Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation home page
1999 Annual Report Home
Letter from FoundersFoundation Overview1999 Grants
Grant InquiriesLeadership
Financial Reports
1999 Grants

 Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Reproductive and Child Health

Conditions Associated with Poverty

Libraries and Public Access to Information

Education

Pacific Northwest

Special Projects

Special Projects

8/12/99
Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation

Operating Support
Seattle, WA
$10,000 (over 12 months)

In support of the 2nd Annual Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation fund-raising dinner.

8/12/99
The Foundation Center

The Foundation Center
New York, NY
$10,000 (over 12 months)

General operating support to help the Foundation Center sustain and strengthen its programs and services, on which many thousands of nonprofit organizations have come to rely.

8/1/99
For All Kids Foundation

General Support
Allendale, NJ
$50,000 (over 12 months)

General support for program activities.

7/19/99
Harvard University

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 (over 12 months)

Annual Gift

7/13/99
University of Washington Foundation

Refugee Study Project
Seattle, WA
$49,249 (over 12 months)

For research into the problems of international refugee relief, complex humanitarian emergencies and conflict prevention. Culminating in a paper and presentation at a conference for 25 major non governmental organization leaders from relief and development organizations.

7/13/99
Heritage College

Library Automation
Toppenish, WA
$200,000 (over 12 months)

For automation of the Heritage College Library to permit remote access by students, faculty and other educational institutions.

7/13/99
Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation

Mary Gates Scholarship Fund
Columbus, OH
$250,000 (over 12 months)

For the establishment of the Mary Gates Scholarship Fund.

7/13/99
La Salle High School

Computer Equipment
Yakima, WA
$150,000 (over 12 months)

A grant for the purchase of computer hardware and software in the Information and Technology Center.

6/7/99
Northwestern University

John F. Neilson Scholarship Fund
Evanston, IL
$250,000 (over 12 months)

A grant to honor the memory of John F. Neilson. Funds will be used to support an individual in financial need who demonstrates a passion for business, a yearning for knowledge, a magnetic optimism, wisdom beyond his/her experience, the ability to inspire and the capability to turn a vision into reality.

6/1/99
United States Association for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees

Kosovo Refugee Registration Project
Washington, DC
$617,550 (over 12 months)

To support the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' efforts to register Kosovar refugees in Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia.

Page 3 of 5

< Previous 10 | Next 10 >

Download the 1998 Annual Report      Download the1999 Annual Report