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Bill Gates (2010), Chairman of Microsoft; Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., former CEO of IBM; Donald E. Graham (2008–2010), CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Company, board of directors for Facebook; H. J. Heinz II (1954), CEO of Heinz (deceased) Mary Kay Henry (2022), International President of Service Employees International Union
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from ...
Sub-Saharan Africa buys $23 billion of food from other countries annually. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation takes aim at the global hunger crisis with technology in its sixth annual Goalkeepers ...
The institute has researched giving to women and girls since 2019 and found that while the overall amount has increased over the years, it's never exceeded 2% of overall charitable dollars. In ...
A $40 million investment will help several African manufacturers produce new messenger RNA vaccines on the continent where people were last in line to receive jabs during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and donated some of his Microsoft stock in 1994 to create the "William H. Gates Foundation". In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for ...
Goalkeepers is an initiative launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017 [1] [2] to bring together leaders from around the world to accelerate progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). [3] [4] The initiative also provides reports and data flow charts over SDGs progress since 1990.