Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates Foundation Study of Colleges: Yet Another Education Misfire?
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launches a 30-member Postsecondary Value Commission to assess the value of education after high school.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The 2019 Gates Letter: What Surprises Them Scares Us
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Off and on, we have covered the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates on behalf of their foundation and commented on how frequently they have learned a “surprising lesson” they’ve already claimed to have learned—for example, that communities not only have skin in the game but deep intelligence to contribute when it comes to reforms that will affect them and their children. This year, we find the Gateses once again caught off guard.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Gates Foundation Dials Its Family Leave Policy Back
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As the Gates Foundation cuts back on its generous family leave benefits, where does that leave other nonprofit employers and employees trying to find a balance?
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.