If you were George Soros

[GymLeaderMisty]

Soros' philanthropic funding includes efforts to promote non-violent democratization in the post-Soviet states. These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland). As of 2003, PBS estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion.[23] The OSI says it has spent about $400 million annually in recent years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Philanthropy

You have a budget of USD 400 million per year to spend on philanthrophic causes

So to make this thread more restrictive than the ten billion dollars thread (Soros' net worth)

Here are a few restrictions:

no investments
the money has to be in philanthropy not personal consumption
it can be political but no necessarily

As for me, I would fund Marxist and socialist causes like the real George Soros (who is hated by the right/ he does not actually fund those causes but he hates bush.)

 

[Virtual Chatot]

I would probably build a bunker behind my house, and fill it with military supplies...


...what? :P

 

[Agent Cobalt]

I would donate it to the RNC to make up for my past sins.

 

[Pokeyomom]

I would probably fund some crazy Black Water esque organization to go help stop the genocide in Sudan.

 

[Cosmic Tyrant]

I'd use it to fund a new health care plan in the U.S.A. Hopefully it would be like the kinds used in France or England, not that it would be a good possability based on how the U.S. runs it's health care coverage, but that would be a nice start.

 

[Rabbit]

As for me, I would fund Marxist and socialist causes like the real George Soros (who is hated by the right/ he does not actually fund those causes but he hates bush.)

Wtf, are you serious? o_O Marxist causes...as in crazy people who are waiting for a revolution of the proletariat and the downfall of the bourgeois class so that a communist society can be established? Haven't we gone over this before? Like, 50 years ago? COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK. It doesn't work as a social ideal, it doesn't work as an economic ideal. Furthermore, it isn't even democratic, so you'd be working against your official goal.

But seriously...I think I'd dig wells in Africa. And send people rechargeable lightbulbs. There was a guy who did that (read about it in the National Geographic) and it actually worked. There were entire villages using LED lightbulbs that they could recharge by working out on a bicycle machine. I have no idea what they do when the lightbulbs die, but those models are supposed to be really long-lasting.