جزئ كبير
وما اكتشفتو الا هسع.

شكرا علىالرابط

Gates: Buffett gift may help cure worst diseases
Oracle of Omaha, Microsoft co-founder and wife announce donations
The Associated Press


Updated: 2:55 p.m. PT June 26, 2006
NEW YORK - Warren Buffett’s contribution of about $1.5 billion a year to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be used to seek cures for the world’s worst diseases and improve American education, Bill Gates said Monday.

“There is no reason we can’t cure the top 20 diseases,” Gates said while appearing with Buffett during a donation ceremony at the New York Public Library.

The Buffett and Gates families, as well as onlookers, were beaming as the so-called Oracle of Omaha officially made his benevolence a reality.

“There is more than one way to get to heaven, but this is a great way,” said Buffett. He presented the biggest gift to Gates, and $1 billion donations to his own foundation and the foundations run by each of his three children.

“It’s easy to sign. I just signed, “Dad,”’ Buffett joked while handing one of the donation documents, a stock transfer letter, to his daughter, Susie Buffett.

Buffett said he had made some suggestions about how to use the money. But “I think their judgment above the ground is going to be a lot better than mine 6 feet below the ground,” he said at a later appearance.

Buffett said his children have known all along that much of their family’s wealth would be given back to society. “They consider themselves lucky. They don’t consider themselves quite as lucky as if they had a father with a different view.”

In a letter dated Monday, Buffett had informed Bill and Melinda Gates that the first donation of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock would go to the foundation next month.

The foundation, which has assets of $30.6 billion, spends money on world health, poverty and increasing access to technology in developing countries. In the United States, it focuses on education and technology in public libraries.

The money from Buffett, who is 75 but considered strong and healthy, comes with a significant catch. The letter says Buffett wants all his money to be distributed in the year it is donated, not added to the foundation’s assets for future giving. The foundation gave away $1.36 billion in 2005, so the Buffett commitment would effectively double its spending.

Buffett had said he would give away 12,050,000 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the five foundations. The shares fell $22.01, or 0.7 percent, to $3,049 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The gifts would be worth nearly $37 billion, which represents the bulk of the $44 billion that Buffet’s stock holdings are worth today. Five-sixths of the shares will be earmarked for the Gates Foundation.

In his letter to the Gates Foundation, Buffett said he admired the foundation and wanted to extend its “future capabilities.” Until now, all the money given away by the Gates Foundation has come from the couple.

In a statement over the weekend, Bill and Melinda Gates spoke of their relationship with Buffett over the past 15 years and his influence on their philanthropy.

“Warren has not only an amazing intellect but also a strong sense of justice. Warren’s wisdom will help us do a better job and make it more fun at the same time,” they said. The couple said they were “awed” by Buffett’s decision.

The Buffett pledge also requires that Bill and Melinda Gates remain alive and active in the policy-setting and administration of the foundation. Buffett plans to give each foundation 5 percent of his total pledge each year in July.

Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, announced earlier this month that he would be stepping back from his day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft Corp. in July 2008 so he can spend more time on the Seattle-based foundation. The foundation followed his announcement by saying Melinda Gates would also be taking a more active role in their philanthropic work.

Buffett, the world’s second-richest man, said in an interview with Fortune magazine that the timing of the two announcements — one week apart — was just “happenstance.”

Buffett’s gift is “really significant,” not just for its size but for its potential to encourage other giving, said Diana Aviv, president and CEO of Independent Sector, a nonprofit coalition of about 550 charities, foundations and corporate giving programs that includes The Gates Foundation.

“I’m sure there are lots of young, wealthy individuals who have made their fortunes and who are watching this very carefully,” she said. “These business leaders are icons.”

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هسة البدخل الجنة ديل واللا اللذبن بكنزون الذهب والفضة ويقومون الليل ويصومون النهار؟

ali elhassan
شكرا ليك , و عادى بتحصل طوااالى

Asma Abdel Halim

Quote: هسة البدخل الجنة ديل واللا اللذبن بكنزون الذهب والفضة ويقومون الليل ويصومون النهار؟

السؤال لو لى , اجابتى هى انى لا اعرف من سيدخل النار , من سيدخل الجنه
ولو فى مسلم بيقوم و يصوم من غير اداء فريضه الذكاة , اكيد ح يحاسب . و سوف يجزيه الله خيرا اذا اضاف للذكاة الصدقه و مساعده الفقراء
انت شايفه شنو ؟ لو زول بيصوم و يقوم و برضو بينفق (ذى كتير من المسلمين). ح يخش الجنه ؟؟؟

الرسول(ص) قالوا ليه فلانة دى تصوم نهارها وتقوم ليلهاولكنها تؤذى جيرانهاقال هى فى النار. اصلى فى الزمن الحاضر ده ما شفت لى مسلم اتصدق بى 95% من أمواله. أنا أمنيتى إنه المسلمين العندهم البلايين يوظفوها زى ديل. أطفال المسلمين اتصدق عليهم بيل قيتس بالتطعيم. أنا زاتى ما عارفة البدخل الجنة منو لذلك سألت وما قررت، لكن امنيتى أن يدخلها قيتس وقريبه البذلوا كل العندهم من أجل المساكين.
اللهم احفظ قيتس وأمثاله واحشر فى النار كل من يدعوك فى كنيس أو مسحد ثم يتجه بأمواله إلى كازينوهات القمار.