We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

For over 20 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been committed to tackling the greatest inequities in our world.
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We can’t achieve our goals on our own. We work together with businesses, government, and nonprofits, and each partner plays a specific role in accelerating progress.
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Read the latest stories, research, and news from across the foundation.
Keith Klugman, Melinda French Gates, and Anita Zaidi meet over dinner with guests Catherine Nyambura and Dr. Githinji Gitahi joining virtually on a television monitor

The Working Dinner video series: Episode 2

In the second episode of The Working Dinner video series, Melinda French Gates sits down for a candid conversation with health and gender equality experts. Watch as they discuss the inequities that the pandemic uncovered.
A man holds bread being sold at a high price in a supermarket in Lagos, Nigeria on March 15, 2022.

The world food system is under threat. It doesn’t have to be that way.

By Enock Chikava Interim Director, Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A new mother performs kangaroo mother care at Kibera South Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya

This may be the best 'medicine' in newborn care

By Hema Magge Senior Program Officer, Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

Foundation facts

For the Year ended December 31, 2020. Amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars. Value of Grants total represents grants only.