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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
In 2000, she and Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization. [3] The couple, who have three children together, divorced in 2021. In 2024, she resigned from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue philanthropy independently, having received $12.5 billion for charitable work as ...
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will change its name to the Gates Foundation. It is one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world. As of December 2023, its endowment was $75.2 ...
Melinda French Gates is stepping down from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three years after announcing her separation from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Bill and Melinda French Gates have another grandchild on the way! On June 27, Jennifer "Jenn" Gates Nassar announced that she and her husband, Nayel Nassar, are expecting their second child. The ...
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has an unparalleled 25-year legacy of working with partners to save and improve millions of lives worldwide,” a Gates Foundation spokesperson said. “With ...
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates is a 2019 three-part documentary television series created and directed by Davis Guggenheim.The series explores the mind and motivations of Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft and founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with his then-wife.