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San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » GOOGLE PHILANTHROPY UP HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS - Donations slated to produce affordable renewable energy, fight poverty and alleviate risk of pandemics: "The philanthropic arm of the search engine Google plans to boost spending to “hundreds of millions of dollars” in the next few years.

Larry Brilliant, who is running the operation, said expenditure would rise significantly on efforts to produce affordable renewable energy, fight poverty and alleviate the risk of pandemics.

Mr Brilliant said that he had been “living under a microscope” since his appointment in April 2006, but had now concluded extensive internal and external consultations and drawn up his priorities."

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