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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
OpenStax (formerly OpenStax College) is a nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Most books are also available in Kindle versions on Amazon.com and in the iBooks Store.
The books are electronic, downloadable copies and will be available on Gates' website for at least a couple of days.
In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, [162] and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. [163] [164] The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax, which creates and provides free digital textbooks. [165]
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The annual cost to attend Lakeside School is $33,280 a student for the 2017-2018 school year. Bill Gates may not be leaving much of his $89 billion fortune to his three kids, but he is setting ...
The Affordable College Textbook Act is a United States legislative bill intended to support use of open textbooks. It was introduced on April 4, 2019, to the 116th Congress by four senators ( Dick Durbin of Illinois, Angus King of Maine, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Tina Smith of Minnesota), and one representative ( Joe Neguse of Colorado). [1]
Gates’ meetings with executives and employees from the Gates Foundation, to review plans, budgets, and strategies, were likened to a king holding court—spectacles one former attendee called ...