the world continues to do more to help the poorest people. I do the bulk of this work through theGates Foundation, where my colleagues remain dedicated to improving global health, education, gender equality, and more. While I could write a thousand pages about the incredible work they’re do...
By the time Bill Gates dies, he will have given away 90% of his wealth. He created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife in 1997. So far, he has donated 28 billion dollars to philanthropic causes that include: better health care, vaccines, school grants, education. To ...
Bill Gates foundation gives grants to low-tech efforts at HIV prevention
We work directly with countries—including India, Nigeria, and Ethiopia—where our resources can have the greatest impact and where our foundation has a local presence. We also engage on a more limited scale in Kenya, Pakistan, and Francophone West Africa. Everywhere we work, we advocate for h...
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...
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 ...
education and health for the world's underprivileged. The Gates Foundation funds a variety of health initiatives in the developing world, such as the search for vaccines for AIDS and malaria. Its educational initiatives include a minority scholarship program and a campaign to provide computers to ...
grants from his foundation to break up their high schools, and more than 2,000 of them converted to small schools, with mixed results. Some fell into squabbling turf wars, some succeeded, but Gates' own researchers concluded that the students in large schools got better test scores than ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s fingerprints can be seen on every major global health initiative of the past two decades. And beyond the flashy, billion-dollar global partnerships, the Foundation is behind hundreds of smaller country and region-specific grants—$10 million to combat a ...
(Tax rebates don’t really help people who don’t pay taxes—and who pays for your paid leave if you work for yourself?) 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...