Common Core
Advertising Philanthropic Initiatives after They Bomb: Gates’s New Embarrassment
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Like the heavy preselling of an expensive movie, advertising can boost opening-day numbers, but a film—or a program—rises or falls by word-of-mouth.
Organizational Management and Change
A Lesson in Change Management from the Gates Foundation
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When adding new management staff positions, it often pays to consult with rank-and-file workers, as the Gates Foundation learned the hard way.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Why Smart People (at the Gates Foundation) Can’t Learn
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The Gates Foundation proves to be a great example of management guru Chris Agyris’s observations on why smart people can’t learn.
fighting poverty
Gates Foundation Assesses Progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals
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The Gates Foundation is skeptical that extreme poverty will be eliminated by 2030, as the UN aims to achieve, but it does outline a path for further global poverty reduction.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates Foundation Tries a New Tack in Latest Round of Education Grants
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Has the Gates Foundation learned from its mistakes? Its latest round of education grants gives some cause for guarded optimism.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Study of US Foundation Giving Abroad Raises Key Questions for the Field
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A Council of Foundations and Foundation Center report outlines international giving trends by US foundations. The numbers reveal that US foundations, even when funding international programs, most often give to US groups rather than local organizations.
high-wealth donors
Worse than Wasteful: Bad Philanthropic Habits
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Great wealth combines with an overinflated sense of philanthropists’ wisdom to threaten those they claim to help.
Nonprofit News
Gates Jumps into Venture Capital Fund Scheme for Early Alzheimer’s Detection
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The Gates Foundation has already funded research into Alzheimer’s to the tune of $50 million, but this effort is different not only in its crowdsourcing approach, but also in its financing.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
A Failed Experiment for Gates: Just Data, or a Call for Course Correction?
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The Gates Foundation admits that a major educational investment hasn’t worked. What key lessons have they learned from the effort?
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates Foundation Research Invests in Health, Not Profit
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This new research institute is structured to get new treatments to those who need them rather than profit from technical marvels.