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.
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"Maternal...more
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
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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
One of the world's richest men and one of the world's richest people are teaming up to fight AIDS in Africa.
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