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What can we expect from new Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond-Hellman?
‘During her interviews for the CEO job, Desmond-Hellmann brought up criticisms of the foundation and other thorny topics, to see how philanthropy’s power couple would respond. ‘“I felt like I tested what it would be …
Serious, intense, optimistic: Bill and Melinda Gates at Stanford
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates gave the first ever joint commencement speech in Stanford University’s history in June. Despite the historic and demanding nature of the occasion – commencements are increasingly high profile events to …
Clinton and Gates Foundations join forces to track women’s development gains
On 13 February the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new partnership to gather and analyse data about the status of women and girls’ participation around …
How the Gates Foundation reviews its strategies
At the Gates Foundation, the first three months of every year is the ‘strategy review’ season. We have almost 30 different strategic teams working across our Global Health, Global Development, Global Policy and Advocacy/Communications and US …
Great opening plenary sets scene for EFC conference in Belfast
Peace and social justice are central to everything, said Avila Kilmurray of Community Foundation Northern Ireland in her opening remarks at the beginning of the European Foundation Centre’s 23rd conference, which opened today in Belfast. …
UK’s International Development Committee says DFID should work more closely with foundations
Foundations make a huge contribution to development going far beyond money, and it’s a contribution that the UK government’s Department of International Development (DFID) could help to enhance. So says a newly released report on …
Living with the Gates Foundation: the debate continues
Describing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the world’s largest foundation is accurate but a substantial understatement. Its annual giving is more than six times larger than its closest ‘peer’. There are fewer than …
The elephant in philanthropy’s room
Caroline Hartnell’s post of 14 October, Do we really want to entrust our futures to a growing group of benevolent dictators? Just asking… struck a real chord for me, particularly given the context of what’s …
Cross-border giving – how can we sustain the momentum?
The recently released Giving USA 2011 annual report on philanthropy showed that international affairs (giving) is the big winner – up 18.6 per cent cumulatively between 2008 and 2010. Some may assume that this …
Gates Foundation pledges to match German government’s contributions to GAVI Alliance
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) yesterday announced that it will increase its funding for childhood immunization by pledging an additional €14 million to the GAVI Alliance – bringing Germany’s total …
