Board Authorizes Acceptance of $40 Million Grant to Support District’s Plan (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 PITTSBURGH -- At a Special Legislative Meeting this evening, the Board overwhelmingly voted to accept a $40 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [...] Keywords: United States, North America, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release Five California Public Charter Networks Receive $60 Million to Promote Effective Teaching (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- A coalition of five California public charter management organizations will receive $60 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase effective teaching so that more students graduate college-ready. Keywords: United States, North America, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release $90 Million Grant to Fund Teacher Effectiveness Initiative: Empowering Teachers for Student Success (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Memphis City Schools Board of Commissioners approved an Intensive Partnership grant of $90 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the Teacher Effectiveness Initiative (TEI) [...] Keywords: United States, North America, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release Foundation Commits $335 Million to Promote Effective Teaching and Raise Student Achievement (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. Keywords: United States, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release Hillsborough County Schools Awarded Grant to Support Effective Teaching and Raise Student Achievement (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 TAMPA, Fla. -- Hillsborough County Public Schools is launching a groundbreaking initiative to support effective teaching and raise student achievement with support from an Intensive Partnership grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Keywords: United States, North America, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release Statement on Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator-Designate (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 WASHINGTON -- The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah as the next administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrates a commitment to providing strong, evidence-based, effective U.S. foreign assistance. Keywords: Foundation, Press Release AFT Congratulates Recipients of Gates Foundation Grants (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 WASHINGTON -- The American Federation of Teachers welcomes the unprecedented support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for efforts to improve teaching and learning through grants [...] Keywords: United States, North America, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release UW-Madison Receives $9.5 Million Gates Foundation Grant (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 19, 2009 MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify virus mutations that would serve as early warnings of potential pandemic influenza viruses. Keywords: Global Health, Global, Pneumonia & Flu, Press Release Ionian Technlogies Receives Funding to Develop Diagnostic Tests for Developing World (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 18, 2009 SAN DIEGO -- Ionian Technologies, Inc., will continue its efforts to develop a rapid point-of-care diagnostics platform for use in the developing world with supplemental funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Asia, Research & Development, Press Release EIFL.net Receives Grant to Spark Innovation in Public Library Services in Developing Countries (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 16, 2009 ROME -- eIFL.net is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a three-year $1.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to spark the development [...] Keywords: Global Development, Africa, Asia, South America, Libraries, Press Release A Statement Regarding Our New Headquarters (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 13, 2009 SEATTLE -- This week the foundation received a one-time gift of $350 million from Bill and Melinda Gates to be used toward construction costs for our new headquarters. Keywords: Foundation, Press Release $30 Million Credit Support Agreement to Secure $300 Million in Charter School Facility Financing (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 11, 2009 SEATTLE and HOUSTON -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will provide a $30 million credit support agreement [...] Keywords: United States, North America, High Schools (U.S.), Press Release Australian Research to Fight Childhood Pneumonia (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 11, 2009 VICTORIA, Australia -- Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has received a US$1.25 million (AUD$1.34 million) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help combat childhood pneumonia. Keywords: Global Health, Australia/Oceania, Pneumonia & Flu, Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health, Press Release Researchers Complete Draft Genome Sequence for Cassava (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 09, 2009 TUCSON, Ariz. -- A team of academic, government and industry researchers has completed a first draft of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) genome. Keywords: Global Development, Africa, Asia, Agricultural Development, Press Release Emory School of Nursing Receives $8.1 Million Gates Foundation Grant (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 06, 2009 ATLANTA -- Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has received $8,163,298 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a 2 1/2-year project designed to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in rural Ethiopia. Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health, Press Release Seven Cities Launch Collaborative Efforts to Improve College Graduation Rates (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 05, 2009 SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $4 million in grants to the National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education and Families [...] Keywords: United States, North America, Postsecondary Education, Press Release $1 million Contribution to Texas A&M Borlaug Scholars Fund (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 05, 2009 COLLEGE STATION, Texas – An endowment contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to honor Dr. Norman Borlaug, “the father of the Green Revolution,” will help [...] Keywords: Global Development, Global, Agricultural Development, Press Release Keystone Symposia Receives Grant for Infectious Diseases (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 05, 2009 SILVERTHORNE, Co. -- Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund conferences on infectious disease [...] Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Press Release $10.9 million Awarded to Study Impacts of Sanitation on Diseases (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 05, 2009 BERKELEY, Calif. -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. Keywords: Global Health, Africa, Asia, Diarrhea, Press Release Exploratory Study to Illuminate the Spread of the System of Rice Intensification (PRESS RELEASE), Nov 03, 2009 A team of researchers from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, will investigate the adoption, spread and potential benefits of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Keywords: Global Development, Asia, Agricultural Development, Press Release