He’s pledged to give away “virtually all” of his massive fortune — within the next 20 years, he’s said— through initiatives like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and his clean-energy investment group, Breakthrough Energy. “Now, I can define my success in terms of empowe...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives more money to education than any other cause in the United States. By Geoff Weiss Jan 22, 2015 Share Subscribe to the Entrepreneur Daily newsletter to get business news, tips and inspiration sent to your inbox Subscribe I understand that the data I...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation FORTUNE: Why did aid to Africa plummet so drastically? Bill Gates: Starting near 2000 and running up through the start of the pandemic, I would say the community—we’re only one part of that—really did a great job getting the food shortages in Africa an...
The foundation’s Family Planning team works to ensure that women and girls can access the contraceptives and family planning services they want and thus exercise their right to decide whether to have children and, if so, when and how many. Today’s contraceptive methods don’t meet the needs...
Gates is personally invested in the issue: His nonprofit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated billions of dollars to address global problems like poverty and inequity. He’s previously stated that the wealthiest people, himself included, should pay much higher tax rates. ...
If anything, his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in South Asia and Africa has convinced him that the world needs to produce more energy — provided that energy is reliable and clean. “I didn’t think it was fair for anyone to tell Indians that their children couldn’t ...
Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has a long track record of supporting research to eradicate diseases like malaria and polio. But Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of dementia that progressively affects memory and other brain functions, is the first noncommunica...
Gates, former CEO and chairman, has been selling approximately 80 million shares annually — usually 20 million each quarter — for more than a decade in a long-standing plan to fund the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. If Gates continues that pace, he will exhaust his Microso...
financial burden hoisted upon the state. This is because the program was only partially funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, which is itself partnered with the World Health Organization, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank, and United ...
SEE ALSO:Airbnb founders pledge to donate billions to Bill Gates' Giving Pledge The former Microsoft CEO and founder has, apparently been reading up on AI. Gate's wife, Melinda Gates, who runs the Gates Foundation with him, explained that she always knows what's on Bill's mind just by ...