The VF editor in chief highlights influential women, the causes they hold dear, and the importance of improving the lives of women and girls.
Last year at a breakfast with a handful of journalists, Melinda French Gates mentioned that she is often asked for advice on how to give. Having come up on the tidal wave of wealth creation in Silicon Valley and then funneling that wealth on an extraordinary level into the Gates Foundation, she’s a pioneer and an expert, primed to counsel new members of the millionaire and billionaire clubs on what their legacies might look like outside the boardroom.
I know from my own work as a director of the board of CARE, the global humanitarian organization, that money spent improving the lives of women and girls is the most effective path to improving lives in general, since they have the most untapped potential.
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