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.
Has the Gates Foundation learned from its mistakes? Its latest round of education grants gives some cause for guarded optimism.
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.
Great wealth combines with an overinflated sense of philanthropists’ wisdom to threaten those they claim to help.
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.
The Gates Foundation admits that a major educational investment hasn’t worked. What key lessons have they learned from the effort?
This new research institute is structured to get new treatments to those who need them rather than profit from technical marvels.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation continues to push its education reform agenda quietly in spite of failures and pushback from communities across the country.
A very large US foundation sent out an announcement yesterday about a major new initiative it’s funding to address poverty. Buried in the middle, it had something to say about the importance of “narrative” consciousness about “the poor.”
This $76M outlay from the Gates Foundation to repay a loan accrued by the Nigerian government to finance polio eradication is notable not just for its size, but its human value. Five years ago, Nigeria had half of all polio cases worldwide; last year, there were no reported new cases at all.
