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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.
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www.gatesfoundation.org
Social Media Links
Facebook - www.facebook.com/billmelindagatesfoundation
Twitter - @gatesfoundation
YouTube - www.youtube.com/gatesfoundation
Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/gatesfoundation
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.
Web Address
www.gatesfoundation.org
Social Media Links
Facebook - www.facebook.com/billmelindagatesfoundation
Twitter - @gatesfoundation
YouTube - www.youtube.com/gatesfoundation
Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/gatesfoundation
Foundation Grants and Resources
Recent News from Gates Foundation
Cornell, Oxford to Lead Grants Aimed at Boosting Iron Nutrition
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Some $7.6 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is going to Cornell to help some of the world's most vulnerable people. The world's lack of iron is a major cause of anemia,...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Some $7.6 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is going to Cornell to help some of the world's most vulnerable people. The world's lack of iron is a major cause of anemia,...more
Biotech firm Touchlight gets Gates Foundation grant for vaccine development - The Times
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Bill Gates's $50 billion foundation has made 70 grants to research organisations in the UK this year. ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS/AP. Simon...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Bill Gates's $50 billion foundation has made 70 grants to research organisations in the UK this year. ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS/AP. Simon...more
'Nanmo' to transform lives, fight climate change - Gulf Times
Foundation: Gates Foundation
*QFFD-Gates Foundation project aims at climate adaptation, ... Nanmo invests in innovative, climate-adaptive agriculture to build resilient...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
*QFFD-Gates Foundation project aims at climate adaptation, ... Nanmo invests in innovative, climate-adaptive agriculture to build resilient...more
Philanthropy Funds Market 2028 Key Insights And Leading Players Smithsonian
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Open Society Foundations
This report researches the worldwide Philanthropy Funds market size (value, capacity, production and consumption) in key regions like North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (China, Japan) and other...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Open Society Foundations
This report researches the worldwide Philanthropy Funds market size (value, capacity, production and consumption) in key regions like North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (China, Japan) and other...more
Donor-Advised Fund Researchers Seeking Data
Foundation: Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $750,000 to a group of researchers to figure out how Americans use donor-advised funds. A press release explains that DAFs, or donor-advised funds,...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $750,000 to a group of researchers to figure out how Americans use donor-advised funds. A press release explains that DAFs, or donor-advised funds,...more
Reimagining Philanthropy To Build A Culture Of Repair
Foundation: Gates Foundation
In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting, Black Lives Matter activists called for the creation of a $100 million fund to help communities of color deal with the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, the...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting, Black Lives Matter activists called for the creation of a $100 million fund to help communities of color deal with the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, the...more
Parents Organization Says Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg Are Restructuring Education Agenda
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Large philanthropic foundations use grant money to advance these ... Those were the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, run by Bill Gates and...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Large philanthropic foundations use grant money to advance these ... Those were the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, run by Bill Gates and...more
Showcasing Bridge Liberia's Education Transformation Successes at Innovation Africa 2022
Foundation: Gates Foundation
According to an ONCHA Report, over 15,000 Liberia children were in the streets performing different forms of child labor, from street hawking...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
According to an ONCHA Report, over 15,000 Liberia children were in the streets performing different forms of child labor, from street hawking...more
Foundations Call for Cooperation, Some New Pledges at Cop27
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
There's a lot of finger-pointing to be done before a global agreement on climate change is reached at the end of this week, but one person who's not happy about the lack of progress is Bill...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
There's a lot of finger-pointing to be done before a global agreement on climate change is reached at the end of this week, but one person who's not happy about the lack of progress is Bill...more
Foundations Call for Cooperation, Some New Pledges at Cop27
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Bloomberg Philanthropies
There's a lot of finger-pointing to be done before a global agreement on climate change is reached at the end of this week, but one person who's not happy about it is Bill Gates. "A lot of these...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Bloomberg Philanthropies
There's a lot of finger-pointing to be done before a global agreement on climate change is reached at the end of this week, but one person who's not happy about it is Bill Gates. "A lot of these...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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Social Enterprise Creates Blindness Fighting Socks
San Francisco-based SWAP Socks is a social enterprise startup that is utilizing mismatched socks to raise awareness and help improve preventable blindness and visual impairment.