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Show The Salt Lake Tribuné NATION Billionaires Getting Choosier About Charitable Donations Foundationsallow moguls to control where money goes BY RON KAMPEAS ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Theyare the néw philanthropists: billionaires who makegiving personal. Moguls including Bill Gates, ‘Ted Turner and George Soros represent an increasing trend to give away money the way they madeit —— ontheir own — bypassing traditional charities thatare feeling the pinch. “It’s the control factor,” said Kathleen Kelly, a University of Southwestern Louisiana expert on charity. “They think: ‘By establishing a foundation, it gives me the longevity ‘on influencing how the money is spent,’ . . . I would also suspect there is a factor of ‘no one is doing it right, the way I would do it’” The Chronicle of Philanthropy has detailed therise of billionaireinitiated foundations through the 1990s onits “Philanthropy 400”Jist. “There have been criticisms,” said Chronicle Editor Stacy Palmer. “A lot of recent giving has not been focused on the very poor; the arts have suffered.” Education, the leading charitable money-getter last year, is the favored cause oflast year’s biggest giver, Microsoft boss Bill Gates. Education earned $12.7 billion in charity last year, according to the Chronicle. — twice what was earned by the second-leading charitable cause, the poor. Gates, whose foundation’s disbursementof$995 million last year placed him $850 million ahead of his nearest rival, has emphasized high-tech education. In 1999, he pleted $1 billion over 20 years to minority scholarships, with a focus on engineering, science, math, science andlibrary science. Paul Schervish, a sociology professor at Boston College, suggested that it was in the nature of the mogul to want to nudge the world toward his “The psychological confidence that has them see themselves as world builders, allows them to believe that whatin most cases would take a social movementto achieve, they can achieve single-handedly,” said Schervish, who heads the Social Welfare Research Institute. It’s also a product of the times, Schervish said: This generation of moguls has been brought up with the post-World War II mentality that establishment spending: is inherently undisciplined, whether it is governmentor charities doling out the cash. “This is an era ofnot wanting to throw money after a problem, but to be more effective by leveraging it,” he said. That’s reflected in the rapid 231 percent rise of “donoradvised” where donors direct exactly how their funds are CARE tuie coneai High-profile giving comes with poet ehangeee somethat ites images of the moguls as sober Butit’s not all good. Soros was insulted by anti- Friday, February 9, 2001 The New Breed of Philanthrapists These fourbillionaires have given away fortunes to various causes. Here's a look at their backgrounds and highlights of their donations. @ Born Oct. 28, 1955,in Seattle; age 45. | Born Nov. 19, 1938,in Cincinnati; age 62. ll Married to Melinda Gates; two children. 1 Married three times, lately i from Jane Fonda; lH Resides in Medina, Wash. five children total. Dropped Harvard thon eee 1 Worth $63 billion. : in 2000,his foundation @ Resides in Atlanta, owns ranches in Montana and Kansas. . sin liga Brown Uni t donated $995 milion to Brown @ WorthUniversity. focused on global $9.1billion. health, education and | Il In 2000,gave $50.6 million technology. | to the United Nations | Foundation. In 1998, his first i | Such donation to the United ding Washington anti-globalization ac- tivist, said that Soros brought the same undemocratic tendencies to the wayhe spent his money as the way he ae it — currency speculatior “We don't like the idea that these unelected people have so much power,notjust in influencing politics, but setting the tone for economic decisions,” said Eidinger, who once worked for Soros and admires much of his work. Eidinger said he was disillusioned when he saw Soros’ freespeech promotion in Serbia developed into a pushfor free trade. “I don’t believe it’s intentional, but there. is a pattern of Soros | Nations emphasized women's causes. supporting democratic activists who believe in American-style free marketreforms,”he said. Soros has said he makes no apologies for political giving, saying his wealth allows him to fund causes others would rather avoid. There is also criticism about spending within a charitable discipline, such as health care. The heavy emphasis on AIDS research exasperates developing-world medical professionals, who say that malaria is equally a threat, although it is not as noticed in the West. Apparently heeding such complaints, Gates recently dedicated $40 million to research on the “poor people’s disease.” Questioning how money is spentis a natural for the left — but the right is no slouch either. The Weekly Spectator, which used funding from conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife to investigate former President Clinton, gripes that Gates is misspending his education money on. whatit calls race-based programs. Thebillionaire givers are even swiping at each other. Ted Turner and Gates are in the habit of challenging one another to spend more on favored causes. Such sniping is inevitable,billionaire watchers say, but scures the real point, that the most important trend thebig givers are setting is giving itself. “Bill Gates and Ted [Turner] are both men of extraordinary vision,” said Larry Gelbrandt, a senior media analyst with Paul Kagan Assothink in very global ways, they cometo view the worldin far less ethnocentric way.” Atlantis on the Way to SpaceStation Theshuttle is carrying the Destiny,a billion-dollar scientific-research lab BY MARCIA DUNN ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis and its cargo, a billion-dollar science laboratory, chased after the international space station early Thursday following a spectacular sunset launch. “We wish you luck as you deliver the heart and soul of the international space station — and have fun,” launch director Mike Leinbach told Atlantis’ five astronauts. NASA’s $1.4 billion Destiny laboratory module is the most expensive piece of the space station. The space station, Alpha, was soaring over the North Atlantic east of Newfoundland whenAtlan- bayis the first ofat least three retis took off at 6:13 p.m. The shuttle search modules planned for space and its crew should catch upto the station Alpha: It’s so expensive station today andinstall the Des- that NASA couldn’tafford to build tiny laboratory on Saturday. Three a backup.If the lab is damaged or spacewalks will be needed during . destroyed in flight, the station will the week the shuttle is docked to be set back for years, the station to make all the lab Thelabis 28 feet long, 14 feet in connections. diameter and more than 30,000 pounds. It’s made up of 415,000 Space station Alpha’s three residents learned of the launch as parts and 26 miles of wiring, and holds 13 computers. soon as Atlantis reached orbit. Those computers will enable “They're on their way,” Mission Control informed station comNASA’s Mission Control to take manderBill Shepherd. 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