Buffett Foundation supports reproductive rights organizations

Omaha World-Herald: "From a small office in midtown Omaha, one of Nebraska's most widely known families is carrying out a low-profile international campaign to protect abortion rights and widen access to birth control and family planning services. The campaign is being financed by Omaha investor Warren Buffett and his wife, Susan, and carried out by the charitable foundation bearing their name. The Buffett Foundation quietly, almost secretly, has become one of the nation's most generous benefactors for organizations at work for abortion rights, population control and women's reproductive health. The foundation awards most of its grants — $21 million in 2001, or 75 percent of its total giving — to groups that work in abortion access and reproductive health." A sidebar lists twelve organizations and projects that have received Buffett Foundation grants.

Posted on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:28 AM