Howard Buffett's foundation, known for its ag efforts, shifts to healing the scars of war

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130430/MONEY/130429610/1685#howard-buffett-s-foundation-known-for-its-ag-efforts-shifts-to-healing-the-scars-of-war

By Steve Jordon

Howard Buffett's foundation, known mostly for efforts to improve agriculture, is spending an increasing amount of time and money on “conflict mitigation” in troubled African countries.

Goals include encouraging child soldiers to lay down their arms, redeveloping communities destroyed by war and trying to resolve problems before they erupt into violence.

Of the $67.9 million in charitable spending by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation last year, $14.2 million went for conflict mitigation. That's 21 percent of the total and triple what the foundation spent on similar problems in 2011.

The foundation gets its money from his father, Omaha investor Warren Buffett.

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