Bill Gates and Melinda Gates

Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

This holiday season, we decided to list several of the charity initiatives that have sparked our interest. Each of these projects takes a different approach, but they have three things in common: they're innovative, committed to transparency and accountability, and they're getting good results.

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Senior Religion Editor, The Huffington Post

What are we to make of the morality tale of giving the homeless man a pair of shoes when the man is not homeless, has an undesirable past and has apparently discarded the shoes?

Calla Gilson

Advocate, volunteer

Year after year it seemed to be the same old routine: after finishing the dishes from Thanksgiving dinner, my extended family members would each draw ...