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Since the start of the Dutch Postcode Lottery in 1989, Novamedia's charity lotteries donated 4 billion euro to more than 240 charities for people, nature, culture and health & welfare.
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Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries third in the world
Amsterdam 23 December 2011
Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries is the world's third-largest private charity donor. This was announced on Thursday by City A.M., the most widely read business-focused newspaper distributed in and around London.
Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries is in third place, having donated a total of £ 451 million to charity. Only the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in America and the Wellcome Trust in the UK (which donated £ 1.67 billion and 602 million respectively) are ahead of it as the largest donors in the world.
This is the first time that City A.M. has published a list of the Top 20 largest private donors in the world. The newspaper is now planning to publish a longer updated list on an annual basis. The Top 20 donors in the world are currently all American and British benefactors. Dutch Novamedia/Postcode Lotteries is the only exception on the list.
The WK Kellogg Foundation is in fourth place and the Ford Foundation is in fifth place.
Read the article in City A.M.
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City A.M. article part 1
City A.M. article part 2
City A.M. article part 3
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