Bill Gates, the world’s richest person, continues to make news for his ten-figure philanthropy. Gates gave away $4.6 billion in Microsoft shares in June to his personal charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a filing published Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission. His pitch: the Gates Foundation will donate a mosquito net for every person who reads his latest blog post and takes a subsequent quiz. Dubbed “Mosquito Wars,” the campaign is part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s broader effort to combat malaria. Bill Gates, 61, made his fortune as a cofounder of Microsoft, the software firm he started with Paul Allen in 1975.

Source: Forbes August 15, 2017 17:24 UTC