News Type: Press Release

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] NEW YORK — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, and Melinda Gates, co-chair…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — Frank Rijsberman, a philanthropic program director at Google.org, will join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program as director of…

NEW ORLEANS, La. — Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA), in partnership with the University of Haiti, will assess the impact of humanitarian aid in Haiti and whether it…

The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world’s attention on global development. The site will provide…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Phone: +1.206.709.3400 Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — An unusually heavy monsoon season this summer caused the worst flooding in Pakistan in more than 80 years. As…

DENVER — Water For People, a nonprofit international development organization, announced today receipt of a $5.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support their innovative Sanitation…

WASHINGTON — TechnoServe is helping to grow the incomes of tens of thousands of small-scale farmers in southern Africa by promoting the development of a local soy industry, through a grant…

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. — Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth NJ USA today announced the Merck Company Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing an additional $60 million…

WASHINGTON — Thirty years after the eradication of smallpox, global health policymakers, practitioners and advocates have gathered to discuss the massive campaign to eradicate humanity’s greatest killer and how the…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the opening of Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, a $100 million grant…