News Type: Press Release

NEW HAVEN, Conn.–Yale University has received a $7.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Microsavings & Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII), a research effort designed…

CHICAGO–ShoreBank International Ltd. (SBI) announced today that it has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a newly-established local enterprise build a highly…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] Seattle, November 16, 2010 — Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today hailed a historic moment that will…

WASHINGTON–The World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a new effort to better understand how the world’s poor save, borrow and make payments. Through an $11…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania–Vodacom Tanzania is to receive a 4.8 million US dollars grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to augment financial inclusion in Tanzania through increased usage…

BRUSSELS, Belgium–WSBI, the World Savings Banks Institute, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will assist about ten of its members to develop projects to increase affordable, accessible,…

WASHINGTON–Ground-breaking mobile and agent banking programs have enabled poor people from Kenya to the Philippines to access financial services for the first time. CGAP today announced a further 3 year…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 65 grants of US$100,000 each to pursue bold ideas for transforming health in…

LONDON–The three-year award has been made to the Agriculture for Impact team in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, whose work is focused on finding methods for…

LOS ANGELES — International Medical Corps received a $700,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to respond to a deadly cholera outbreak in northern Cameroon. The response will…