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.
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.
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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
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
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
"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
"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
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
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
Jeff Denby co-founded PACT, a movement camouflaged as a clothing company. Denby and his team decided to build a business to fund the causes they believe in.