News Type: Press Release

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Phone: 206.709.3400 Email: [email protected]  Kari ShawSeattle CenterPhone: 206.386.1974 SEATTLE — The Seattle Center and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the…

NEW YORK — A report examining the first group of the new small high schools in New York City that opened four years ago finds that those schools are making…

DAVOS, Switzerland — New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the GAVI Alliance, a groundbreaking global initiative to increase access to children’s vaccines, has brought immunization rates to…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s U.S. Libraries initiative today announced a new five-year commitment to help U.S. public libraries serving…

ATLANTA — Emory University, in partnership with Finland’s National Public Health Institute, KTL (Kansanterveyslaitos), has received a five-year grant of nearly $20 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to…

EVANSTON, Ill. — Public libraries build a community’s capacity for economic activity and resiliency, says a new study from the Urban Institute. Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development…

NEW YORK — The Treatment Action Group (TAG) announced today it has been awarded a four-year, $4,736,587 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its TB/HIV Advocacy Project…

Editor’s note: To learn more about our approach to the way the foundation’s endowment is invested, please see Our Investment Philosophy. January 11, 2007 I want to take this opportunity…

WESTPORT, CT — Save the Children announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a water and sanitation project in…

Laura GallagherThe Schistosomiasis Control InitiativePhone: +44.0.207.594.6702 Dr. Eric OttesenThe Task Force for Child Survival and DevelopmentPhone: 404.687.5604 Dennis Da CostaInternational Trachoma InitiativePhone: 212.490.6460, ext. 34 The fight against neglected tropical diseases…