Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Gates Foundation Announces $500M Grant for AIDS Research and Care
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is giving its largest donation ever to support AIDS-related research and care.

World Leaders Announce $3bn Plan to End Malaria Deaths By 2015
Ambitious plan announced after unprecedented funding from donors including the World Bank and the Gates Foundation

Gates Foundation May Shift Billions Into Ethical Stocks After Attack on Investments
Inquiry reveals funds held in firms blamed for illness - Decision could influence policies of other charities.

Gates Foundation Gives Aids Scientists $287m
Three British scientists looking for an Aids vaccine will be among the collaborators receiving a massive $287m (£156m) funding injection from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it was announced last night.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Invests $21 Million in Chicago Schools
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made an investment of $21 million in Chicago Schools to strengthen the students’ preparation for college. The gift funds the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative, which will provide for major improvements in high school curriculum and instruction to ensure the students are prepared to succeed in college and career.

Gates and Buffett Plan Healthy Investment
American investor Warren Buffett is handing 85% of the proceeds of his lifetime of canny investment to charity. Most of it, about $31bn, will go to the Gates Foundation to help alleviate disease, illiteracy and malnutrition.

Gates Triples Tb Pledge to $900m
Bill Gates today pledged to triple the amount of money his foundation will devote to tuberculosis research to $900m (£505.9m) by 2015.

Gates gives $750m to fight deadly childhood diseases
Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, has given $750m, his biggest ever donation, to an alliance dedicated to ending deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases among the poorest children in the world.

$25m Gates Gift to Gm Project Under Fire
Bill Gates is to donate at least $25m (£14.95m) to research into whether GM food can provide 840 million malnourished people with extra vitamins and micro-nutrients. But the first move by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private philanthropic organisation,...

Rory Carroll on Bill Gates's Philanthropy
This week, Bill Gates gave £100m to fight malaria in Africa, the latest charitable donation from the billionaire geek who has pledged to give away his £28bn fortune before he dies. But what drives his philanthropy, and how much good is he actually doing? Rory Carroll asks his wife.

World's Richest Man Tries to Hold Back 'gathering Tempest' With £63m Gift
If Bill Gates was disappointed by India's apparent lack of gratitude, he did a good job of hiding it yesterday as he announced his biggest philanthropic donation ever - a $100 million initiative to fight the spread of HIV/Aids in India. But the vast donation - equivalent to £63m -...