LONDON -- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine today received a $40 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new treatments and preventive measures for malaria.

SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced three grants totaling $258.3 million for advanced development of a malaria vaccine, new drugs, and innovative mosquito control methods to ...

The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world's attention on global development. The site will provide a new space for ...

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, today announced the formation of the Gates Library Foundation—a nonprofit organization dedicated to partnering with U ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $22 million investment in the NewSchools Venture Fund to increase the number of high-quality charter schools around the country ...

LONDON -- Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., made the following statement on receiving an honorary knighthood ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

From early childhood, we each saw how our parents helped out in our local communities, and we were taught that anything is possible. Unfortunately, factors outside of anyone’s control make it hard for ...

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When you ask women, “What are the barriers to improving your family’s income?” you learn something surprising. All around the world, in low-, middle-, and high-income countries, they cite the same ...

Our foundation works with partners, grantees, and governments in 144 countries on urgent issues in global health and development. Our program leaders and other experts can offer perspective and ...

In the 1990s, Zimbabwe had one dry year every five years. Now it is once every two years, and sometimes the dry years are back-to-back. I have been involved with smallholder farming my entire life.