Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
What does the future of health care look like?
Ideas
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2024 Gates Foundation Annual Letter
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed to spending $8.6 billion in 2024 to help meet mounting needs and fund innovative ways to save and improve lives. Many philanthropists are stepping up, but this extraordinary moment requires more: more urgency, more resources, and more bold, new ideas from around the world.
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Foundation facts
For the year ended December 31, 2022. Amount in U.S. dollars.
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Our role
For 20 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been committed to fighting the greatest inequities in the world.
How we work
We are focused on results. Those that can be measured. And those measured in ways beyond numbers.
