“I am very proud of the Gates Foundation’s role in these areas.” I am very proud of the Gates Foundation’s role in these areas. (I fund climate mitigation through Breakthrough Energy, not the foundation.) We have been able to help bring together other foundations, non-profits, govern...
Gates Foundation until 1999, it was merged in 2000 with the Gates Learning Foundation (earlier the Gates Library Foundation, est. 1997). The world's wealthiest charitable foundation, it had assets of more than $30 billion in 2006, when investor Warren Buffet pledged donations totaling an ...
For two years now, Bill Gates has been wrestling with a dilemma. As his foundation, funded by $29 billion of his donations, became increasingly influential in fields like global health and education, it became clear that if he spent more time there, it could have a huge impact on the ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest charitable foundation. Its assets of approximately $22 billion dwarf most other foundations, including such well-known giants as the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corp., and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Gates Foundation gives away approxi...
they used their time and resources. One night in the 1990s, before we started our foundation, Melinda, Dad, and I were standing in line at the movies. Melinda and I were talking about how we had been getting more requests for donations in the mail. Dad simply said, “Maybe I can ...
Ⅰ.FromorganizationsⅡ.ThirdpartiestoraisefundsonbehalfoftheGatesFoundationortheGatesFoundationⅢ.DonationsbyphoneorInternet In2006,WarrenBuffett,currentlythethirdrichestpersonintheworld,announcedthathetoowouldgivealargeproportionofhisassetstothefoundation.Itslatestaccountsshowanendowmentof£24bn,makingittheworld’s...
At the international AIDS conference in 1998, the Gates Foundation announced an initial gift of $1.5 million for its International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. The Gates gift promptly attracted other donations, one from the British government and one from the Elton John Foundation. The Gates Foundation ...
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...
Journalist Greg Palast suggests that the Gates Foundation is used to make tactical donations to hide media sensitive humanitarian side effects of treaties, such as the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which Gates has supported. TRIPS requires countries to ...
Some of you may decide to work for NGOs that are making life better for the most vulnerable in society. But even if you don’t end up doing that, or to make big financial donations, there are other ways of getting involved. Just the fact that you’re learning about a topic, lending...