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President Bukele, Mayor Muyshondt, Ambassador Johnson, Alejandro Poma and Mark Smith from Howard G. Buffett Foundation take a tour of Parque Cuscatlán

Howard G. Buffett Foundation to fund Community Care Campus The Howard G. Buffett Foundation announced a major investment in Decatur Wednesday. The Foundation will invest $30 million on a drug treatment campus, which will use 21 acres of land to help provide treatment to people dealing with drug problems in central Illinois. State-of-the-art facilities will include a 31,000 square foot detox and residential rehabilitation building, an 18,000 square foot outpatient treatment c...enter and a 17,000 square foot transitional housing building. The land is between Central Avenue and Marietta Street. Crossing Healthcare currently operates in that area. Crossing will operate the facilities and employ as many as 200 people. Construction is expected to provide about 200 jobs. The entire project is expected to create over $53 million of economic impact. Howard Buffett, who is Macon County's sheriff, says he has seen up close just how serious the opioid issue is in central Illinois. "Drug addiction is devastating our communities and affecting people at every age and income level," he said. "Drugs are killing more of our neighbors than firearms and auto accidents combined. It is clear to me that it will take a significant investment of public and private resources to stop the trajectory of addiction rates, and it will take a comprehensive approach to reverse current trends and heal communities." Information from the Illinois Department of Public Health shows a 48.8 percent rise in drug overdose deaths, along with a 76.2 percent spike in opioid deaths, from 2013 to 2016 in the state. People who need the facilities will have access to what the Foundation calls "quality of life" benefits, which will include everything from a clinic and cafeteria to a computer training lab, a movie theater, three-quarter mile walking path and other features. It says treatment options will be available to people "regardless of their ability to pay". Baby TALK will move its center of operations to the complex. Northeast Community Fund also plans to do business at the complex. A press release from the Foundation says Macon County has a serious shortage of rehabilitation beds, with people on Medicaid sometimes waiting weeks for help. It says only 16 licensed beds are available in Macon County in August, compared to more than 90 in Sangamon County. The residential rehabilitation building and transitional housing building will have a combined 112 beds.

Howard Graham Buffett (born December 16, 1954) is an American businessman, former politician, philanthropist, photographer, farmer, and conservationist.[1] He is the middle child of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. He is named after Howard Buffett, his grandfather, and Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's favorite professor. Buffett serves or has served on the National Geographic Council of Advisors, World Wildlife Fund National Council, Cougar Fund, Illinois and Nebraska Ch...apters of the Nature Conservancy, Ecotrust, and the Africa Foundation. Buffett founded the Nature Conservation Trust, a non-profit Trust in South Africa to support cheetah conservation, the International Cheetah Conservation Foundation,[21] and was a Founding Director of The Cougar Fund. In October 2007, Buffett was named a Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger by the United Nations World Food Programme.[22][23] He later joined the boards of the Barefoot Foundation and the ONE Campaign.[22][24] In March 2010, Buffett became a member of the Eastern Congo Initiative founded by Ben Affleck. "I joined Ben in this effort because I believe strongly in investing in sustainable solutions to humanitarian challenges," he said.[25] The following year in 2011, Buffett teamed up with the Bridgeway Foundation to fund a program.[26] The Howard G. Buffett Foundation As the CEO and Chairman of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation (HGBF), Buffett has traveled to over 130 countries to document the challenges of preserving biodiversity and providing adequate resources to support human demands. The HGBF supports projects in the areas of agriculture, nutrition, water, humanitarian, conservation, and conflict/unaccompanied persons. The HGBF focuses much of its funding on communities in Africa and Central America.[27] In 2007, the HGBF launched the Global Water Initiative with several organizations to address the declining fresh water supply and clean water to the world's poorest people.[28] In March 2014, The HGBF donated USD $23.7 million (RAND 255 million), as part of a joint three-year initiative between HGBF, the Nature Conservation Trust (NCT) and South African National Parks (SANParks), to combat the poaching of Rhino in South Africa.[29] The HGBF has committed $200 million to develop the municipality of Tibú, which has the second largest coca crop in Colombia, and to help local farmers to substitute growing coca with legal crops like cacao.[30] The HGBF was one of five philanthropic groups that received a combined $2.9 billion of Class B shares in Berkshire Hathaway from Warren Buffett

Howard G. Buffett and his son Howard W. Buffett spoke at the Foster School on about their recently published book, Forty Chances: Finding...

The wealthiest local sheriff in America is starting his first full week on the job The new sheriff in Macon County, Illinois, doesn’t have a long and storied career in law enforcement. He’s a commercial farmer, an author of multiple books, and a corporate-board member. He’s also the head of a multi-billion-dollar foundation that wants to end world hunger, and the son of one of the richest men in the world. Howard G. Buffett, the son of Warren, was sworn in as interim sheriff ...on Sept. 15, after the incumbent, Tom Schneider, announced his retirement. He’ll hold the role until the county holds elections next fall. Buffett is no random choice: He’s served as undersheriff in the county since 2014, and received an auxiliary sheriff’s certification in 2012. He boasts multiple qualifications, according to the county’s news release, including logging more than 3,300 hours of patrol and training, 74 weapons qualifications and several law-enforcement awards. His accomplishments in the department include developing K-9 and drug-interdiction programs,

Howard Buffett: Farming and finance Warren Buffett has chosen his son Howard to succeed him as chairman of his multibillion dollar holding company. But Howie, a farmer, is no chip off the old block. Legendary investor Warren Buffett has chosen his son Howard to succeed him as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, his multibillion dollar holding company. But "Howie" - a farmer - is no chip off the old block. More comfortable on a tractor than in a boardroom, Howard is a hands-on phi...Continue reading

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HOW MASSIVE DONATIONS FROM HOWARD G. BUFFETT HELPED BLOCK THE OPENING OF A POT DISPENSARY IN ILLINOIS Buffett’s foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to law enforcement programs and drug rehabilitation efforts in Decatur, Illinois. Illinois became the 11th state in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana, raking in nearly $3.2 million in revenue on the first day of sales. The legislation, enacted by the state’s Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, includes social...Continue reading

Warren Buffett’s Heir Has an Unusual Job: Fighting Drug Cartels in Colombia Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s eldest son and the successor apparent of Berkshire Hathaway, as well as CEO of the $340 million Howard G. Buffett Foundation, doesn’t show up in the limelight often. But when he does, you’d better listen up. Every corporation has a responsibility. The idea that [a company] is a pure profit-generating machine is dead wrong, the 63-year-old philanthropist contemplated ...Continue reading

On Friday, May 13, Howard G. Buffett became the 19th recipient of the World Ecology Award. Through his Howard G. Buffett Foundation, he is directing projects in such countries as Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda and many additional countries. Buffett has also been employed with and served on boards at a variety of organizations, including United States Trade Repr...esentative Committees, Archer Daniels Midland Company, The GSI Group, Coca-Cola Enterprises, ConAgra Foods, Sloan Implement, Coca-Cola Company, Berkshire Hathaway and numerous nonprofit boards. In 1999 this extraordinary individual established the Howard G. Buffett Foundation (HGBF) with a mission to improve the standard of living and quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations. Its immediate priorities include food security, clean water and humanitarian aid in conflict and post-conflict regions. Buffett established HGBF using the bulk of the resources available to him through family assets. At the time Howard himself worked on his own farm. Currently he has a 1,400 acre farm near Decatur, Illinois; oversees two research farms of 2,300 acres and 9,200 acres in Illinois and South Africa respectively. In his Foundation’s 10th Anniversary Annual Report, he quotes his father Warren’s advice to him: Don’t just go for safe projects. You can bat a thousand in this game if you want to do nothing important. Or you’ll bat something less than that if you take on the really tough problems. In addition to the primary mission described above, his Foundation’s operations have remained sensitive to global issues such as conservational agriculture, habitat protection and biodiversity. Additional funding is directed toward nutrition, forced migration and development of journalistswhich supports student learning and improved governance. Buffett also continues a decade-long interest in the well-being of cheetahs and mountain gorillas. He has traveled to more than 100 countries documenting the challenges of preserving our biodiversity while providing adequate resources to meet the needs of a growing global population. He is the recipient of numerous honors bestowed by both international governments and domestic organizations. The Howard G. Buffett Foundation’s Annual Report proudly describes it efforts to learn from its mistakes, failures and successes. It seeks to be a catalyst for successful innovation, to provide the leadership required for success, and makes seed capital available that can be leveraged for additional support. This year’s World Ecology Award uniquely recognizes a carefully developed, well-managed and innovative effort to build a better planet by focusing on fundamental, structural problems designed to improve the lives of over 3 billion people who live on less the $2 a day.

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Even though he was the son of one of the world’s richest men, Howard Buffett struggling throughout his life to become a successful farmer. Now, he’s combining his farming skills with his father’s billions to end world hunger. Howard’s dad, Warren Buffett is one of the two richest men in America and made history ten years ago when he gave away the largest ever philanthropic gift, $37 billion, to charity. When he joined with Bill and Melinda Gates to create The Giving Pledge,... urging wealthy people to give their fortunes away, part of his charitable donation went to set up foundations headed by each of his three children Susie, Howard, and Peter I’m a farmer. I know what I can get from improved seed. I know what I get from fertilizer. They’re huge, he told The Atlantic for an extended feature article. But technology can’t build organic matter. It can’t create topsoil. It can’t magically protect water quality. It’s a quick fix, and Africa needs a long-term solution. Instead, his Howard Buffett Foundation working toward a Brown Revolution creating sustainable farms that prevent erosion, preserve topsoil, and regenerate farmland. It’s a much slower approach than the seemingly overnight success of India in the sixties, but he says until the soil is restored, seeds and fertilizer won’t be enough.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.