Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting
Scores of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly kickoff, as influential donors like Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Skoll, and Bill and Melinda Gates hold new gatherings that promise to update what used to be the philanthropic get-together of the year: the glittery Clinton Global Initiative, filled with celebrities, rich donors, high-level government executives, and lots of nonprofit leaders all on stage together, which produced more than $85 billion in aid pledges.
Other groups holding meetings that week to focus on the role donors and charities can play include the World Economic Forum, famous for its annual meeting in Davos, which for the first time since 2002 will set up camp in Manhattan. . .