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	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		At a Save the Children event, co-chair Melinda Gates reflects on the lives of mothers and children in the developing countries she visits.
		She urges U.S. politicians and others to help prevent the annual deaths of 10 million children, most of whom die needlessly from preventable diseases.
		Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world.
	www.gatesfoundation.org (107 words)

	Melinda Gates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melinda Gates (right), was one of TIME Magazine's Persons of the Year in 2005.
		Melinda Gates (born Melinda French on August 15, 1964) is a former Microsoft employee who was the product unit manager of Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Encarta, and Microsoft Expedia.
		Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, where she was valedictorian of her class at Ursuline Academy of Dallas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melinda_Gates (291 words)

	Bill Gates' Web Site - Biography of Bill Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.
		He and his wife, Melinda, have endowed a foundation with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people.
		Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates.
	www.microsoft.com /billgates/bio.asp (580 words)

	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was endowed by Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda Gates in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation and the William H. Gates Foundation.
		Bill and Melinda Gates, along with the singer Bono, were named by TIME as Persons of the Year 2005 for their charitable work.
		In the case of Bill and Melinda Gates, the work referenced was that of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation (709 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Melinda Gates Joins Washington Post Co. as Director
		Melinda Gates was traveling yesterday and unavailable for comment, but Gates family spokesman Joe Cerrell said, "I think Melinda's business background combined with her current role in shaping the direction of the Gates Foundation should be a valuable contribution to this board."
		Melinda Gates, a 40-year-old Texan, joins other prominent Post Co. board members, including interactive shopping guru Barry Diller, former White House budget director Alice M. Rivlin and Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman whose wealth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $43 billion.
		Melinda Gates also was on the board of trustees of her alma mater, Duke University, where she earned a computer science degree, and has been an adviser to ThirdAge Inc., an online content company that caters to baby boomers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A9709-2004Sep9?language=printer (748 words)

	Bill and Melinda Gates -- people of the year?
		Bill and Melinda Gates are co-chairs of a foundation which is "committed to promoting greater equity in global health, education, public libraries and support for at-risk families." Because of this, I have to believe that the Gateses have their hearts in the right place.
		Melinda Gates is a professed Catholic, yet she aids in funding these groups that want nothing more than to harm the Catholic Church and suppress its teachings.
		Melinda Gates has a tremendous opportunity to make a difference by supporting real pro-family organizations rather than those who support the killing of children.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/dolle/051222 (861 words)

	KOMO : One-On-One With Melinda Gates
		Melinda Gates is intently private and protective of her family, but she gave me the extraordinary opportunity to talk with her one-on-one to help spread her message.
		Melinda gates travels tens of thousands of miles each year checking out programs the Gates Foundation is supporting.
		Melinda is spreading her own sense of self-worth and value to these kids, as well as her own three children.
	www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=33816 (970 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Bill Gates: billionaire philanthropist
		Set up in 2000 by Mr Gates and his wife Melinda from the merger of two family charitable trusts, the foundation is dedicated to promoting greater equality in global health and learning.
		Run by Mr Gates' father, William H Gates Sr, the foundation lists one of its primary goals as "reducing the 'unconscionable disparity' that exists between the way that we live and the way that the people of the developing world live".
		Mr Gates has said his long term vision is to improve the lives of millions of people across the globe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3913581.stm (768 words)

	Wired News: Gates Testifies, Melinda Watches
		Gates said the additional penalties would devalue the Windows operating system, reduce its ability to handle thousands of pieces of computer hardware and software in the marketplace and frustrate Microsoft's incentive to innovate.
		Gates also echoed arguments by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer that a modular Windows requirement is impossible to engineer and would force the company to pull Windows off the market.
		States that rejected the government's settlement with Microsoft and are continuing to pursue the antitrust case are Iowa, Utah, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, Kansas, Florida, Minnesota and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.
	www.wired.com /news/antitrust/0,1551,52019,00.html (924 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 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to promote greater equity in four areas: global health, education, public libraries and support for at-risk families in Washington state and Oregon.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/040914_gates.html (934 words)

	Bill and Melinda Gates – People of the Year?
		That being said, I wonder just how much influence Melinda Gates, wife of the world’s richest man, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, wields when it comes to allocating the millions of dollars she and her husband give to “charity” every year.
		So, from one Catholic woman to another, I beseech Melinda to be the “good woman” behind her man and take a long hard look at the organizations she helps to fund.
		I hope that in 2006 Melinda returns to the code of the Catholic Church and works only to protect those innocent souls who are at risk of being lost by the very organizations she supports.
	www.theconservativevoice.com /articles/article.html?id=10973 (799 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 (1908 words)

	Melinda French Gates '87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gates is from an area of the country of growing importance to Duke and its alumni."
		Duke President Nannerl O. Keohane said Gates "also brings to the board the perspective of a younger alumna at a time when we are making concerted efforts to reach out to the alumni who have graduated since 1980 and who comprise a very large proportion of our alumni base.
		Later, Gates returned to Fuqua to recruit for Microsoft Corp. She resigned in May from her position as general manager of information products at Microsoft to devote more time to her family and charitable interests.
	www.fuqua.duke.edu /admin/extaff/news/publications/winter96/board.htm (527 words)

	Gates couple, Bono get Time award - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NEW YORK -- Time magazine has named Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono its ''Persons of the Year," citing their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.
		The magazine said 2005 was a year of extraordinary charity in which people donated record amounts in response to extreme natural disasters, from the tsunami in South Asia to Hurricane Katrina.
		Time praised the Gates couple for building the world's largest charity -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a $29 billion endowment -- and for ''giving more money away faster than anyone ever has" in 2005.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/12/19/gates_couple_bono_get_time_award (362 words)

	Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		Bill and Melinda are the trustees for the asset trust, and the endowment continues to be managed, as it has been for more than 10 years, by a team of outside investment managers.
		Because Bill, Melinda, and Warren believe the right approach is to focus the foundation’s work in the 21st century, we will spend all of our resources within 50 years after Bill's and Melinda's deaths.
		Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
	www.gatesfoundation.org /Trust (432 words)

	USNews.com: For a healthier world: Bill and Melinda Gates
		The speaker is Bill Gates, the world's richest man. At a gathering in Seattle, he is talking not as the Microsoft chairman but as a partner in an intense personal mission.
		For Gates and his wife, Melinda, alleviating inequities in global health and domestic education has become a life's goal.
		For Melinda, it was a vacation to Zaire, where she was struck by meeting women in extreme poverty.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/051031/31gates.htm (586 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gates' foundation gives $750M for foreign immunization programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday it is donating $750 million to support immunization programs in developing countries.
		The Gates Foundation is the largest donor to the global alliance, with grants totaling $1.5 billion.
		The Gates Foundation is one of the world's major philanthropic organizations.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-01-25-gates-donate_x.htm (316 words)

	AllPolitics - TIME This Week: January 13, 1997
		Melinda, 32, is no longer at Microsoft, and she is active in charity work and on the board of Duke, where she studied computer science as an undergraduate and then got a graduate degree in business.
		When Gates decided to propose to Melinda in 1993, he secretly diverted the chartered plane they were taking home from Palm Springs one Sunday night to land in Omaha.
		Gates quickly flips ahead through the deck of papers and within minutes has the gist of their report.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/time/9701/13/main3.html (3219 words)

	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation (167 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Bill Gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Gates Foundation responded to this setback by providing a $60 million grant in 2002 to push continued research and testing to overcome the problems in the early study, and today there are a number of promising microbicide candidates in development.
		While legally correct, Gates' proposal was unprecedented in a community that was influenced by its ham radio legacy and hacker ethic, in which innovations and knowledge were freely shared in the community.
		Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955 to William H. Gates, Sr., a corporate lawyer, and Mary Maxwell Gates, board member of Berkshire Hathaway, First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and the national board of United Way.
	www.zoominfo.com /PeopleSearch/PersonDetail.asp?PersonID=267246&pc= (7734 words)

	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announces Major Funding To Save Newborn Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Melinda Gates called on governments and other donors to significantly increase resources for newborn health programs in developing countries.
		The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to promote greater equity in four areas: global health, education, public libraries, and support for at-risk families in Washington state and Oregon in the U.S. The Seattle-based foundation joins local, national, and international partners to ensure that advances in these areas reach those who need them most.
		The foundation is led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates Sr., and Patty Stonesifer, and has an endowment of approximately $28.8 billion.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=34490&nfid=crss (1141 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- A Snapshot History
		Bill Gates' first significant contribution was a $12 million gift made in 1991 to help endow a molecular biology research lab at the University of Washington.
		After Mary Gates' death in 1994, Bill and Melinda Gates endowed a $10 million University of Washington scholarship program in her name.
		An article in The Times of London misquoted the elder Gates as stating that Bill and Melinda planned to give away their entire fortune (the newspaper filed a retraction), but the scale of their beneficence was already historic.
	www.historylink.org /_output.cfm?file_id=2907 (828 words)

	Education Update - Bill and Melinda Gates: The Gates Foundation
		As Melinda Gates said recently quoting William Butler Yeats, "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." The 3 R's are now: "rigor, relationships and relevance."
		As much as Gates is a major force in technology initiatives, the goal of the Gates Foundation extends beyond training future workers.
		But when she speaks, Melinda says, it's as much as a parent as a co-founder of the Gates Foundation.
	www.educationupdate.com /archives/2004/september/html/spot-billgates.htm (495 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Knighthood for Microsoft's Gates
		Mr Gates, 48, the world's wealthiest man, said it was "a great honour" to be recognised for his business skills and for his work on poverty reduction.
		The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is currently working on a global health programme in the developing world.
		Mr Gates set up Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen, and by last year was worth an estimated £28bn.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3428673.stm (411 words)

	Global Health Council - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation calls for nominations for the Gates Award for Global Health
		This past May Melinda Gates presented the inaugural award to the Bangladesh-based Centre for Health and Population Research.
		Any organization from any country in the world that has substantively improved global health may be nominated for the Gates Award for Global Health; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company, or a public entity.
		The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community.
	www.globalhealth.org /news/article/1226 (461 words)

	UW Names Ed Lazowska to Bill & Melinda Gates Endowed Chair in Computer Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"I'm grateful to the Gates family for their support of the University of Washington, my department, and me personally," said Lazowska, in formally accepting the appointment from William H. Gates, Sr., UW Regent and Co-Chair and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
		Bill Gates, co-founder of the Foundation and Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, added, "Ed Lazowska is a great choice for the first appointment to this Chair.
		Melinda and I are very proud to support the University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and are confident that Ed and his department will continue to provide innovative leadership right here in our own backyard."
	www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/2000archive/07-00archive/k070100.html (433 words)

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