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     • About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.
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   What is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?

   • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which will change its name to the Gates Foundation, is one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world. As of December 2023, its endowment was $75.2 billion, thanks to donations from Gates and the billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

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   How much money does the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation make?

   • Since its founding in 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has grown into one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations, paying out a total of $77.6 billion in grants through the end of 2023.

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   How did Melinda Gates start her philanthropic life?

   • She began her philanthropic life in 1997, one year after she left her job at Microsoft, cofounding the Gates Library Foundation with her then-husband, Bill Gates. The foundation’s mission was to help US public libraries offer free internet access, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates’ Foundation’s website.

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   Who is Bill & Melinda Gates?

   • Melinda Gates (born August 15, 1964, Dallas, Texas, U.S.) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her then husband, Microsoft Corporation cofounder Bill Gates —founded the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She first became interested in computers when a seventh-grade teacher placed her in an advanced math class.

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   May 14, 2024 · Since its founding in 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has grown into one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations, paying out a total of $77.6 billion in grants...

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   May 15, 2024 · Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit shone of the largest philanthropic foundations in the world that she helped her ex-husband Bill Gates found more than 20 years ago.

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   May 17, 2024 · Ideas. Supporting women’s health is the key to advancing women’s economic power. No country can grow more prosperous or healthier while leaving behind half of its population. Marie Ba tells us what’s at stake if countries do not address the women’s health gap.

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   May 13, 2024 · Melinda French Gates is stepping down from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three years after announcing her separation from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

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   May 14, 2024 · Melinda Gates (born August 15, 1964, Dallas, Texas, U.S.) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her then husband, Microsoft Corporation cofounder Bill Gates —established (2000) the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which became one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world.

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    May 14, 2024 · The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — which will be renamed, simply, the Gates Foundation — is known globally for their work on health initiatives, like eradicating polio and...

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    May 13, 2024 · Melinda French Gates is leaving the behemoth foundation she and her former husband, Bill Gates, founded nearly a quarter-century ago to devote herself fully to her work on behalf of women...