Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
description: a private charitable foundation established by Bill and Melinda Gates
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Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business
by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words
have made reference to ToIP, which is a positive step towards ensuring interoperability between different legal frameworks, alongside technical frameworks. Case studies: global perspectives The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation talk about the need for what it calls a ‘digital public infrastructure’ (DPI). The foundation says that a strong DPI has three foundational systems – identity
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
in the public eye into a tireless savior of the poor. The primary vehicle for his philanthropy is the Gates Foundation, formerly known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was founded in 2000 with initial bequests of $22 billion in Microsoft stock. Six years earlier, on New Year’s Day, Gates had married
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sporadically, including $2 million to aid refugee health and $50 million to PATH, a Seattle-based global health organization, to help with cancer research. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation came to life at the turn of the century after Gates merged his two separate philanthropic efforts and added his then wife’s name. Its
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2000, after Gates stepped down as the chief executive of Microsoft, the two foundations that he had created in the 1990s merged to form the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and he began directing billions of dollars’ worth of his shares into it. The entity that oversaw Cascade and the foundation’s assets came to
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bgC3 LLC, 105–106, 222 Bhushan, Padma, 199 Biden, Joe, 85, 110, 259 Big Bang Theory, The (TV show), 52 “Big Catch-Up, The,” 278 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, see Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Investments (BMGI), 211 billionaire(s), 15, 144–145, 249–254, 261–274 see also names of individuals Billionaires
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
told me. “They have all the money to do the clinical trials. There’s no opposition to that. You can’t say no to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. No one wants to point out that this is not just a monopoly, but this is inhibiting directly innovation.” Even with diseases that affect poor
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donors. “I felt the full weight of the knee of racism engaging with donor organizations. I almost couldn’t breathe during numerous engagements with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I have heard knee-on-neck stories from many African NGOs dependent on US, European and other donors. Some African NGOs mastered the game and
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open letter to Bill Gates, asking him to listen to African farmers rather than imposing his vision on them. “While we are grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation … for its commitment to overcoming food insecurity, and acknowledging the humanitarian and infrastructural aid provided to the governments of our continent, we write out of
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’s Best Investment,” GatesNotes, n.d., https://www.gatesnotes.com/2017-annual-letter. later weave into its public presentations: Karen Makar, “An Overview of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” Presentation at the Fourteenth H3Africa Consortium Meeting, Accra, Ghana, September 25, 2019, https://h3africa.org/index.php/forteenth-meeting/#1569927279633–30d6cced-5af7; FastCo Works, “Five
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Past”; “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Crossovers Dump $120 Million into Editas Medicine to Advance Genome Editing,” BioSpace, August 10, 2015, https://www.biospace.com/article/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-crossovers-dump-120-million-into-editas-medicine-to-advance-genome-editing-/. pharmaceutical company Schrödinger: “Schrödinger Receives Additional Equity Investment from Bill Gates,” PRWeb, December 13
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patent applications): U.S. Patent Reel, Frame 040775/0094, December 30, 2015, Assignment of Patents from Zyomyx to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Stemcell Technologies: U.S. Patents 7998696, 8304203, and 8765391, Assignment of Patents from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Stemcell Technologies Canada, Reel/Frame 040405/0749, May 31, 2016. a 2019 charitable grant: The Gates Foundation’s
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602, no. 7896 (February 2022): 207–10, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00324-y. CHAPTER 5: TRANSPARENCY glass-heavy design: “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” NBBJ, https://www.nbbj.com/work/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation. headquarters’ opening in 2011: Kristi Helm, “The New Gates Foundation Headquarters Reflects Charity’s Roots—and Reach,” Seattle Times, May 21, 2011
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investigation: Sally Ho, “AP Analysis Shows How Bill Gates Influences Education Policy,” AP News, May 16, 2018, https://apnews.com/article/melinda-gates-north-america-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-us-news-ap-top-news-a4042e82ffaa4a34b50ceac464761957. “fiscal sponsor”: “How We Work,” New Venture Fund, n.d., https://newventurefund.org/how-we-work/. dark-money questions
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is provided solely by grants from established foundations—no government, individual, foreign, corporate or special interest money is accepted. Foundations supporting this project are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.” However, in the actual ethics disclosure forms, Gates and Carnegie are not listed as sponsors. See Catherine Brown
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://commitments.fp2030.org/launching-fp2030. “be in control of their own contraceptive care”: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FP2030 Commitment, August 1, 2018, https://fp2030.org/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation. not historically supported abortion: Adam Liptak, “In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights,” New York Times, June 24
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-gates-foundations-approach-has-both-advantages-and-limits. only around 10 percent: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “DEI Progress Report,” 2021, https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/bill_and_melinda_gates_foundation_2021_dei_progress_report.pdf; “U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: United States,” n.d., https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221. Zaidi has
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Theo Francis, “Warren Buffett’s Estate Planning Sends Charities Scrambling,” Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffetts-estate-planning-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-sends-charities-scrambling-11655811074; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Part VII, 2, IRS 990 Filings, 2014, 2015, 2016. “mission creep”: Mark Suzman, “Warren Buffett’s Generous
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Assets”; “Research Priorities,” Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute. “performative layoffs”: “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Reviews,” Glassdoor, July 1, 2022, https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Bill-and-Melinda-Gates-Foundation-Reviews-E9097.htm. “blind to the costs of this churn”: “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Reviews,” Glassdoor, May 29, 2022, https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews
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/Bill-and-Melinda-Gates-Foundation-Reviews-E9097.htm. Vanity Fair: Eichenwald, “Microsoft’s Lost Decade.” “Micro(soft) Managing”: Rachel Schurman, “Micro(soft) Managing a ‘Green Revolution’ for Africa: The New
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Barber, Twitter, September 20, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20210921144810/https://twitter.com/mellabarb/status/1440004465839456263. reluctant to bite the hand: Sophie Harman, “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Legitimacy in Global Health Governance,” Global Governance 22, no. 3 (2016): 350, https://www.jstor.org/stable/44860965. “the Bill chill”: Harman, “The
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Legitimacy in Global Health Governance.” how much influence the foundation had: The foundation’s influence does not appear to be always disclosed in alignment
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Director: ‘We Don’t Have an Agenda … We Work with the Govt,’” Indian Express, September 2, 2016, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-nachiket-sue-hiv-aids-avahan-nachiket-mor-3008992/. vague grant descriptions: For example, one grant description is “to learn from and apply evidence generated by
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.nytimes.com/video/opinion/1231546145505/a-conversation-with-bill-gates.html. “involved in bed-nets”: Andy Beckett, “Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” Guardian, July 12, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/12/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation. Global Fund: S. Bhatt et al., “The Effect of Malaria Control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa Between 2000 and
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Apr 2015 · 324pp · 93,606 words
with why we do the work’.7 Why does he do the work? It’s a question that’s emerged time and again as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the most powerful philanthropic organization in the world, outspends the donations that Rockefeller, adjusted for today’s dollars, made over his entire lifetime. Today, unlike
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in the US Department of Justice anti-trust case against Microsoft. The resulting Gates fortune, the majority of which is now being distributed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was accumulated in some measure through ill-gotten means’.13 What might nineteenth-century observers have made of today’s philanthropists? Chances are, many would
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, or access to better health services? The answer is: less than you might think. In the second half of the book I focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I offer snapshots of the foundation’s influence in nations such as Ghana and the US, where health activists and parent groups both praise and
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during one’s lifetime. Things changed dramatically in 2000, when the Gates Library Foundation merged with the William H. Gates Foundation and was renamed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The amount of money Gates pledged to the new foundation made the endowments of his early foundations seem like small change. He committed $16 billion
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during the 2000s, his foundation was by far one of the largest philanthropic supporters of research championing VAM techniques. As David Labaree points out, ‘The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has plunged $355 million into the effort to measure teacher effectiveness. Grounded in the value-added approach, this effort is using analysis of videos of
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the ‘most effective altruists in history’. During a TED talk in 2013, Singer pointed to a screenshot and said, ‘This is the website of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and if you look at the words on the top right-hand side, it says, “All lives have equal value”. That’s the understanding, the
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remember the first GAVI board meeting I attended as an observer’, she said: A board member from the foundation made a passionate interjection that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alone contributed 28 per cent of the GAVI funding. That really touched me; that one individual can be so passionate about children … Maybe what they
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Economic Perspectives, vol. 11, no. 3 (1997), 3–17. Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts offers an excellent analysis of this divergence. 19Andy Beckett, ‘Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’, Guardian, 10 July 2010. 20Jackson Lears, ‘Money Changes Everything’, New Republic, April 2, 2007. 21See Dowie, American Foundations. 22Carnegie, The ‘Gospel of Wealth’ Essays, 11
The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education
by Diane Ravitch · 2 Mar 2010 · 403pp · 105,431 words
Literacy (reading program) Ballou, Dale Barber, Michael Barrow, Lisa Bassok, Daphna Bauerlein, Mark Bell, Terrel H. Beller, Ron Bennett, William J. Bersin, Alan Betts, Julian Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation charter schools and grants to education organizations San Diego schools and small high school initiative support for Rhee’s program Bloomberg, Michael Blueprint for Student
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Free to Choose (Milton and Rose Friedman) Friedman, Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman, Thomas Fuller, Howard Gaebler, Ted Galston, William Gates, Bill. See also Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Foundation. See Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gladwell, Malcolm Glaser, Robert Glazer, Nathan Goals 2000 program (Clinton administration) Goldhaber, Dan Gordon, Robert Gore, Al Graduation rates Gates Foundation and in New
The New Prophets of Capital
by Nicole Aschoff · 10 Mar 2015 · 128pp · 38,187 words
. Chapter 4 moves to issues of global poverty and educational reform in the United States through an analysis of the philosophy and practices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The confidence and sophistication of the Gates message is seductive. They have powerful connections and deep pockets. They seem not only to know how to
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Mead may or may not have said this, but it is Melinda Gates’s favorite quote, and it aptly sums up the philosophy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gateses are changing the world. Since its founding in 1997, the Gates Foundation has transformed the medical and research fields for diseases like malaria
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’t Take a Stand on Universal Health Coverage,” Humanosphere, April 15, 2014;Carol Welch and Clint Pecenka, “Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda,” Seattle: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2013. 32Riley, “Was the $5 Billion Worth It?” 33Bill Gates, “How Teacher Development Could Revolutionize Our Schools,” Washington Post, February 28, 2011. 34A longer version
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amid Big Learning Gains,” Education Week, September 24, 2008. 38Eric Holt-Giménez, Miguel A. Altieri, and Peter Rosset, “Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Food First Policy Brief No. 12, San
Philanthrocapitalism
by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton · 29 Sep 2008 · 401pp · 115,959 words
businesslike—the foundations moved into an office building, leaving their temporary home in Gates Sr.’s basement. In 1999, the original foundation was renamed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the library program was merged into it the following year. The merger was intended to enable the more efficient pursuit of what were by
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates · 2 May 2022 · 406pp · 88,977 words
Sequencing Suggests,” New York Times, March 1, 2020. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Oxford Nanopore is now working with: Oxford Nanopore, “Oxford Nanopore, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Other Partners Collaborate to Transform Disease Surveillance in Africa,” https://nanoporetech.com. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder · 1 Sep 2008 · 1,336pp · 415,037 words
Melinda Gates share a joyful day with Buffett on June 26, 2006, when he announces that he will give most of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Susie Jr. drove off to meet Don and Herbert Allen at the hospital. She knew very well that no one could expect her father to
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that one way Susie could choose to deal with it was to turn some of the Buffett Foundation money over to the Gates Foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had grown since its establishment in 2000 to a multibillion-dollar philanthropy. Gates said that 4.2 billion people in the world, most of the
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years. No gift of this size had ever been made in the history of philanthropy. Five out of every six shares would go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, already the largest charity in the world, in a historic marriage of two fortunes for the betterment of the world.16 He was requiring that
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
by Rob Reich · 20 Nov 2018 · 257pp · 75,685 words
an illustration of exactly this phenomenon. When Philanthropy Generates Greater Inequality: The Plutocracy of the PTA In recent years, large private foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have come under criticism in the United States for funding a wave of controversial efforts to reform poorly performing public schools.³⁶ In chapter 4 I
All the Money in the World
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