In our world, a lot of the money going into medical research comes from private charities run by extremely wealthy people. Since news related to these charities usually don’t warrant their own thread, I’m creating this catch-all one. There has been a little talk in the ME/LC community in creating a project to pitch to Melinda Gates’ charity, Pivotal Ventures. Whitney Dafoe also tried to pitch Elon Musk to invest into ME/CFS.
News: Warren Buffet has created a 100 billion USD charity. It is unclear what the money will be spent on. https://www.axios.com/2024/07/01/warren-buffett-pledge-100-billion