The core of the Gates Foundation’s work has always been about reducing this gap through innovation. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning when I think about how AI can be used to get game-changing technologies out to the people who need them faster than ever before. This is something ...
Bill Gates foundation gives grants to low-tech efforts at HIV prevention
Gates and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the WEF in Davos, January 26, 2003In 2000, Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization, with his wife. The foundation's grants have provided funds for college scholarships for under-represented minorities,...
This week, the foundation announced grants of $100,000 each to eight scientists who are pioneering the use of cell phones to improve health care in communities where resources are limited. The grants are part of Grand Challenges Explorations, a foundation-funded effort to jumpstart unconventional ...
Our foundation helped fund research into how governments can repair these holes in the safety net by prioritizing measures like cash grants, food relief, and moratoriums on rent and utilities. This past year has also shined a spotlight on women’s unpaid labor, an issue I’ve written about ...
In 2000, two of Gates’ philanthropic foundations merged to officially form the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has since distributed more than $45 billion in grants. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates money to provide healthcare and education to young people, to help women ...
Gates and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the WEF in Davos, January 26, 2003In 2000, Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization, with his wife. The foundation's grants have provided funds for college scholarships for under-represented minorities...
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, philanthropic institution founded in 1994 by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, to improve the lives of the poor throughout the world, primarily through grants for projects relating to global health care, education, libraries, and the Pacific Nor...
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T he GatesFoundation usually provides money to developing countries in the form of a gift or a grant.However, there are conditions for receiving grants. Governments or other not-for-profit organizations working in a country must promise toprovide an equal amount of money. T he receiver must ...