The Ellison Institute of Technology – EIT.org
Years ago, along with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and others, I declared support for the Giving Pledge—because I believed and continue to believe that practicing philanthropy by giving to nonprofit organizations that pursue public good is important. But there are additional ways that I would like to invest my time and resources in giving back to the world we share. Recently, my family founded a new technical institute in partnership with the University of Oxford. Our mission at the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is to solve some of humanity’s most challenging and enduring problems. EIT’s humane endeavors include transforming healthcare by designing and distributing a new generation of life-saving drugs, combating world hunger by engineering higher yielding crops and building a global network of low-cost indoor growing systems, and slowing climate change by developing efficient clean energy generation and storage systems. So, I am amending my giving pledge and promising to do more—by concentrating my resources on the Institute. I believe this will improve our chances of delivering practical solutions to the problems of hunger, healthcare and climate change.
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