gates foundation

Gates Foundation Awards $2 Million to International Center for J...

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:50:10 -0600

The grant will be used to establish a fellowship program to improve news coverage of sub-Saharan African development issues such as agriculture, microfinance, sanitation, and employment....

Gates Foundation to Increase Payout, Scale Back Growth in 2009 G...

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:59 -0600

The foundation will scale back planned growth in its grantmaking in 2009 but still expects to increase its payout by about 10 percent....

Gates Foundation Awards $16 Million to UC Davis for Child Malnut...

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:30:20 -0600

The five-year grant will support research focused on formulating and evaluating a cost-effective, fortified peanut butter-like supplement to improve nutrition for children and women in impoverished nations....

Gates Foundation Announces Expanded Education Grantmaking

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:30:17 -0600

With an initial focus on community colleges, the foundation hopes to double the number of low-income U.S. students who graduate from college or some kind of post high school program by 2025....

Gates Foundation Awards $1.7 Million for Mobile Banking Project ...

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:10:12 -0600

The grant to Paris-based PlaNet Finance will support its efforts to provide the poor with access to banking services via their mobile phones....

Gates Foundation Awards $11 Million to CARE for Financial Servic...

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:50:10 -0600

Funded by the Gates Foundation's Financial Services for the Poor initiative, the Save Up program will incorporate some 300,000 individuals into village savings and loan associations in rural areas of Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda....

Gates Foundation Commits $169 Million to PATH Malaria Vaccine In...

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:10:06 -0500

The foundation's latest grant to PATH will support the expansion of the initiative's research and development pipeline with projects ranging from early stage laboratory research to advanced clinical testing....

Stonesifer to Chair Smithsonian

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:00:05 -0500

Starting in January, former Gates Foundation CEO Patricia Stonesifer will lead the Smithsonian's governing body of seventeen trustees in what is hoped will be a new era of stability, transparency, and growth for the organization....

UC Irvine Receives $1.7 Million From Gates Foundation for New In...

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:40:20 -0500

The grant will fund the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion, which will focus on the growing use of mobile technology in providing banking and financial services to the world's poor....

Jeff Raikes Takes Over as New Gates Foundation CEO

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:10:12 -0500

The former president of Microsoft's business software division has officially taken over from Patty Stonesifer, who announced in February that she would step down....