SEATTLE (August 4, 2025) – The Gates Foundation today announced a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and development (R&D) focused exclusively on women’s health. It will ...

For nearly two and a half decades, I’ve had the privilege of meeting women from across the world and speaking to them about their dreams and challenges. Through that experience, I’ve learned that if ...

to support mobile banking for microfinance in the Middle East and Africa ...

To improve the efficiency of health insurance claims processing through digital tools that support stakeholders and streamline claims settlement, helping reduce out-of-pocket health care expenses.

To support the Empowerment Center which will provide basic services, employment, and academic achievement programs to clients in the Greater Seattle region.

To advance philanthropy in Latin America by developing an AI-enabled tool that helps individuals discover causes aligned with their interests and encourages charitable giving through trusted ...

As a child, Nneka Mobisson looked forward to fun times with her family when they traveled together from Nigeria to the United States, but her father had his own ideas. “My father’s idea of fun with ...

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 ...

In November, Anita Zaidi began her tenure as the foundation’s first president of the newly created Gender Equality Division. She comes to the role with extensive experience as a physician, researcher, ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

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 ...

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 ...