With a wave of nationalism sweeping the globe, Bill Gates contends that doing right by the country starts with helping the rest of the world. Disengaging from the world, on… Read More
It all started when two billionaires went to jail. Bill and Melinda Gates visited a Georgia state prison a few years back to try and understand why so many people… Read More
View this post on Instagram Happy #DayoftheGirl! This year, I’m celebrating with my new friends from @sesamestreet, Zari and Raya. Here’s our message to girls around the world. #IDG2018 A… Read More
Today’s featured stories Gates Foundation announces $15M commitment to map neighborhoods that help kids out of poverty Philanthropy advice from Gates Foundation CEO to Jeff Bezos: ‘There’s no bad generosity’… Read More
Melinda Gates is convening leading tech companies in an effort to dramatically increase the number of computer science degrees awarded to women of color, part of a broader effort to… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the top forces in global health philanthropy, is embarking on a new kind of venture. The foundation announced last year that it… Read More
Traditional venture capital firms are missing out on returns by overlooking women-led startups. That’s according to Melinda Gates, who spoke to Fortune this week about why she’s investing in women… Read More
In the process of giving away their massive fortune, Bill and Melinda Gates are looking to cure disease, improve education and lift millions out of poverty. For that impactful work… Read More
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and head of Pivotal Ventures, was among the speakers today at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, discussing the 21st century workforce… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates answered “10 tough questions” in their annual letter, released Tuesday morning. Later in the day, they answered even more questions by taking part in a Facebook… Read More
Aspect Ventures today announced a new $181 million institutional fund that includes money from Melinda Gates, a vocal critic about closing the gender gap in venture capital. Founded in 2014… Read More
As someone who has spent extensive time in the developing world, Melinda Gates thinks President Donald Trump’s alleged comments on Latin American and African countries are neither appropriate nor accurate.… Read More
There are some of us who feel confident taking on any job — perhaps even as the highest elected official of a powerful nation — and don’t doubt our own… Read More
It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017 as a year to forget. This year has brought a… Read More
Bill Gates is helping to expand access to computer science at the same university where he and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen snuck into buildings as teenagers to program computers —… Read More
If the holiday gift tag is signed “Melinda,” chances are pretty good that that gift will be an inspiring one for any kid with a passing interest in science, technology,… Read More
If you live in or have visited Seattle, and have had access to a boat, perhaps you’ve done the float-past-Bill-Gates’-house thing on Lake Washington. It’s one thing to get a… Read More
Throwback photos of Bill Gates are the gift that keeps on giving. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder turned 62 on Saturday and, as she’s done in the past for other occasions,… Read More
Before they launched Microsoft and changed the personal computing world forever, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent their teenage years at the University of Washington, tinkering with the latest technology… Read More
Melinda Gates is obviously a champion of creating opportunities for women in technology. On Wednesday morning she was in Florida to deliver a keynote address at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in… Read More
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, opened a revealing speech Wednesday by talking about her first love, which she admits “is not Bill’s favorite story.” “Like most… Read More
Her own husband was a self-professed workaholic in his early days at Microsoft, but in a new essay on LinkedIn, Melinda Gates writes about the danger of assuming that today’s… Read More
Reducing global poverty and improving health is the axis around which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation revolves — and the massive Seattle-based philanthropy uses data to measure its success in reaching… Read More
A former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation chief digital officer has filed a lawsuit against the organization, claiming he was misled about the scope of his job during his recruitment… Read More
Tucked away in a far corner of the country, Seattle hasn’t always been considered an epicenter of global influence. But it certainly is now. The success of the region’s tech… Read More
There is an almost overwhelming number of pressing global health issues today. Preparing for epidemics like Ebola, the increasing dangers of climate change, access to medicine and contraceptives, antibiotic-resistant infections — the… Read More
President Donald Trump isn’t the biggest fan of science. He has also been very quiet on the topic of foreign aid, although some within his administration have advocated for cutting aid,… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the University of Washington a $279 million grant, distributed over the next 10 years, to help researchers study the health of populations… 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