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 ...

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, Sept. 13, 2017 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched an inaugural annual report showcasing the remarkable progress that has been made in reducing extreme poverty and disease in ...

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 ...

I am pleased to share the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2017 Annual Report with our friends and partners. Thanks to the remarkable dedication of our partners, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...

Twenty-five years ago, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates saw an opportunity to reduce inequity in health globally and in education in the United States. Guided by the belief that all people, no ...

Our evaluation policy is intended to help foundation staff and our partners align their expectations in determining why, when, and how to use evaluation. Because the foundation supports a diverse ...

To extend a youth focused media and social norms intervention in Kenya to support the development of social norms that improve health and livelihood outcomes for ...

Jim Milne oversees strategy and business operations for the Gender Equality Division’s Adolescent and Youth Learning Agenda and Women in Leadership team. Jim has over 25 years of professional ...

To strengthen frontline nutrition and early childhood services through Anganwadi centres, improving access to quality care for underserved children, pregnant women, and mothers in high-burden ...

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 ...

After years of progress toward health equity and poverty reduction, we are seeing a widening gap between countries and communities on nearly all metrics of global development. The development of new ...