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


Gates Foundation prods UN, honors inspiration as Goalkeepers | Health | buffalonews.com
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Philanthropy Global Goals. FILE - Climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda poses for a portrait in New York outside the United...more

Gates Foundation prods UN, honors inspiration as Goalkeepers | National | wandtv.com
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... Health Care Industry · Pharmaceutical Manufacturing · Philanthropy · Philanthropic Foundations · Public Health · Immunizations · Human...more

Gates Foundation prods UN, honors inspiration as Goalkeepers | The Independent
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Gates Foundation prods UN, honors inspiration as Goalkeepers. Show all 3. Philanthropy Global Goals. 1/3Gates Foundation prods...more

Queen calls for collective climate action at first-ever Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit
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AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania called for mobilising collective action and ingenuity to repair the planet, and reaffirmed the...more

This week in Coos County History | Local News | theworldlink.com
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Gates foundation grants computers to local libraries ... The grant amounts range anywhere from $2,380 for the Coos County Library Service...more

Ford Foundation says that it's winding down woke racial equality fellowship - MSN
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He noted that philanthropic support for education is the second highest funding category for philanthropy in the US...more

Gates Foundation Gives $100M to Transform Colleges - Inside Higher Ed
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to give $100 million over the next five ... which issued grants to organizations to help colleges...more

Bill Gates: Technological innovation would help solve hunger - Laredo Morning Times
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Most Popular. Child runs out to pizza delivery man; mother gets arrested · 'I'm not suicidal bro': Man charged with making a false...more

Bill Gates on Progress, Food Technology, and the Battle Between Climate Change and Innovation
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Around the globe, poverty, hunger, and child mortality rates are falling. ... we got the vaccines out to almost all of the children in the...more

Bill Gates: Technological innovation would help solve hunger | Business | journalgazette.net
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Gates points, in particular, to a breakthrough he calls “magic seeds,” crops engineered to adapt to climate change and resist...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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