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| | TIME.com: Opening Up to Charity -- Jul. 26, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Their foundations remain models for companies and wealthy business people, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose family foundation is one of the world's biggest. |
 | | According to the Brussels-based European Foundation Centre, about a quarter of the 61,000 foundations in the European Union were established in the past decade. |
 | | Rien van Gendt, executive director of the $1 billion Van Leer Group Foundation, is one of the leaders of the new breed of philanthropists in Europe. |
| www.time.com /time/globalbusiness/article/0,9171,1101040726-665056,00.html (1012 words) |
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