You're currently viewing:

Gates Foundation


‘Troublemaker’ Gates takes up cudgels on behalf of world’s poor and sets sights on polio

Alliance magazine 1 February 2011

Much of Bill Gates’s third annual letter, which was published on Monday, is devoted to polio, a disease which it was claimed in 2003 would be eradicated within the next few years. He admitted this …

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to get $3.7 million from Gates Foundation to develop effective giving

Alliance magazine 7 July 2010

In a development that underlines growing recognition of the importance of philanthropic advice, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) is to get a $3.7 million grant from the Gates Foundation to fund a campaign that will arm …

Reporting from the Global Philanthropy Forum: Thoughts on day 2 – Cognitive Dissonance

Timothy Ogden 23 April 2010

The morning plenary of Day Two of the Global Philanthropy Forum focused on Global Health with presenters from the Gates Foundation, the Global Health Council and the White Ribbon Alliance. For me, it illuminated a …

Gates Foundation makes mega-grant to GAVI as springboard for ‘decade of vaccines’

Alliance magazine 3 February 2010

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced one of the largest donations in history: $10 billion to be spent on vaccines for children in developing countries over the next ten years. Speaking at the …

Launch of Gates’ social investment fund signals change of thinking at foundation

Alliance magazine 7 October 2009

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched a $400 million social investment fund that will provide loan financing, underwriting and equity investments for not-for-profit organizations and businesses with a social purpose. Investments will be …

Gates Foundation to open European office in London

Alliance magazine 17 August 2009

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to open a new office in London. According to the Washington Post (14 August), this is ‘part of a recent effort by the giant philanthropy to build closer …