Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced fresh financial assistance totalling USD 1.27 billion to address poverty and social inequalities at the end of its two-day event that saw the participation of over 300 young change-makers from across the globe. The announcement on the financial commitment came over a week after the Foundation in its annual Goalkeepers report noted that nearly every indicator of the UN sustainable development goals are off track for achieving them by 2030. Despite these challenges, the report highlighted opportunities to accelerate progress by investing in long-term solutions and innovative approaches to entrenched issues, including poverty, inequality, and climate change. The Foundation said on Tuesday that the funding will address overlapping global crises that have reversed the progress already made toward achieving the UN sustainable development goals (Global Goals). The two-day Goalkeepers event at the Lincoln Center in New York coincided with

The Gates Foundation plans to raise its annual budget by 50% over pre-pandemic levels to about $9 billion by 2026.

The foundation said it would search for new trustees in July after its two co-chairs and trustees Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates -- announced their divorce

Buffett has contributed more than $27 billion of his own money to the charity over the past 15 years.

Michael Larson won the Microsoft founder's loyalty by delivering consistent returns, often making investments that didn't gel with his charitable endeavours.

Gates's reluctance to take decisive action at Cascade goes against the image he created of a philanthropist and champion of women's empowerment.

The software giant had received a concern in 2019 that that Gates had tried to have an "intimate" relationship with an employee in 2000, Dow Jones cited a Microsoft spokesman as saying.

The couple's net worth is estimated to be more than $124 billion, and includes assets as varied as real estate and rare artefacts.

The end of one marriage has implications for the 1,600 staff members who direct $5 billion in annual grants to 135 countries

Cascade Investment, the holding company created by Bill Gates, transferred stock in two of Mexico's largest companies to Melinda French Gates bringing the total amount more than $2 billion.

Bill and Melinda Gates have promised to donate most of their wealth to charity, but their divorce would be the largest splitting of assets

Melinda is now the beneficial owner of 14.1 million shares of Canadian National Railway Co. worth about $1.5 billion.

Their decision puts at stake one of the world's greatest fortunes and one of world's largest philanthropy operations.

The Gates Foundation has invested $1.75 billion in the fight against Covid-19

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan On Monday inaugurated India's first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine "Pneumosil", which has been developed by the Serum Institute of India

Growing security challenges in recent years have made it increasingly difficult to run anti-polio campaigns in different parts of Pakistan

The Seattle-headquartered Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced that it will offer an additional $250 million to fund the research, development and equitable delivery of tools for Covid-19 tests, treatments and vaccines.

If the initiative, aided by Mr. Gates's fortune and focus, manages to help protect the world's poor from a virus it will affirm the strategies he has promoted in his philanthropic work

A very large portion of Covid-19 vaccines are likely to be manufactured in India through the country's strong and robust private sector partners, said Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman

India's challenge immense in coronavirus crisis immense because of its large population, says billionaire philanthropist