Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation



The foundation was founded on December 1994 and was first named as the William H. Gates Foundation. The main focus of the foundation were global health and community needs in the Pacific North west.


In October 2006, the foundation created two trust structure called Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which distributes grant money, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which manages endowment assets.


The foundation believes that every life has an equal value. They work to help all people lead a healthy life. In developing countries, they focus on the improvement of people's health and lifting them out of hunger and poverty. In the United States, they seek to ensure that people have access to opportunities that would lead them to succeed in school and in life.

Foundation Grants and Resources





    

Recent News from Gates Foundation


The Tenuous Place of Big Philanthropy in America'S Social Contract
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Moore Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Helmsley Charitable Trust

Sohrab Ahmari's new book, Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It, isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of free enterprise. In fact, the co-founder and...more

Is the Mainstream Press Beginning to Turn on Bill Gates?
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Bill Gates is "still exactly who he was at Microsoft: a bully and monopolist, convinced of his own righteousness and intent on imposing his ideas, his solutions, and his leadership on everyone...more

Melinda Gates Net Worth: More Firepower To Help 'Every Woman And Girl' | IBTimes
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Melinda continues to be the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic venture that has granted more than $50 billion,...more

The P4: A New Public-Private Partnership Model
Foundation: Gates Foundation

There's a new way to give and a new way to get it done. Mashable reports on the Public-Philanthropic Partnership, a new way for philanthropists to work with nonprofits to solve some of the...more

Environmental Funders Networkenvironmental Impact Investing Group
Foundation: Gates Foundation

The world's biggest philanthropists are putting their money where their mouth isin the form of environmental impact investments. The World Wildlife Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...more

Why Bill Gates Says Ai Will Supercharge Medical Innovations
Foundation: Gates Foundation

"If I had to make a prediction, in high-income countries like the United States, I would guess that we are 18-24 months away from significant levels of AI use by the general population," Bill Gates...more

Bill Gates Predicts 'Supercharged' AI Innovation on Climate, Healthcare Issues - Slashdot
Foundation: Gates Foundation

The most successful economies are driven by innovative industries that evolve to meet the needs of a changing world. My favorite innovation...more

Bill Gates Is Optimistic about Ai in 2024, Says It Will Supercharge Innovation
Foundation: Gates Foundation

"If you are old enough to remember, think back to the beginning of the internet," Bill Gates writes on his blog. "At first, you probably didn't know many people who were using it. But it...more

What Will Health Care Look like 20 Years in the Future?
Foundation: Gates Foundation

It's been 20 years since the world's first vaccine against cervical cancer was developed, and on Monday, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria announced the results of a major...more

Highlights from Usaid'S Contributions to Cop28
Foundation: Gates Foundation

The US is putting its money where its mouth is on the climate change front. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced Wednesday that it's committing $53 million to 23 cities...more

Illustrative Grants from Gates Foundation



United Way of King County-$1,500,000

University of California Berkeley Foundation-$250,000

Education Writers Association-$960,962

Business-Higher Education Forum-$910,000

Higher Education Policy Institute-$5,384,226

Center For Law And Social Policy-$400,000

Building Changes-$750,000

Building Changes-$5,383,920

Washington Low Income Housing Alliance-$335,508

MDRC-$13,000,000



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