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Starting in 2000 with the foundation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and particularly after he stepped down as head of Microsoft, he turned his attention to philanthropy, spending more than $50 billion on causes like health, poverty, and education.
The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program is an academic scholarship award and program for higher education, available to high-achieving ethnic minority students in the United States. [1] It was established in 1999 and funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates Millennium Scholars are provided ...
OER Project is a non-profit open educational resources provider co-founded in 2011 by Bill Gates and David Christian.Originally known as Big History Project (BHP), the titular course was intended to enable the global teaching of the subject of Big History, which has been described as "the attempt to understand, in a unified way, the history of Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity."
Bill Gates says A.I. can be a game changer for education, from lightening teachers’ workloads to closing the education gap.
The books are electronic, downloadable copies and will be available on Gates' website for at least a couple of days.
According to a recent report by Parents Defending Education, during 2017-2021, philanthropic organizations donated over $200 million to about 70 school districts. Still, students at these schools ...
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of June 2022, the pledge has had 236 signatories from 28 countries. [1]
Gates was a good student--he scored almost perfectly on the SAT--and he was from a family that valued education. He enrolled at Harvard at 17, but didn't declare a major and instead spent his time ...