20130731V1 - The Giving Pledge

Red & Charline McCombs
April 3, 2012
Dear Warren:
Charline and I enjoyed the small group dinner that you and Bill Gates had invited us to attend in
Dallas. We were impressed by the comments of every person that night and also felt that we had a
learning experience. Charline and I would like to join your group. In the past we have made many of
our larger gifts with no strings attached. We have felt total confidence in the receiver of the gifts and
are so aware from our long business experience that the bureaucracy surrounding strings attached
doesn’t allow the receiver of the gift to get the biggest bang for the buck. What we intend is for our
gifts to make an obvious difference to the recipient in such a way that we can see and enjoy what our
gifts have made possible. In this way we feel that in addition to making a gift, we are getting greater
value for the gift because of the no strings attached policy.
We have enjoyed sharing our wealth and this letter is to inform you that we will continue in the future
to share our large impact gifts without specific directives for their use.
Thank you and Bill for continuing to recruit additional pledgers. Hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Red McCombs