At the Gates Foundation, our values and mission haven’t changed since our doors opened more than two decades ago. We are committed to tackling the greatest inequities in the world, by focusing on ...

In 2024, Cabo Verde, an island nation off the coast of West Africa, was certified as malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), meaning it had gone more than three years without a single ...

SEATTLE (January 16, 2025) – At the start of the Gates Foundation’s 25th anniversary year, its governing board approved the largest budget in its history. The foundation will operate with a budget of ...

David Cantor leads a team that manages bodies of work in areas that include tracking the foundation’s reputation, traditional and social media monitoring, communications evaluation, and insights to ...

In March, with the support of our Chair, Bill Gates, and our independent Governing Board members, Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman commissioned an external review to assess past foundation engagement ...

To develop and validate a wearable doppler ultrasound patch for early preeclampsia screening, improving maternal health outcomes in low-resource settings through user-friendly technology integrated ...

Tom Tierney co-founded The Bridgespan Group, an independent global nonprofit focused on helping philanthropists and nonprofit leaders achieve breakthrough results. Over two decades, his leadership has ...

To improve AI-driven educational tools by developing research-backed AI models tailored to K-12 learning and math instructional materials.

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 ...

Malaria has haunted humanity for thousands of years—its traces even found in the mummy of King Tut. Carried by mosquitoes, malaria is why these tiny insects are easily considered one of the world’s ...

Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...

It’s been two years since my last letter, and the world has changed dramatically since then. Faced with compounding crises and competing priorities, leaders everywhere are making hard decisions about ...