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by brudgers 4534 days ago
The Gates foundation offered a $100 million matching grant to Rotary International's Polio Plus program in 2009. The intial matching grant and subsequent increases have been matched by Rotary's members.

https://www.rotary.org/en/rotary-and-gates-foundation-extend...

The reason the Gates Foundation got involved was to help fund the final push to eradicate Polio.