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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF or the Gates Foundation) is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family". The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers include Co-Chair William H. Gates, Sr. and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Raikes.
It had an endowment of US$36.2 billion as of 30 September 2012. The scale of the foundation and the way it seeks to apply business techniques to giving makes it one of the leaders in the philanthrocapitalism revolution in global philanthropy, though the foundation itself notes that the philanthropic role has limitations. In 2007, its founders were ranked as the second most generous philanthropists in America. In 2010, its founders had started The Commission on Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century titled as "Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world".
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ImpactAlpha
April 1, 2018
“No society can achieve its potential with half of its population marginalized and disempowered,” Melinda Gates writes. “We have not always been as intentional in this area as we might have been or as we intend to be in the future. As a result, we have lost opportunities to maximize our impact across all of the areas in whichÃâà...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
March 30, 2018
Patrick Methvin has been promoted to director of the Bill & Melinda Gates program that oversees grants to improve student learning. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Patrick Methvin, deputy director of the foundation's postsecondary success strategy, has been promoted to director of the program,Ãâà...
Columbus Business First
March 29, 2018
Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be the spring commencement speaker at Ohio State University's spring graduation. The philanthropic foundation is the largest in the nation, according to Ohio State. University President Michael Drake said Desmond-Hellmann,Ãâà...
Africa.com
March 24, 2018
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is visiting Nigeria to see first-hand the progress the country is making on primary healthcare provision, polio eradication, nutrition and financial inclusion. He will be asking partners to prioritize supporting Nigeria's poorest people to ensure a sustainable andÃâà...
TheStranger.com
March 22, 2018
Anyway, the Gates Foundation's press line went to voicemail. The pre-recorded message said, "Please note that his number is only for journalists and bloggers," so I'm pretty sure I had the right number. Sure, they're worried about malaria and other more important things than musicals at the GatesÃâà...
Vox
March 19, 2018
Melinda Gates is the co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the United States. With more than $40 billion in assets, the Gates Foundation works on a dizzying array of issues, from eradicating polio to feeding the world to treating HIV to stoppingÃâà...
Pittsburgh Business Times
March 9, 2018
Todd Owens, one of the region's best known recruitment specialists and cofounder of Pittsburgh-based Nonprofit Talent, is joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, effective April 16. He and his family are relocating to Seattle this spring. He will serve as an internal executive recruiter, supporting theÃâà...
Kaiser Family Foundation
March 6, 2018
'We're aiming to invest this $170 million over four years to support four critical and integrated pillars on women's economic empowerment,' said Sarah Hendriks, director of gender equality at the Gates Foundation, who outlined the new strategy, which aims to transform how women participate in economiesÃâà...
Fair Observer
March 5, 2018
The Gates have pulled off a kind of optical illusion by using equity to advance social equity (fairness) in a way that is, by their own admission, not “fair.” Bill and Melinda Gates have either discovered or simply admitted that they have an unfair advantage over ordinary people (i.e. non-billionaires). A readerÃâà...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
March 5, 2018
Over the next four years the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will steer $170 million to increase women's economic might across the world, delivering on Melinda Gates's longstanding goal to place a greater emphasis on women's equality. Under its new gender-equality strategy, Gates will primarily supportÃâà...
Devex
March 1, 2018
LONDON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest $3 million in a grant initiative focused on financially empowering vulnerable groups in Jordan, namely Syrian refugees and low-income citizens. The platform, called Mobile Money for Resilience, was launched at a ceremony in the JordanianÃâà...
The Australian
February 25, 2018
Mr Morton drew to the attention of the Gates Foundation to a “how-to-vote scorecard” that endorsed supported political parties with “smiley faces” and non-preferred parties with “sad faces”. He also included photos of supporters “distributing printed material at polling booths” and “doorknocking in marginalÃâà...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 21, 2018
In the span of just a few months, two high-level officials at the higher-education arm of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have left or announced plans to depart. This being Gates, the largest philanthropic player in postsecondary education, the departures of Daniel Greenstein and Heather Hiles haveÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
December 31, 1999
Somali vaccination workers give an anti polio drop to a child, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Dr. Christopher Elias of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explained to a group of South Carolina students Monday how close global partners are to eradicating polio on the African continent. File/Farah Abdi Warsameh/Ãâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 31, 1999
The leader of the country's largest philanthropic foundation will speak to Ohio State University graduates this spring, the school announced Wednesday. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will deliver the commencement address at Ohio State's springÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
December 31, 1999
Patrick Methvin, who has spent five years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focused on trying to spread higher education innovation, has been promoted to lead the foundation's work in postsecondary success. Methvin has been promoted from within to replace Daniel Greenstein, who stepped downÃâà...
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