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	Foundation says Gates, wife involved - Boston.com
		Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, will both increase their involvement in the philanthropic foundation that bears their name, the nonprofit organization's CEO said Thursday.
		Bill Gates founded the William H. Gates Foundation focusing on health issues in developing countries in 1994.
		Bill and Melinda Gates are co-chairs of the nonprofit with his father, William H. Gates Sr.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/06/15/foundation_says_gates_wife_involved (487 words)

	Crafting partnerships for vaccinations and healthcare -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		Like her boss, Bill Gates, whose parents were both active in the United Way when he was growing up in Seattle, Stonesifer's strong sense of social responsibility stems from the circumstances of her youth.
		To carry out their foundation's ambitious global health agenda, Bill and Melinda Gates have assembled a top-notch team of public health authorities who have played a leadership role in prevention and treatment of diseases that afflict the developing world.
		While there is no doubt that Bill and Melinda Gates command attention simply by the enormous sums of money they bring to bear on global health, it is how they use this bully pulpit that has the potential to add tremendous value to their philanthropy, according to Stonesifer.
	www.synergos.org /globalgivingmatters/features/0401gates.htm (1917 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
		Endowed by Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda Gates.
		It was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation and the William H. Gates Foundation.
		The foundation made total grant donations of US $3 million to various charities to help with the aid effort for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bill-and-Melinda-Gates-Foundation (343 words)

	Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest charitable foundation, endowed by Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda Gates.
		The Foundation currently provides 90% of the world budget for the attempted eradication of poliomyelitis (polio), the World Health Organization having "moved on" to other diseases.
		On January 26, 2005, it was announced that the Foundation had made a further contribution of US$750 million to the international Vaccine Fund to help fight diseases such as diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, poliomyelitis and yellow fever.
	www.somethingpersonal.com /encyclopedia/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundation (756 words)

	The Seattle Times: Search Results
		In August 1999, the Gateses merged two smaller foundations into one behemoth, moved into the foundation's new Eastlake headquarters and began formalizing their charitable work, which until 1995 was run out of the basement of the Seattle home of Bill Gates' father, Bill Gates Sr.
		Bill Gates is analytical, even mathematical, looking for the exact combination of funding and scientific advances needed to make headway.
		Bill Gates' passion on global health has driven much of the foundation's work; more than half of its grants are made in that area.
	archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com /cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=gatesfoundation28m&date=20011028 (1795 words)

	Melinda Gates Tops the List - WSJ.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Gates acknowledged, "Bill and I are relative newcomers" to the war on an epidemic that many scientists have spent their lives fighting.
		Gates, who worked at Microsoft for nine years until after the birth of her first child in 1996, declined to be interviewed for this article.
		Gates says in an email, gives the foundation work a synergy that is "greater than the sum of the parts." The two email each other constantly, he from his office at Microsoft, she from her office at home.
	online.wsj.com /public/article/SB116371407515425544-FJg9d9mxCU4qYTvU8d3Yl7h_7CM_20071119.html (2137 words)

	Lightstalkers :: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
		This foundation is probably one of the wealthiest on the planet and the work resulting from this job might pay off in the long run.
		I was going to wait until tomorrow am to respond to the rep from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation but she called me this evening to ask if I had received her message.
		If the Gates foundation wants publicity and wants to eradicate Malaria (or whatever), then a shotgun approach, image-wise, can only help to focus more attention on their efforts, regardless of whether the images are seen only on their website or in their publication.
	www.lightstalkers.org /bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation (1315 words)

	BILL GATES, MELINDA GATES AND WARREN BUFFETT FOUNDATION 32 BILLION POUND 60 BILLION DOLLAR DONATION
		The world's richest men, the computer magnate Bill Gates and the financier Warren Buffett, announced a $60 billion (£32 billion) alliance yesterday to attack global poverty and disease.
		Mr Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, recently announced that he would be spending less time with his company and more time on his philanthropic interests.
		Bill Gates says he and his wife are "thrilled" by that and by knowing that Buffett's money will allow the foundation to "both deepen and accelerate" its work.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sponsorship/bill_melinda_gates_warren_buffett.htm (1731 words)

	Gates Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Grameen Foundation
		This grant from the Gates Foundation represents a significant infusion of capital that will empower our strategic plan and the grassroots partners and poor women who are its main beneficiaries.
		Grameen Foundation is a global non-profit organization that combines microfinance, technology and innovation to empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty.
		Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and Co-chairs William H. Gates Sr., Bill Gates, and Melinda French Gates.
	www.prweb.com /releases/Grameen-Foundation/Global-Microfinance/prweb430727.htm (790 words)

	Fighting AIDS Is Melinda Gates' Priority, In Exclusive Interview, Gates Tells Katie Couric That Vaccine Is More Than A ...
		Gates: Bill and I founded the foundation on the premise that all lives on this planet are equal, and we really believe that.
		Gates: Unfortunately, on the front of the vaccine, it is the ultimate solution, but it's over a decade away, which is why we think (it's) all the more reason that today, we really also need to focus on prevention — making sure people understand what is available to them today to stop spreading the disease.
		Bill and Melinda Gates have made huge efforts to fight AIDS in the developing world through the Gates Foundation.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/12/01/eveningnews/main2222879.shtml?source=RSSattr=Health_2222879 (852 words)

	Bill Melinda Gates Foundation - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Bill Melinda Gates Foundation - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, philanthropic organization that became the largest endowed foundation in the world with assets of about $21 billion...
		Gates, William Henry, III : Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
	encarta.msn.com /Bill_Melinda_Gates_Foundation.html (124 words)

	CLIR Awards&Fellowships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to promoting greater equity in global health, education, public libraries, and support for at-risk families in Washington state and Oregon.
		The foundation was created in January 2000, through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries, and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health.
		Led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates, Sr., and Patty Stonesifer, the Seattle-based foundation has an endowment of approximately $28.8 billion.
	www.clir.org /fellowships/gates/gates.html (807 words)

	AEGiS-PRn: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Announces $750 Million Gift to Speed Delivery of Life-Saving Vaccines; ...
		"Melinda and I are committed to ensuring that every child has access to lifesaving vaccines in the next millennium, regardless of where they live," said Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
		One of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's main goals is to improve access to life-saving vaccines to all children.
		Foundation officials have been working closely for more than a year with the key international agencies to identify ways to overcome obstacles to effective vaccine delivery in the developing world.
	www.aegis.com /news/pr/1999/PR991128.html (1185 words)

	Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet: Reshaping Global Health - Worldpress.org
		Since more than 60 percent of the Gates foundation programming is in the area of global health, the implications of a steady source of funds for many years to come cannot be overestimated.
		Bill and Melinda Gates and Buffet through this joint effort have the capacity to dramatically change the scope and breadth of global health.
		For the Gates foundation that is "guided by the belief that every life has equal value," the joining of forces with Buffet presents an extraordinary opportunity to making a lasting difference in global health.
	www.worldpress.org /Americas/2408.cfm (1379 words)

	Duke Receives $35 Million From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		Melinda French Gates, a former Microsoft executive, is a member of Duke's board of trustees and vice chair of its student affairs committee.
		Melinda is a native of Dallas, Texas, where her parents, Raymond French and Elaine Amerland French, still live.
		The Bill andamp; Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2002/05/gates0502.html (708 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Science & Health. Health, Wealth and Bill Gates \| PBS
		It's the same doubt that greeted Gates in January 2000 when he and his wife formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through which he will donate most of his fortune — now estimated at $40.7 billion.
		Recorded in front of a live audience at an event presented by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Bill Moyers' interview provides a rarely seen view of Gates and traces the journey of discovery that led him to dedicate his fortune to sharing advances in health with the global community.
		Moyers leads Gates in a discussion of the leading public health crises facing the globe, what his foundation is doing to address them, and where he thinks the roadblocks are to improving global public health.
	www.pbs.org /now/science/gates.html (390 words)

	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
		The Current emphasis at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is upon increasing graduation rates in the United States.
		While the focus is on mathematics and science education, the foundation has given grants this year on improving professional development opportunities, social justice in education projects with high school students, new schools, and teacher quality.
		The foundation funds scholarships and high school improvements in the United States in an effort to dramatically increase the high school and college graduation rates of the most disadvantaged students.
	www.ed.arizona.edu /adaa/Gates.htm (596 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gates' move signals shift in philanthropy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Bill Gates' deeper focus on his foundation is likely to accelerate its impact in two areas reflecting his entrepreneurial background — battling diseases such as malaria, and on how philanthropy itself operates.
		Gates is on a path that could mean his biggest impact will be on philanthropy, rather than technology.
		Still, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, devoted to health care and education reform, is unlikely to dramatically change its mission as Gates devotes more time to what has become the world's biggest charitable foundation, with about $29 billion in assets.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2006-06-15-gates-foundation_x.htm (585 words)

	Gates' dividend will go to charity
		Bill and Melinda Gates yesterday announced that all of an estimated $3 billion of the stock dividend that would have gone to the Microsoft chairman will instead be donated to their non-profit foundation in support of its efforts in global health, education and equity.
		The $3 billion pledge is based on the current value of Microsoft stock, he noted, and the exact amount donated to the foundation could vary depending upon the fluctuation in stock price during the time it takes to transfer the dividend over to the foundation.
		Bill Gates' father, Bill Gates Sr., and former Microsoft executive Patty Stonesifer lead the Gates Foundation.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/182972_gates21.html (513 words)

	NPR : Buffett Gift Sends $31 Billion to Gates Foundation
		The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a merger of several Gates charities, was created in 2000 with the goal of reducing inequities throughout the world.
		The foundation allocated $27 million to reduce cervical cancer and $31 million was spent to control schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms and transmitted to humans through a particular type of snail.
		The foundation also awards scholarships for promising students to attend college, who otherwise wouldn't have the financial means to do so, and for students of exceptional academic achievement for graduate study.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5512893 (953 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Receives $20 Million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Build a New Home for the Study of Computer ...
		Gates says the new facility will be a catalyst for future computer science breakthroughs.
		Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said, "Our goal is for this new building to be a catalyst for computer science breakthroughs.
		The foundation is led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates, Sr., and Patty Stonesifer.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/040914_gates.html (934 words)

	USATODAY.com - Microsoft's Gates to step back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Gates insisted that the change announced Thursday "is not a retirement." He plans to spend most of his time working for his charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
		Gates took Microsoft public in 1986 and was chairman and CEO until 2000, the year he and his wife formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose assets now total $29.1 billion.
		Gates is legendary for his "ability to motivate employees at the lowest level of the company," says software analyst Al Gillen with researcher IDC.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2006-06-15-gates-microsoft_x.htm (1552 words)

	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community.
		The foundation was created in January of 2000, through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which focused on expanding access to technology through public libraries, and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health.
		A grant to the Task Force for Child Survival on behalf of the Global Alliance was made in late 2006 to undertake operartional research on the issues and challenges to programmes as elimination is closer to being achieved in may countries which commenced programmes in 2000/2001.
	www.filariasis.org /resources/gates.htm (247 words)

	The Gates of Salvation: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Bill Gates Will Be Leaving His prestigious position at Microsoft to be a part of something even more rewarding—his foundation set on eradicating disease in developing nations.
		The Gates foundation has donated more than $1.5 billion to GAVI (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations), a private-public partnership that has worked with governments and vaccine companies to immunize tens of millions of children since 2000.
		Gates first made a name for himself with his vision of, “A computer on every desk and in every home.” He never wavered from that goal, and that’s just how Gates approaches his new work—like business as usual.
	www.healthylivingnyc.com /article/278 (2174 words)

	#12 Melinda Gates - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Co-founder and director of a foundation with more assets than the GDP of over 100 nations, Gates, 42, has devoted her energies since the foundation's founding in 1994 to targeting the world's three biggest killer diseases—AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria—among other scourges.
		The foundation's roughly $30 billion endowment is set to double in size in the coming years, thanks to billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who plans to donate $30 billion of his fortune to the Gates Foundation.
		Melinda Gates was named by Time magazine as one of its three Persons of the Year in 2005, along with U2 front man Bono and her husband Bill, who recently made headlines with his decision to quit Microsoft to do more charity work.
	www.forbes.com /lists/2006/11/06women_Melinda-Gates_7UR5.html (311 words)

	WebWire \| Global Fund Announces $500 Million Contribution From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		The Gates Foundation grant is structured so that $100 million will be provided each year from 2006 through 2010.
		The Gates Foundation’s contribution comes on the eve of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the biennial gathering to assess the status of the pandemic and stake out global priorities.
		Bill and Melinda Gates will speak at the opening ceremony of the conference on August 13.
	www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=18321 (1168 words)

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