An expert reveals what learning may look like in the future—and how to ensure that all students benefit equally.

The world's worst child health crisis is malnutrition. Climate change is making it even harder to solve. To protect the world ...

A Better Way to Go: Toilets and the Future of Sanitation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center is a new exhibition that highlights toilets of the future and visions of sustainable ...

Since making our first grants in South Africa in 1999, we have been committed to addressing issues such as the country’s high rates of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), social inequality, and inadequate ...

Jennifer Stout leads the foundation's effort to create a marketplace of aggregated philanthropic capital funds that can facilitate major gifts to social causes. Since joining the foundation in 2010, ...

When a mother dies during childbirth, the future dies with her. The world doesn’t just lose everything she is and will be. We also—all too often—lose her child. The chance of a baby reaching their ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

Our efforts to improve postsecondary success, which go back more than a decade, puts students at the center and is guided by these beliefs: Educational opportunity should not depend on race, ethnicity ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- The International Vaccine Institute announced today they have received a $40 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funds will be used for the development and ...

Why did Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates start the foundation? Foundation co-chairs Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates believe that all lives have equal value and they have always been determined ...

Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. As co-chair of the foundation, she shapes and approves the organization’s strategies and overall ...