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


African Govts Collaborating with Tech Innovators to Strengthen Local Health Supply Chains €” Report
Foundation: Gates Foundation

A new report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation finds that Africa is home to a "robust ecosystem of innovators improving the safety and efficiency of health supply chains," Quartz...more

African governments are collaborating with innovators to strengthen local health supply chains
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Tracking nearly 350 innovators across 27 countries, Salient Advisory's 2023 report establishes that public health supply chains across...more

Tech Innovators, African Governments In Partnership To Improve Local Health Supply Chains
Foundation: Gates Foundation

the report titled “Innovations in Digitizing Health Supply Chains in Africa” is the first pan-African landscape of health supply chain...more

The Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Artificial Intelligence
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Google's Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have donated $125 million to create the world's largest AI scholarship program, the New York Times reports. The initiative, called AI2050, is a joint...more

Lacf And Enterprise Bank Share Common Purpose Of Supporting A Sustainable &Amp; Thriving ...
Foundation: Gates Foundation

When Steve Laurent moved to New Mexico from Utah in 2008, he and his family "really missed Los Alamos while gone," he tells the Los Alamos Daily Post. "It's a wonderful community and it's where...more

Innovation in Maternal Health: Challenges and Opportunities
Foundation: Gates Foundation

When it comes to women's health, "there are many reasons to invest in maternal health," the World Health Organization's chief medical officer writes in an op-ed in the New York Times. "Maternal...more

Collaborative Granting $161 Million For Social Change
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation

Some $161 million is going toward gender equality and health initiatives in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. That's up from the original goal of $500 million, and is backed by some of the world's...more

Nonprofit Organization Market 2023-2031 Growth Drivers and Investment Strategy €“ Euac
Foundation: Gates Foundation

The global Nonprofit Organization market was million US$ in 2017 and is expected to million US$ by the end of 2023, growing at a CAGR of about XX.X% between 2018 and 2023, according to a new report...more

Here'S How Much Money Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Other American Billionaires Have ...
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged to give away 99% of their fortune, a sum that would put the Microsoft co-founder and his wife at the top of Forbes' list of the world's richest...more

Bill Gates And Aliko Dangote: A Dynamic Philanthropic Partnership Shaping Global Health ...
Foundation: Gates Foundation

One of the world's richest men and one of the world's richest people are teaming up to fight AIDS in Africa. In a blog post, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, thanked...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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