The Gates Foundation Visitor Center is no more. Instead, say hello to the Gates Foundation Discovery Center. The public education and exhibit galleries, housed in a building across the street… Read More
There are lots of ways to make our lives more sustainable — use less electricity, recycle plastic containers — but how about something more fun? Say, making and playing sustainability-focused video… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation filed a lawsuit against a California-based software company today, alleging that the company failed to deliver on its promise to build a new software platform… Read More
Former President Barack Obama addressed the Goalkeepers gathering in New York City on Wednesday and shared the message of relentless optimism for tackling big world problems that is championed by… Read More
Bill Gates gets a firsthand look at some of the world’s gnarliest problems through his philanthropic work attempting to eradicate disease and improve the quality of life in developing parts… Read More
Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH announced Wednesday that it has received a $120 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at fueling the organization’s development and deployment… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the global health nonprofit PATH are working on a groundbreaking initiative in Africa that takes an unexpected approach. The project is all about… Read More
Bill Gates is once again enlisting the help of his blog followers in his effort to do some philanthropic good. In a new post on Gates Notes titled “Mosquito Wars,”… Read More
Bill Gates already does a good job of blogging about his adventures around the world through his Gates Notes website, and now the Microsoft co-founder has joined Instagram to further… Read More
Complete with cowboy hat, Bill Gates traveled a long way from the bustle of Seattle to witness the innovative techniques being used to raise cattle in the outback of Australia.… Read More
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates announced Monday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up to $300 million towards a three-year effort to fully eradicate polio around… Read More
Edna Adan Ismail wanted to prevent women from dying during childbirth in her home country of Somaliland. It’s not easy for women in her region to get a higher education,… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says its economic impact in the Seattle region was $1.5 billion in 2015. That’s a whopping sum — and the non-profit juggernaut came up… Read More
There’s a lot of things we take for granted in developed countries: safe drinking water, constant access to electricity and, of course, a sewer system that neatly flushes away our… Read More
Bill Gates will meet with President Trump again on Monday, just a few months after meeting with the then-president-elect to discuss the power of innovation. White House press secretary Sean… Read More
Nearly a decade ago, in 2008, Bill Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft. A daily newspaper reporter in Seattle at the time, I had the rare privilege… Read More
Aid organizations and public health agencies are spending billions of dollars each year to save the lives of babies and children in developing countries. But they’ve been missing a key… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates were awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at The White House on Tuesday, and in his introduction of the couple, President Obama… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates have been selected to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — by President Barack Obama, The White House announced on Wednesday. The Gateses… Read More
Bill Gates’ business sense has a lot to do with why he is who he is, but it’s the billionaire Microsoft co-founder’s sense of smell that was put to the test in… Read More
Todd Pierce, chief digital officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is departing from that role after 18 months, the organization confirmed to GeekWire on Friday. “Todd Pierce and… Read More
When Melinda Gates quietly established a new organization last year called Pivotal Ventures, she was expected to further her work on gender inequity and women’s empowerment. In a new interview… Read More
Bill Gates has spent years working on global health and fighting to eradicate diseases of poverty in developing countries, and in a new interview he says he expects to work with whomever… Read More
The White House today unveiled more than half a billion dollars’ worth of public and private programs aimed at unraveling the mysteries of microbes – and Seattle’s Bill and Melinda… Read More
Bill Gates expressed renewed optimism this week that poverty can be eradicated in all its forms by 2030, and that doing so will help the global population confront other “complex and… Read More
Reports on the upcoming Paris climate talks are stating that Bill Gates’ next big project will be focusing on clean energy. According to ClimateWire, Gates will announce the “world’s largest… Read More
Buy the textbook. Attend lectures. Take tests. Get graded on a curve. This is the way most people remember their college or university learning experience. Learners, however, are a diverse group,… Read More
A biotech company that received some of its first major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it has inked a deal to bring its implantable microchips… Read More
In a new interview on Ozy, Bill and Melinda Gates sat down to talk with the site’s CEO and co-founder Carlos Watson about global health initiatives — particularly contraceptives, vaccines and… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this week made its largest private investment yet when it announced a $52 million equity stake in CureVac, a German company developing technologies for… Read More