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SEATTLE, February 5, 2020 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will immediately commit up to $100 million for the global response to the 2019 novel…
SEATTLE, January 26, 2020 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it is immediately committing $10 million in emergency funds and corresponding technical support to help frontline…
The Optimist sat down with Damian Walker, deputy director of data and analytics at the Gates Foundation, to talk about how the team approached evaluating the return on a $10…
This year’s letter gives concrete examples of the different kinds of collaborations we enter. We hope that telling these stories will help people understand how we fit into the dynamic…
The range of challenges that will be discussed at UNGA is formidable, but every year, Mark Suzman is struck by the rapid pace at which that progress can happen when…
Reflections on Sheikh Zayed’s vision of unity and solidarity, as he believed that investing in people’s welfare, knowledge, and capabilities produces the greatest dividends for individuals, families, and society as…
With young people at its core, GO-JEK is an online platform in Indonesia that uses drivers to provide services—from ride hailing to food delivery. By championing gender equality and young…
This is the number-one question I get from our partners in government, academia, and the private sector. I’ll start by repeating two key principles of the Gates Foundation, because they…
PARIS, Dec. 12, 2017 — Today at the One Planet Summit in Paris, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $300M (around €255M) over the next three years (2018-2020) to…
