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Why doesn't the leadership team and the board at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation look more like the people they "serve" around the world? I think the book is just another way to make money for the more privileged.
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Carolyn
That is a sad question. Here you have people who are trying to be transparent about what work they choose to do, funding it to a degree most of us could never equal, and how they go about it, and you're worried that they don't fit your idea of how they should look. Isn't that stereotyping?
Darlena Glenn
Your question makes me think you have not read the book. If you have, and if you have read the comments under your post, perhaps you have a different question now? Like why aren't more people doing what Melinda Gates is?
Sandra
The people who work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are from a wide diversity of backgrounds, countries, gender, and experiences. I have been to events and eaten at the employee cafeteria. I can attest it reflects the ideas in her book.
Judy Zell
She is donating the money from the sale of this book to several other charities. This book is not making the Gates any richer.
Catherine Rivas
Did you read the book?
C.S.
well one reason is.. many of the people they "serve" (your word) don't have the skill set to work in the industry and therefore aren't qualified to sit on the leadership team or the board. Bill has complained about this several times.
In the meantime, he and his wife keep doing what they do for others...instead of focusing on the minutiae...
In the meantime, he and his wife keep doing what they do for others...instead of focusing on the minutiae...
Cindy
I am afraid you are giving a canned response to this. No one should have to apologize for the way they were born. They should also be allowed to hire for the board or any other job the most qualified people who apply without prejudice. Did you apply?
Norma Jean
It is stated in the prologue that all revenue from sales of the book will be distributed among the groups listed in the back of the book.
Janet
I'm curious if you have actually seen the leadership team and the board...or read the book.
Mohammad Yazdani
please describe more.
Manar
For the sake of argument, let's assume the leadership team and the board at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation "looked more like" the people they serve.. what difference would that make?
Actions matter more than looks and appearances! Writing a book that tells stories about the less fortunate and donating profit from the book sales to charities and foundations that serve the community and work to better the lives of others less fortunate matters more than looking a certain way.
I believe this also refuted your assumption that this book is another way to make them richer...
Actions matter more than looks and appearances! Writing a book that tells stories about the less fortunate and donating profit from the book sales to charities and foundations that serve the community and work to better the lives of others less fortunate matters more than looking a certain way.
I believe this also refuted your assumption that this book is another way to make them richer...
Kristin
My children attend a public school that reflects our state's largest refugee population in a primarily Caucasian community. On the PTA we talk about this very thing - why doesn't our board look more like those we are serving? The answer so far is that they don't come. We want them there but the don't attend. We invite, they say no. And it sounds like the Gates Foundation collaborates with a lot of local organizations who are more representative of the populations they serve.
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