Glenn Gamboa
FILE - Melinda Gates attends a meeting at the G-7 Finance in Chantilly, north of Paris, on Thursday, July 18, 2019. Philanthropy is in a unique position to speed global change, but government action is necessary to implement it, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)
March 17, 2021 - 12:52 PM
NEW YORK - Philanthropy is in a unique position to speed global change, but government action is necessary to implement it, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said Wednesday.
âPhilanthropy can often take risks,â said Gates, speaking at the Bloomberg Equality Summit. âThey can try innovations that sometimes work and sometimes fail. They can look for new solutions. They can help us collect the data. But ultimately, itâs always up to government to scale up these innovations to create a change.â