William Rainey Harper’s Index:
Investment in Intellect
Number of universities Microsoft founder Bill Gates visited during his April college tour
5 (Chicago, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, MIT)
Attendance at Bill Gates’ April 20 talk at Rockefeller Chapel
1,700
Problem—Worldwide mortality rate of children under age 5 in 1960
20 million
Progress—Worldwide mortality rate of children under age 5 today
7.7 million
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants in global health, poverty and development, and education since its 1994 inception
$22.8 billion
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s investment in vaccine development over the next decade
$10 billion
Projected number of lives saved through the vaccine initiative
8 million
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