Bill Gates Foundation

One of course, one of the biggest things that the Bill Gates foundation does is to help with technological initiatives – particularly in schools. I have a friend who has a child in an inner-city school, and they have benefited directly from the Gates foundation. Through foundation grants, they were able to upgrade their computer lab with some state-of-the-art equipment that they wouldn't have been able to afford in decades. They were using extremely outdated computers at the time, so was a godsend as you might imagine. They went from not being able to use the Internet at all with their own computers to having one of the most high-tech labs in the city – quite an impressive jump.