Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Grantmaking areas are: 1) Global Development: to help the world’s poorest people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty; 2) Global Health: to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries; and 3) U.S. Division: to improve U.S. high school and postsecondary education and support vulnerable children and families in Washington State.
titles from this organization
Delivering on the Promise: An Impact Evaluation of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
May 1, 2019
Publisher(s): American Insitutes for Research
Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
Mar 28, 2019
Publisher(s): Media Impact Funders
Benefit‐Cost Analysis of Community‐Led Total Sanitation: Incorporating Results from Recent Evaluations
Jan 1, 2019
Publisher(s): Harvard University
Giving Circle Networks Gathering: A Look at Our Networks
Nov 1, 2018
Publisher(s): Giving Circle Networks
Balancing Work and Learning: Implications for Low-Income Students
Aug 27, 2018
Publisher(s): Center for Education and the Workforce, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Aug 23, 2018
Publisher(s): The Lancet
Networks for School Improvement: A Review of the Literature
Aug 23, 2018
Publisher(s): Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership
Major Internet Companies as News Editors
Aug 15, 2018
Publisher(s): John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Gallup, Inc.
Teachers Know Best: Making Data Work For Teachers and Students
May 29, 2015
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Measuring Instruction in Higher Education: Summary of a Convening
Apr 15, 2015
Publisher(s): William T. Grant Foundation; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Spencer Foundation
Fighting Poverty, Profitably: Transforming the Economics of Payments to Build Sustainable, Inclusive Financial Systems
Sep 6, 2013
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Feedback for Better Teaching: Nine Principles for Using Measures of Effective Teaching
Jan 4, 2013
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Measures of Effective Teaching (MET Project)
Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching: Culminating Findings from the MET Project's Three-Year Study
Jan 3, 2013
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Measures of Effective Teaching (MET Project)
Creating Gender-Responsive Agricultural Development Programs
Feb 1, 2012
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Innovation With Impact: Financing 21st Century Development
Oct 30, 2011
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Life in the 21st Century Workforce: A National Perspective
Sep 26, 2011
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; University of Phoenix; U. S. Chamber of Commerce; California Management Review
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2010 Annual Report
Aug 3, 2011
Publisher(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation