Giving Compass' Take:

Bill Gates is striving to help educated and healthy children that will lead their communities out of poverty by donating $100 million to the educational system.

How can everyone help the education system? What can we do to ensure these children's educational future?

Here is another example of how everyone can donate to the education system.


Bill Gates is on a roll.

After the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amplified donations to a help teachers stock their classrooms with school supplies last week, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist is now determined to help US schools more directly.

The foundation plans to lift up impoverished public schools by funding third-party groups, many of which already have an established relationship with the Gates Foundation, according to AP.

The foundation released on Tuesday the first round of almost $100 million for 19 programs working with middle and high schools within communities living in poverty across 13 states. The funding is part of a larger $460 million budget which will be distributed over the next five years, to assist low-income students and send more communities of color to college.

Read the full article about giving back Leah Rodriguez at Global Citizen