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


Bill Gates Praises India'S Progress in Heath, Climate, Technology Sectors
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Bill Gates is "more optimistic than ever about the progress India is making in health, development, and climate" after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a trip to the country...more

Gates Foundation CEO on global health and pandemic preparedness
Foundation: Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world's largest philanthropic organizations, has invested billions of dollars in global...more

How Women in Tech Are Transforming Social Impact
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Ellen Pao, Ann Mei Chang, and Nabiha Syed are leading women in tech in the nonprofit sector.Their tech experiences made them comfortable with experimentation and risk, traits not often found in the...more

Philanthropy is not a substitute for fair taxation - Alternet.org
Foundation: Gates Foundation

There has never been more money earmarked for philanthropic purposes, but it lies fallow in endowments or under-regulated...more

Donations to Higher Ed Had Biggest Boost in 20 Years
Foundation: Gates Foundation

"It's incredibly good news, the impact these philanthropic resources flowing into institutions will have at a time when other revenue streams are being squeezed more and more." That's the...more

'We want to be accountable': Canva on its struggle to give money away - AFR
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Mr Obrecht said setting up and running the Canva Foundation was a complex ... Mr Obrecht said he and Ms Perkins intended to double the grants...more

Silicon Valley startup culture is changing philanthropy | The Economist
Foundation: Gates Foundation

But charity is not quite the same as business |...more

Bloomberg Philanthropies Pledges Additional $420 Million to Curb Tobacco Use
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Knight Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Pittsburgh Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Truist Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed nearly $1.6 billion to anti-tobacco efforts since 2005.$140 million will aim to curb the use of e-cigarettes among teenagers in the United States.$50 million to...more

Bill Gates says private jet use doesn't conflict with his climate change philanthropy
Foundation: Gates Foundation

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York on Sept. 21,...more

Confused by open-access policies? These tools can help - Nature
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Johnson Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The foundation's open-access policy, introduced for all grants awarded from 2015 onwards, requires research papers stemming from the...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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