Sentence examples for slim foundation from inspiring English sources
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Number five among the biggest givers is the world's richest man, Carlos Slim Helú of Mexico, who also happens to be the most philanthropic person outside of the U.S. The telecom tycoon has given a total of $4 billion to his Carlos Slim Foundation, though he has historically shown a preference for investing in projects that will create economically viable jobs, rather than simply giving money away.
To that end, Slim's Telmex foundation has developed a program with the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to promote the study of digital culture in underdeveloped countries.
Both men announced they would increase their support of child development and related programs through their personal foundations, Slim pledging $110 million and Buffett $85 million.
With the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard (funded by Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad), Slims foundation began collaborating in 2010 on a three-year study of the genomic roots of cancer and type 2 diabetes in Mexican and Latin American populations, with the Slim Foundation paying $65 million.
They all welcome the slimming down and the clearer foundation profile.
In March, it was announced that Slim was giving his charitable foundations six billion dollars' worth of stock.
Any of these enterprises would have made Carlos Slim a wealthy man, but the foundation of his empire is the telecommunications company Telmex, which he acquired in 1990, when Mexico began privatizing its national industries.
Mr. Slim says he is creating a private foundation to pour $100 million into the cleanup over the next five years -- twice what the city has pledged.
Mr. Slim has said that he would form a foundation to spend $100 million to help clean up its congested center.
Last week, Mr. Slim pledged at least $100 million to Mr. Clinton's foundation to fight Latin American poverty.
