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For 20 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been committed to fighting the greatest inequities in the world. Learn more.
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In 2001, the Gates Foundation became one of the first of...
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our resources alone are not enough, so we work to change public policies, attitudes, and behaviors to improve lives. We partner with governments and the public and private sectors, and foster greater public awareness of urgent global issues. A closer look. Fund research for new policies and financial frameworks.
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The Gates Foundation’s journey began in Washington state. When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched in 2000, Bill and Melinda chose to establish their philanthropic roots at the place they called home: Seattle. Bill Gates Sr., the first employee of the newly formed foundation and an early philanthropist in the 1950s, helped set the ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world, holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020.
As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world.