One in three Africans suffers from hunger. And the problem is getting worse, not better. There are many reasons for this crisis.  Read More

Sometimes making grants is not the best way to support our partner organizations. As an alternative or a complement to grants, Program Related Investments (PRIs), low-cost loans and equity investments provided at below-market rates to support a charitable purpose, can often do more to help our partners grow.  Read More

Less than 10 percent of the world’s poor people have access to financial services today. These services—savings accounts, loans, insurance, and money transfers—can help poor people manage life’s risks and take advantage of life’s opportunities.  Read More

Across the foundation, we work with thousands of grantees who are out in the field day after day, and they generate an extraordinary wealth of knowledge about the best strategies and tactics for addressing the problems we focus on.  Read More

In the past 50 years, plant breeders have made amazing advances, developing crops that are more nutritious and less susceptible to drought and disease.  Read More

In 2006, more than 4 million people worldwide became infected with HIV—the equivalent of nearly 11,000 people every day.  Read More

2006 marked the 25th year we have known about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the world is still far from developing an effective vaccine against it.  Read More

A critical barrier to fighting HIV/AIDS in developing countries is a lack of information. Many people don’t know how to protect themselves and their families from becoming infected, and they don’t know about the options available to people living with the disease.  Read More

Every year, nearly 2 million people die from tuberculosis. The tools we have to fight the disease are woefully inadequate.  Read More

One of the reasons diseases that barely exist in developed countries kill, disfigure, or debilitate so many people in developing countries is that these diseases have not received the attention they deserve.  Read More

The Gulf Coast hurricanes in the summer of 2005 damaged or destroyed more than 150 public libraries.  Read More

New York City is overhauling its public schools, replacing some of the least-successful schools in the district with new, smaller, and more rigorous ones.  Read More

Since 2000, we’ve been addressing the problem of family homelessness in Washington state with an innovative approach called supportive housing—affordable housing paired with on-site services like domestic-violence counseling, job coaching, and parenting-skills training.  Read More

Many people don’t know that, nationwide, more than 30 percent of students don’t graduate on schedule.  Read More

We have set ambitious national goals for improving college-ready graduation rates—increasing the number of young people who graduate high schools with the skills and knowledge necessary for college and work—and we cannot do it alone.  Read More