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| May 12, 2008 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Names Jeff Raikes to Serve as New CEO
SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has selected Jeff Raikes as the next CEO of the foundation. Raikes, formerly president of the Microsoft Business Division, will assume the role presently held by Patty Stonesifer on September 2, 2008. |
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| May 9, 2008 | East Yakima Set to Help Youngest Residents Thrive
YAKIMA, Wash -- Thrive by Five Washington and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today $5 million for the first round of funding for Ready by Five, a community partnership that will substantially increase access to high-quality early learning opportunities for children from birth to age 5 in the partnership's project area of East Yakima. |
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| Apr 30, 2008 | New Report Profiles Three High Schools That Crack the Code for Effective Math Instruction
SEATTLE -- A new report released today shows how three public high schools in communities across the country are preparing students to be college and career ready with access to high-level math classes and support to help them succeed. |
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| Apr 30, 2008 | CRS Announces Grant to Help Small-Scale Farmers Protect Cassava from Disease
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A $21.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is enabling Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its partners to help small farmers in central and east Africa protect cassava―a critical source of food and income―from two spreading pandemics that are decimating as much as 70 percent of crop yields. |
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| Apr 30, 2008 | University Announces Grant to Boost Incomes of Poorest Farmers in Africa
LONDON -- An initiative led by the University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute in close partnership with organizations in five African countries―Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi―aims to significantly boost the incomes of small-scale African farmers by linking them to new markets. |
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| Apr 21, 2008 | Foundations Pledge $19 Million to Strengthen Newark Public Charter Schools
Newark, N.J. -- Seven charitable foundations announce $19 million in new funds to start and support high quality public charter schools in the city of Newark. |
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| Apr 17, 2008 | Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative—Funding Opportunity
OTTAWA, Ontario -- An "Invitation to Submit Applications" for a pilot scale HIV vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada for clinical trial lots is being released today. |
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| Apr 9, 2008 | City Librarian Deborah L. Jacobs Joins Foundation to Lead Global Libraries Initiative
SEATTLE -- The Seattle Public Library board of trustees announced today that City Librarian Deborah L. Jacobs has accepted a position with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will leave her Library post July 2, 2008. |
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| Apr 7, 2008 | USC Annenberg's Hollywood, Health, and Society Receives Grants to Launch New Initiatives
LOS ANGELES -- Two prestigious new grants, including a grant to the University of Southern California from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are expanding the scope and ambition of Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), the pioneering health communication program working with the television and film community, now in its seventh year at the USC Annenberg School for Communication's Norman Lear Center. |
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| Apr 2, 2008 | Cornell University to Lead Broad Global Partnership to Combat Wheat Rust Disease and Protect Resource-Poor Farmers
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University today announced a $26.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a broad-based global partnership to combat a deadly wheat disease that poses an enormous threat to global food security. |
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| Mar 31, 2008 | Now Accepting Proposals for Grand Challenges Explorations
SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it is now accepting grant proposals for the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a US$100 million initiative to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions. |
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| Mar 26, 2008 | Statement on Noguchi Africa Prize Recipients
The Government of Japan announced today that Dr. Brian Greenwood and Dr. Miriam Were are recipients of the inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes. Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & […] |
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| Mar 26, 2008 | CMS Unveils Groundbreaking Initiative to Transform Teaching and Learning in Achievement Zone Schools
CHARLOTTE, NC -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) unveiled a groundbreaking initiative today that will use high-quality student performance data to strengthen and accelerate improvement and guide classroom instruction. |
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| Mar 26, 2008 | Bulgarian Libraries to Offer No-Cost Public Access to Internet Services and Training
SOFIA, BULGARIA -- The Ministry of Culture and the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) announced today that the planning phase of project Bulgarian Libraries―Access Points to Information and Communication for All―kicks off in April 2008 with a grant of $606,000 provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
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| Mar 25, 2008 | UW-Madison, Lentigen to Collaborate on Influenza Research Project
MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $1.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support research aimed at understanding the molecular features that lead to influenza pandemics. |
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| Mar 19, 2008 | African Agricultural Technology Foundation to Develop Drought-Tolerant Maize Varieties for Small-Scale Farmers in Africa
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) today announced a public-private partnership to develop drought-tolerant maize varieties for Africa. |
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| Mar 17, 2008 | National Research Study on Charter Management Organization Effectiveness to Be Led by Mathematica Policy Research and Center on Reinventing Public Education
SAN FRANCISCO -- NewSchools Venture Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of an ambitious new longitudinal research study to measure the impact of nonprofit charter school management organizations (CMOs). |
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| Mar 7, 2008 | London School of Hygiene Celebrates New Funding to Fight Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
LONDON -- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has received grants funding totalling $46.4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and $12.7 million from other partners, to help find new and effective ways of treating and preventing malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. |
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| Mar 7, 2008 | LSTM to Lead Research Program Into Malaria in Pregnancy
LIVERPOOL, England -- The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the control and treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Africa, Asia and Latin America. |
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| Mar 7, 2008 | Update on Gates Foundation Malaria Grants
I'm pleased to let you know that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently awarded 13 new grants―totaling nearly $200 million―to help fight malaria. |
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