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SEATTLE — Through a new $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Vision plans to provide more than 250,000 rural farmers and hardworking poor in Ethiopia…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI), Tanzania, and the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Uganda, have…

NEW YORK — Women’s World Banking (WWB), a thirty-year old network of leading microfinance institutions and banks dedicated to the economic empowerment of women, today announced a landmark $8.5 million grant…

WASHINGTON — FINCA programs in Uganda, Ecuador and Democratic Republic of Congo will develop deposit mobilization strategies for scaling up savings services to very low-income families and individuals in an…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $38 million in new grants designed to help some of the world’s leading…

BOSTON — ACCION International, a pioneer and leader in global microfinance, today announced that it has received a three-year grant of $5.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…

CHICAGO — ShoreBank International (SBI) announced today that it has received a $5.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and implement a new micro savings…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — Sam Dryden, a managing director of Wolfensohn & Company, will join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Development Program as…

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: +1.206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today three senior staff appointments in its Global Health Program. The foundation named Jaime…

MADISON, Wis.–The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided US$2.1 million in funding to World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) to help establish and test new financial data processing and…