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Close-in Support Celebrates Six Months of Next 50 Activities at Seattle Center
SEATTLE — Several close-in partners and neighbors of Seattle Center are stepping up to support six months of activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, Apr…
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Cannes Lions Joins Foundation To Launch Communications Challenge | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CANNES, France — The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which brings together the global advertising and communications industry, is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s…
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Got a Great Idea? Submit Yours to Grand Challenges Explorations | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it is accepting applications for Round 9 of its Grand Challenges Explorations…
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Foundation Appoints Ethiopia Representative | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the appointment of its first official representative in Ethiopia. Haddis Tadesse, who has…
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Global Tool to Gauge Earth’s & Humanity’s Vital Signs Launches in Africa | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
ARLINGTON, Va. — – In a bid to increase food security and decrease environmental degradation, scientists with Conservation International (CI) and partners have created an innovative and potentially game-changing tracking…
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CARE Launches Agricultural Program to Improve Food Security, Empower Women Farmers in South Asia and Africa | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
ATLANTA — CARE, the global fighting poverty organization, announced today the start of its new Pathways program. Pathways will enable 150,000 women smallholder farmers and their families over five-years in…
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Support for Innovative Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Meridian Institute announces $19.8 million in new funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and $1.6 million USD from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID)…
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Smallholder Farmers to Benefit From Second Phase | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
HYDERABAD, India — A second phase of an agricultural research for development project aimed at improving the livelihoods of poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia has been recently…
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Climate-ready Maize Gets a Boost: Phase III of the Drought Tolerant Maize in Africa Project to Reach More Farmers | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
NAIROBI, Kenya –Over the past five years, more than 34 new drought tolerant maize varieties have been developed and deployed to over 2 million smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, empowering…
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Gates Foundation and DFID Award GALVmed $51 Million to Combat Livestock Disease
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Edinburgh-based charity the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) is to receive funding of over £31.2million ($51.5million) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the…