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What Does The American Public Know About Aid?

Amie Newman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foreign Assistance, U.S. Foreign Aid, Impact News

It's critical that our news media cover these issues in a way that touches people, and helps people to understand exactly what's happening in the countries, cities, villages, towns, health centers and homes of people around the world.

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My Uncontroversial Idea

Melinda Gates | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Women, Family Planning, Women's Health, Melinda Gates, International-Family-Planning, Contraception, Birth Control, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Video, Women News

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.

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TEDxChange: Looking Ahead to a Stellar Line-Up

Melinda Gates | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Poverty, Poverty, Tedx, Tedxchange, Impact News

There's no greater honor than to take to the stage alongside a line-up of individuals from around the globe for whom I have such great respect. This year's speakers are all unique in their talents and perspectives, but they also have much in common: a strong belief in our ability to change the world for good.

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What Do Teachers Think About Education Reform?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Education News, Teacher Tenure, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Obama Education, Teacher Seniority, Teacher Experience, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Teachers, Education Reform, Ed-Lection 2012, Education News

Revamping the makeup of the teaching profession through tweaks such as altering tenure and teacher evaluations has become a policy debate du jour, one...

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Students In Small Public High Schools More Likely To Graduate

| Sarah Garland | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, New York Schools, Graduation, High School Graduation, New York City, Small Public High Schools, High School Graduation Rate, Hechinger Report, High School, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Small Schools, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. You might have forgotten about the small schools movement amid all the ...

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India Marks a Milestone for Child Health

Bill Gates | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: India, Rotary International, Polio, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Unicef, World Health Organization, Impact News

In 2009, India had more polio cases than any other country in the world. But much has changed since then, and this Friday will mark a full year since the last case of wild poliovirus was detected in India.

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Scaling Impact to Save Lives

Melinda Gates | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Global Health, Developing Countries, Africa, Newborns, Breastfeeding, Melinda Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Newborn Health, Maternal Health, Vaccines, Impact News

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?

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Bill Gates Wins World Food Program Award, Urges Rich Donors To 'Wake Up'

Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Hunger, G20 Summit, Video, Famine, Horn of Africa, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, World Food Programme, Bill Gates Foundation, Impact News

Bill Gates' efforts to fight hunger earned him a World Food Program award Monday, but the billionaire philanthropist isn't feeling complacent. He urge...

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How To #endmalaria With Social Media

Melinda Gates | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Social Media, Global Health, Africa, Malaria, Twitter, New Media, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cell Phones, Texting, Activism, Impact News

We're seeing great promise using communications technologies in malaria endemic countries.

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Gates Foundation To Revolutionize The Toilet For Clean Drinking Water

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Dirk Niebel, Dry Toilets, Clean Drinking Water, Human Waste, Kenya, Africa, Green, Gates Toilets, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Good News, Water Crisis, Sanitation, Gates Foundation, Video, Green News

The newest project from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is set to revolutionize the toilet. Together with the German government, the project ai...

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The Real Successes of Foreign Aid

Bill Gates | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Global Health, Global Development, Impact News

Stepping into the public square to announce that foreign aid is important and effective can be lonely work.

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Nothing to Quack About

Melinda Gates | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Rural Communities, India, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Home News

Private rural practitioners, or "quacks," deliver the vast majority of healthcare in many countries around the world. These providers are entrepreneurs who play an important role in the community.

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Electronic Devices Can Be an Educational Curse or Blessing

John Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Educational Technology, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cell Phones Texting, 21st-Century-Education, Education Reform, Public Education, Electronic-Devices, Education News

We can't pry our kids' fingers off their electronic devices by fiat, but we can channel their desires for communication and companionship into more productive endeavors.

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Leadership + Innovation = Lives Saved

Melinda Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GAVI Alliance, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pneumonia, Melinda Gates, Africa, Vaccines, Impact News

AMC has brought a state-of-the art pneumonia vaccine to Kenya about 18 months after it was introduced in Europe; until now, it took 15 to 20 years for new vaccines to trickle down to poor countries.

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Rotary International Names Dynamic New General Secretary

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Conflict, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sustainable Development, Marshall Scholar, Oiww, Tsunami, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jim Luce, John Hewko, Rotary Foundation, Harvard Law School, Oxford University, India, Baker & McKenzie, Polio, World Health Organization, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Orphans International Worldwide, Usaid, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Impact News

There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, and they couldn't have a more capable general secretary than John Hewko.

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Polio's Last Mile

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa, Eradication, Pakistan, Polio Vaccine, Nigeria, Sendhil Mullainathan, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Foundation, Bangladesh, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio, Ted, Vaccine, Afghanistan, Gates Foundation, Tedindia, India, Impact News

Nobody seems to be saying that polio eradication isn't possible, but the tricky part is the last mile.

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When Plenty is Not Nearly Enough

Julian L. Alssid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs for the Future, Hunter College, College Completion, Knowledge Economy, Economy, Workforce Strategy Center, President Obama, Careers, Jobs, George Washington University, Obama, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Education Reform, The City University of New York, College Graduates, Education News

I am getting to see the kind of education reform I have dedicated my career to promoting become the "it". The problem is the "it" isn't that simple any more.

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Keeping Promises and Delivering Hope to Poor Farmers and Their Families

Sylvia Mathews Burwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Development, Agricultural Development, Agriculture, Impact News

The European Development Days conference I attended in Brussels earlier this month was a smorgasbord for dialogue on international development.

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Charters And Traditional Public Schools: Partners Rather Than Rivals?

Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Boasberg, Waiting for Superman, American Federation of Teachers, Charter Schools, Michael Bloomberg, Diane Ravitch, President Obama, Joel Klein, Albert Shanker, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Education News

Amid the policy fights, it's easy to forget that charters and traditional public schools share -- or, at least, should share -- the same essential goal: to educate students well.

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ABC News Wants You to Be The Change and Save a Life

Richard Besser, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health, ABC News, Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard Besser, Be the Change: Save a Life, Impact News

This week, ABC News launches an exciting new initiative to bring the stories behind the problems like AIDS, malnutrition, poor water and sanitation, and tuberculosis to a wide audience.

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New Prevention Advances: Can We Now Imagine a World Without AIDS?

Jeffrey L. Sturchio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Usaid, HIV Vaccine, Male Circumcision, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Thailand, National Institutes of Health, World AIDS Day, Home News

Because the science is so promising, we urge everyone -- from scientists to policymakers to the public -- to use World AIDS Day on December 1 as a catalyst to build on recent groundbreaking advances.

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Banking on Savings for the Poor

Sylvia Mathews Burwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Financial Services for the Poor Program, Global Poverty, M-PESA, Impact News

If we can scale up financial service innovations like "mobile money," we can bring savings and other financial services beyond the bank's four walls to the doorsteps of the poor.

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What Makes a Great Teacher -- It's about the HOW

Bobbi DePorter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Quantum Learning, Education Reform, Effective Teaching, Great Teachers, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Vicki Phillips, Education News

Unfortunately, the majority of time that's spent on developing teachers is too focused on the "what" and the "why" but not the "how" of creating successful learning environments.

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Celebrating Community Colleges and Their Students

Melinda Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Community Colleges, Education, Education Reform, College, Postsecondary Education, College News

Community colleges are the unsung heroes of our education system. They prepare today's workers for tomorrow's careers, and they get little support and even less recognition for their efforts.

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Overcoming Barriers with Electronic Connectivity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Cell Phones, Nuclear Weaponry, Social Networking, Jim Luce Stewardship Report, Email, Facebook, Raise Global Citizens, Global Citizens, Fundamentalists Anonymous, E-Applications, Kenya, Germany, Barcelona, Following Your Heart, Africa, Ceos, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, M-Applications, Brussels, Skype, Israel, Asia, Maternal Mortality, Josh Silverman, Digital Divide, Linkedin, Economic Opportunity, Goodness, Terrorism, Mobile Phones, Microsoft, Washington DC, Bettering Humanity, Ignacio Mas, Mdgs, DataDyne.Org, Education, Cellular Technology., Colombia, Rio De Janeiro, Health, Japan, Connecting Goodness, Thought Leaders, Favela, Extremism, Maasai, Cultural Understanding, Skype for Educators, Center for International Virtual Schooling, Mhealth, Americas, Jim Luce, Information Technology, Philippines, Internet, Clinton Global Initiative, Middle East, Finance, Bridging Cultural Divides, Communications, Disruptive Companies, Huffington Post, Webcam, money.com, Child Mortality, Bill Clinton, Developing World, Twitter, Meducation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Stockholm, Oiww, Daily Kos, Mfinance, Mservices, Connectivity, Mobile Technology, Fundamentalist Mindset, Palestinian, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, Software, Mobile Games, Jlsr, Long Distance Learning, GSM Association?S World Congress, Impact News

Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.

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