Since January 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than US$2 billion to the global COVID-19 response. Our funding commitments for COVID-19 response draw from three sources: ...

Foundation is planning operating expenditures at approximately 14% annually to ensure more funds are directed to the programs and people we serve SEATTLE (January 14, 2026) – The Gates Foundation ...

NEW YORK (July 17, 2025) – Today, a coalition of foundations and philanthropists—Ballmer Group, Gates Foundation, Stand Together, Valhalla Foundation and John Overdeck—announced NextLadder Ventures, a ...

In January 2020, as details began emerging about the potential global threat of a novel coronavirus, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pivoted its work and resources to help address what would ...

The Garden of the Future exhibit debuted at the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London. The exhibit spotlighted the people and partnerships behind some of the incredible innovations that are helping ...

To support pathways field-building efforts in California, highlighting early learnings from California proof points.

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 ...

It seems obvious that women’s bodies differ from men’s, even at the cellular level. After all, every cell has a sex. Yet science and medicine have historically overlooked these sex- and gender-based ...

When Yaw Bediako saw scientists and researchers departing Ghana, he made a life-changing pivot to keep brilliant minds in his country. After a grueling year of applications, interviews, and anxiety, ...

Since 2018, the foundation has made a series of investments that aim to discover gene-based cures for sickle cell disease (SCD) and HIV that can be delivered safely and accessibly in a “single shot.” ...

I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

We begin 2022 at a pivotal moment for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the world. The COVID pandemic has been both a profound shock and a clarion call to action to support the countries and ...