One way to show your love on Mother's Day is to pay homage to those mothers, both well-known and not-known, who keep trucking away, despite the odds and the opposition.
Peter J. Donaldson | Posted 05.09.2012
This Mother's Day, visit your mother, send a card, thank her for her favors, and forgive her faults. But in addition, honor your mother by doing something for mothers less fortunate than your own.
The Daily Beast | Posted 05.07.2012
In the 12 years since Melinda Gates and her husband, Bill, created the Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic organization, she has done ...
Melinda Gates | Posted 04.11.2012
Hundreds of millions of the poorest families in developing countries don't have access to contraceptives that can change their lives -- and their children's lives.
Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 05.08.2012
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. This doesn't diminish the work that they do. Still, women must have a place at the table that is not based on their relationships to powerful men.
Posted 02.27.2012
From the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the FLOTUS, we've chosen some heavy-hitters to make our list of the top 10 most-powerful women in the worl...
AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 03.27.2012
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Bill Gates pledged $750 million on Thursday to fight three killer diseases and rescue a beleaguered health fund whose financial ...
Melinda Gates | Posted 01.14.2012
A report released this week from Johns Hopkins University examines progress on several interventions in the 15 countries with the most child pneumonia deaths.
Melinda Gates | Posted 01.02.2012
The fact that almost 8 million children still die each year highlights the tremendous amount of work that lies ahead. How will we continue to bring this number down?
John Merrow | Posted 11.28.2011
I think it's fair to say that Education Nation is close to achieving that lofty 'must attend' status, no small feat for an enterprise that stumbled so badly out of the gate and is only two years old.
Melinda Gates | Posted 11.23.2011
Almost everyone has a warm memory of an instructor who inspired us, challenged us and believed in our potential. I still think about my favorite teacher, Mrs. Bauer, who changed my life.
Melinda Gates | Posted 11.15.2011
Today, millions of preventable child deaths and hundreds of thousands of needless maternal deaths still occur each year. To dramatically reduce these deaths, the world desperately needs more heroes on the front lines.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 10.15.2011
In a world of around 6.93 billion people, chances are it's someone famous' birthday everyday. Will it be your favorite TV personality? Maybe an im...
AP | By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 09.12.2011
SEATTLE -- Using microwaves to kill malaria parasites and developing a way to give fetuses immunity to HIV are among the dozen ideas the Bill & Melind...
Michael Likosky | Posted 09.05.2011
Tough economic times demand that not only foundations but also individuals and governments embrace this leveraging. I call this new approach to giving Crisis Philanthropy.
Jill Di Donato | Posted 08.16.2011
A year after South African doctor Sonnet Ehlers introduced the Rape-aXe, some interesting questions arise about the "Venus Flytrap" condom, and how it might serve cosmopolitan women in the U.S.
Posted 08.13.2011
You might have heard that Bill Gates and Bono are buddies -- the two philanthropists, along with Melinda Gates, were named Time's 2005 persons of the ...
Melinda Gates | Posted 08.05.2011
Now that several vaccine manufacturers are offering their vaccines at much lower costs, GAVI Alliance will be able to roll out the rotavirus vaccine, as well as other vaccines, for the first time ever in many of the poorest countries.
Suzanne Skees | Posted 07.31.2011
For Warren Buffet and me, giving feels really good, because the truth is, we receive more than the supposed recipient. This thing we call "love of humankind," philanthropy, infuses our whole being with love of self.
AP | DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 07.09.2011
What do dozens of American billionaires talk about when they get together? Their topic this week was of course money; not how to make it, but how to g...
Melinda Gates | Posted 07.06.2011
I recently sat down with foundation staff member Amie Newman to answer some of her questions about maternal health. It's a topic about which I am passionate.
Melinda Gates | Posted 06.18.2011
Stillbirth is a devastating occurrence for families. Oftentimes mothers must suffer through this tragedy alone, facing blame, isolation and pressure to become pregnant again soon.
Stephen Paletta | Posted 06.12.2011
Why are we only celebrating the "big dogs" as philanthropists? Does it always come down to money?
Melinda Gates | Posted 05.25.2011
I am filled with tremendous optimism mostly due to one fact: while we here at the foundation might be working hard to help lift people out of poverty, the poor are working harder.
Shannon Galpin | Posted 05.25.2011
Tuesday was International Women's Day, and celebrations were in full effect around the world, where for many countries, it's a national holiday. Sinc...
Suzanne Ehlers | Posted 05.11.2012