Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Women Farmers in the Developing World

Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Dan Silverstein

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.

Gates Foundation Gives $1 Million Award to Cairo's Garbage Pickers

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact


Melissa Biggs Bradley

Garbage Dreams follows teenagers whose methods of trash-gathering yield much better recycling rates than Western methods. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now awarded the NGO profiled in Garbage Dreams a $1 million grant.

For DPS, History Bites Back

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver


Alan Gottlieb

As Denver Public Schools struggles to pursue a consistent reform strategy, the district is encountering a multitude of obstacles, including repercussions from its history of failure.

Mr. and Ms. Gates Go To Washington, Host Roundtable On Global Health Funding

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact


Diane Tucker

The Gateses are visiting our nation's capital to reframe the conversation about global health aid. They said we should spend more time talking about what works and how to measure it.

Bill and Melinda Gates Share "Impatient Optimism" Via Webcast

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact


Although the U.S. sends billions of dollars to other countries in foreign aid each year, Bill and Melinda Gates understand it's hard to wrap our minds...

Melinda Gates: Our Efforts Around The World Are Working

Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact


From Melinda Gates on ONE: This week, I'm in Washington with Bill to do something that might seem unusual: say 'thank you.' We're saying thanks to th...

From Chewing Gum To Chocolate: 76 Innovations To Improve Global Health Backed By Gates Foundation

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living


The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...

Google Founder Sergey Brin Donates $1 Million To HISA, Jewish Charity That Helped Family Relocate

New York Times | STEPHANIE STROM | Posted 10.25.2009 | Technology


Were it not for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, there might be no Google. Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an ...

Howard Buffett Using Fortune For South African Cheetah Reserve

The New York Times | CELIA W. DUGGER | Posted 10.24.2009 | Impact


The New York Times: "THERE they are!" exclaimed Howard G. Buffett, the Illinois corn farmer, philanthropist and down-home son of one of the world's r...

Learning From Norman, and Feeding the World

Jocelyn Zuckerman | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


Jocelyn Zuckerman

If the world learned to feed itself half a century ago, why are there now more hungry people than ever before?

Thirteen Years After Hillary Told Us "It Takes A Village," Melinda Gates Reminds Us That She Was Right

Keli Goff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Keli Goff

I had a chance to speak with Melinda Gates about why the issue of a burgeoning school dropout epidemic is so dear to her heart.

Bill Gates Blogs For Gizmodo

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media


Tech blog Gizmodo's recent "Gizmodo '79" series of posts, which took a look at the state of the computer industry thirty years ago, seems to have put ...

Could This Be Africa's Next Cash Crop?

Lola Olley | Posted 07.30.2009 | World


Lola Olley

Cassava can be made into everything from flour to tapioca and could create a positive domino effect in Africa with economic empowerment leading to a reduced need for foreign food aid.

On World Malaria Day, Commitment to Malaria Continues Despite Tough Economic Times

Richard Chin | Posted 05.28.2009 | World


Richard Chin

The magnitude of eradicating malaria can seem daunting, but there are important short-term and long-term efforts that anyone can support on World Malaria Day and every day.

Why I Wrote Showing Up for Life

Bill Gates, Sr. | Posted 05.25.2009 | Living


Bill Gates, Sr.

I've lived through a Depression, the second World War, and a Cold War that led us to the brink of a third. But like my son, I am an optimist.

Gates Foundation, Viacom Partner For "Message Placement" On TV Shows

New York Times | Tim Arango and Brian Stelter | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media


Now the Gates Foundation is set to expand its involvement and spend more money on influencing popular culture through a deal with Viacom, the parent c...

Melinda Gates Dishes To Vogue

Vogue | Michael Specter | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business


Melinda French Gates may be the most ambitious woman on Earth; she certainly has some of the most profound ambitions. "We are trying to solve hunger i...

Gates Foundation Gives More Despite Losses

Wall Street Journal | ROBERT A. GUTH | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business


In a letter inspired by billionaire Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders, Bill Gates issued a 20-page look at the state of his foundation, s...

Create Jobs Now, but Build Skills for the Future

Julian L. Alssid and Davis Jenkins | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


Julian L. Alssid and Davis Jenkins

Unless the stimulus can be leveraged to revitalize our education and workforce systems, the downturn will likely accelerate the recent trend in which the only good jobs go to those who have training beyond high school.

Washington Network Watch: Learning from Bill

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics


Bradley W. Bloch

Obama's State Department needs to have a core of career diplomats, yes, but it should also draw heavily from the new generation of bottom-line entrepreneurial leaders.

Let's Get Creative: Why Not Ask Bill Gates to be Secretary of Education?

Paul Abrams | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics


Paul Abrams

Bill Gates is not considered partisan nor ideological nor beholden to any interest group, so it would difficult to deny his proposals by raising suspicions on any of those grounds.

Warren Buffett Donates $2 Billion In Berkshire Hathaway Shares To Charities

DealBook | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business


Warren Buffett has given away 512,169 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to three charitable foundations, in keeping with his plan to give awa...

Help Me Write a Book

Michael Kinsley | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business


Michael Kinsley

The notion that capitalism, which is all about self-interest, can be amended somehow to be more about helping others -- and still be capitalist -- strikes many as hopelessly Pollyannaish and bizarre.

Melinda Gates On Dating The Boss, Being Friends With Bono and Buffett, And Donating All That Money

Fortune | Patricia Sellers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working...

Gates Foundation, Chinese Government Launch AIDS-Prevention Partnership

Wall Street Journal | Marilyn Chase | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation tomorrow will launch an AIDS-prevention partnership with the Chinese government, an unusual approach that unders...