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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 second largest charitable foundation in the world, [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Profile. Melinda French Gates[2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987. Shortly afterwards, she began dating the company's co-founder ...
Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being its ...
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 ...
Bill and Melinda Gates are pictured seated by one another at the GoalKeepers event in New York on Sept. 26, 2018. The pair discussed varying topics in health, education and tech.
Every year, Bill Gates — and, until she left, Melinda French Gates — would hold multiple meetings with executives of the Gates Foundation to approve plans and budgets, and review strategies.
t. e. 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] Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires, and as ...
Bill Gates' ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, is formally stepping away from the former couple's philanthropic foundation. Melinda, 59, announced on Monday that she has resigned as co-chair of the ...