News Type: Press Release

Trevor NeilsonBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3100, Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — We want to highlight our shared agreement that the world’s efforts to combat HIV/AIDS must include a balanced approach:…

Gregory HartlWHO/TDR-Geneva Phone: 41.22.791.14458Email: [email protected] GENEVA — On the eve of World TB Day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $10 million to the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme…

Neil BurgessNunavut Department of EducationPhone: 867.975.5600Email: [email protected] IQALUIT, Nunavut — Public libraries in Nunavut will receive a $486,000 CAD grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support public access computing…

Sherry RivaJubilee Women’s CenterPhone: 206.325.2163Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — Jubilee Women’s Center (JWC), Seattle’s oldest transitional housing program for homeless women, has opened Seattle’s first on-site Learning and Technology Center to…

Gigi AllianicPhone: 206.684.4838Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — To culminate Black History Month, Woodland Park Zoo and Zoo & You Teens 2000 held a ceremony today to unveil its African Village murals.…

Suzann Stahl, Campaign DirectorCommunity Youth ServicesPhone: 360.943.0780 Ext. 616 Olympia, Wash. — Community Youth Services begins a $2.5 million public campaign for its new Youth Resource Center with a Kickoff…

Carol RavaBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: (206) 709-3100, Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The U.S. Library Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has accepted applications for the fourth and…

Paul CarlsonCity of Seattle, Office of Housing & Sound Families ProgramPhone: 206.233.7088Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — These new grants are part of the $40 million Sound Families program. Devoted to assisting…

Roy Widdus, IPPPH Manager IPPPHPhone: 41.22.799.4086Email: [email protected] GENEVA — A $1,000,000, two-year grant has been awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to an initiative of the Global Forum…

Allen ClintonCAREPhone: 404.979.9206 Colleen BartonSave the ChildrenPhone: 203.221.4187 ATLANTA — CARE and Save the Children have received grants totaling $3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to carry…