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Global Health Centers at Boston University, University of Manitoba Share $16.9 Million From Gates Foundation
BU's Center for Global Health and Development will receive $8.5 million, while the U of M Centre for Global Public Health will receive $8.4 million for efforts to improve the health of mothers and their children in developing nations....

The foundation awarded grants of $100,000 to 76 researchers through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which is designed to encourage scientists to pursue bold ideas that lead to breakthroughs in global public health....

The grants will support investments in developing better seeds, improving access to markets, and policies to help small farmers around the world grow enough to lift themselves out of hunger and poverty....

The foundation has launched the Living Proof Project, a multiyear campaign designed to show how U.S.-supported initiatives to fight malaria, AIDS, and other diseases are saving and improving the lives of millions of people in developing countries....

The foundation's investments so far include $20 million to a German company to expand banking services in Africa and $20 million to an international consortium to boost commercial microcredit lending in Africa and Asia....

The newly formed Alliance for Financial Inclusion, which includes more than one hundred central banks and other financial policy makers in sixty developing countries, will work to deliver financial services to millions of the world's poor....

With funding from the Gates Foundation, the Generation Challenge Program will work to develop a platform that gives researchers in developing nations the same access to modern breeding technologies as researchers in the developed world....

The tenth annual award was given to the Fundación Empresas Públicas de Medellín in Colombia for its efforts to provide citizens of the region with the skills and tools they need to improve their communities and their lives....

Speaking at an event sponsored by the Puget Sound Business Journal, Jeff Raikes discussed how the recession had affected the foundation and the importance of risk taking and failure in philanthropy....

The foundation will provide support to school districts working to develop and test methods to rate, recruit, train, assign, and assess teachers....