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On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

This article originally appeared on Economist.com. In recent years a quiet but disturbing trend emerged: as countries struggled to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and other shocks, official ...

Before she became a trusted voice in her community’s fight against tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, Nandipha Titana was a shy young woman—quiet, but drawn to helping others. While ...

As a child growing up in Nairobi’s Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, Dr. Stellah Bosire often woke up with a mission to search for odd jobs to help feed herself and her four siblings. On those ...

Access to formal credit is a vital economic resource that many of us in the Global North take for granted. We borrow money not only to afford expensive items, but also to invest in businesses, ...

SEATTLE, COPENHAGEN, LONDON (January 22, 2026) – The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome today awarded a total of $60 million in new grant funding over the next three years to ...

Disease, conflict, and suffering thrive on poverty. Our global development programs create opportunities for people, communities, and countries to build wealth and invest in their futures. We work to ...

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is foundational, re-usable digital building blocks—such as digital payments, ID, and data sharing—designed for the public benefit. DPI spans the entire economy, ...

More than one billion children in lower-income countries have been protected with life-saving vaccines since 2000, thanks in part to a global partnership called Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In 2000, ...

Women in Africa are more likely to be working than women in other regions, and almost 50% of women in the non-agricultural labor force are entrepreneurs. It is the only region in which women are more ...

Bill Gates recently announced that the Gates Foundation would spend $200 billion in the next 20 years. Since we were created 25 years ago, we have spent $100 billion. I feel extraordinarily fortunate ...