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Gates Foundation Moves to Close $750 Million Gap in Global Fund

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Jean-Christophe Bott/KEYSTONE, via associated PressBill Gates in Davos on Thursday. DAVOS, Switzerland — the bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Thursday that it had stepped up its commitment to an international fund to fights AIDS and other diseases, pledging an additional $750 million to the organization. Bill Gates, co-chairman of the foundation, the world’s largest charitable organization, said the group would make the money available immediately, aiming to close a gap in financing of...Read Full Story

Gates donates $750M to quarrel diseases

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Davos, Switzerland (CNN) — The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into a Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday during a World Economic Forum. The concession comes in a form of a promissory note, not as cash, that a Gates Foundation pronounced “gives a Global Fund a coherence and management to discharge supports well formed on evident needs.” “By ancillary a Global Fund, we can assistance to change a...Read Full Story

11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011

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Michael Staton is the founder of Inigral , which develops social software for student recruitment and higher education retention. Inigral recently brought on the first PRI as a venture investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been named one of the top 10 innovative companies in education by Fast Company. In 2011, entrepreneurs and startup activity sprouted up everywhere. Not coincidentally, the Bay Area, New York, Boston, Austin, Portland and every college town from...Read Full Story

Bill Gates is Better Than Batman (Infographic)

By luranski on  From investorluranski.com
I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates. Not just because he’s been wildly successful, but because as far as I can understand, he’s kept a steady head about him in spite of his success. As one of the wealthiest men in the world, he’s also making a name for himself as one of the most philanthropic. Obviously most of us don’t have the kind of capital that Bill Gates has to work with, but I feel that everyone could learn from his philosophy towards philanthropy.  I admire that his...Read Full Story

Rotary clubs worldwide meet US$200 million fundraising challenge

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Plymouth Diver Tom Daley helps fight polio in the Rotary campaign Plympton Rotarians are celebrating some good news with other Rotarians not just in Plymouth or the rest of their district but with Rotarians all around the world. On January 17, it was announced that Rotary International has succeeded in meeting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s US$200 million target in funding for polio eradication, raising more than $202.6 million – six months ahead of the deadline set. Darren Hands...Read Full Story
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –- Fútbol Club (FC) Barcelona, FC Barcelona Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation kicked off a three-year partnership today to energize the global fight to end polio and draw attention to the promise of life-saving vaccines.  
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The brand-new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation visitors’ center will officially open on Feb. 4. The $15 million, five-gallery center has information on the foundation’s work on homelessness in the Northwest, the national education system, vaccines, agriculture and other foundation focus areas. It will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.  
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The Forsyth Institute said today that it will get a $750,000 grant to research tuberculosis (TB) biomarkers through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health program, according to information provided by the institute.  
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SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $7.7 million in funding for 10 new grants to identify biomarkers for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in low-resource settings. This new grant program, Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis ...  
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- 10th anniversary of innovative aid programme celebrates millions of lives saved - - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving US$ 750 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and ...  
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Last week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle organised a meeting on, well, "storytelling". We were there, a bunch of "eminent" journalists, to speak out how to tell important stories in interesting ways in these trying times. That was quite ...  
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates opened a new $15 million visitor center at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Seattle campus Feb. 4, and now that construction is finished, the software titan can focus on his foundation's goals. That means ...  
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