Gates Foundation helps Houston charter schools

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is offering $30 million to help charter schools in Houston get $300 million in tax-exempt bonds to build more schools.

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More togetherness now for Bill and Melinda Gates

Since Bill Gates left his full-time job at Microsoft Corp., his wife sees much more of him during the day — but not because he's at home. They work in adjoining offices running the world's biggest philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Gates Charity's Head an 'Accidental' CEO

The CEO of the world's largest philanthropy would have stepped aside two years ago if co-chairs Bill and Melinda Gates hadn't asked her help to manage its growth after billionaire Warren Buffett asked them to give away his money as well, Patty Stonesifer said Thursday.

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Gates Foundation Looks to Fight Malaria

Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.

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Melinda Gates Takes on a Public Role

Melinda Gates has traveled the world with her husband, meeting with the rich and powerful and visiting its poorest in remote African villages. She and her husband share top-billing at the world's richest foundation, but Bill Gates always dominated the spotlight — until this year.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation must have the least user friendly Contact us page ever in the age of social networking. This is all about static email us page. If I wanted to give a $1Million gift, I bet someone will contact me.

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Bill Gates's sprawling Washington state compound is, as you might expect, packed to the gills with bleeding-edge gear, from the heated floors and 20-seat home theater to the X-ray machine (for screening the mail, of course) and miles of fiber-optic cabling.

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Melinda French Gates may be the most ambitious woman on Earth; she certainly has some of the most profound ambitions.

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Nike's chief executive, the head of Unicef and Melinda Gates agreed on Saturday that there's a simpler way to help rejuvenate many of the world's economies: invest in the education of girls and make sure they don't become victims of the global financial meltdown.

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Transparency International (TI) is pleased to announce it has been awarded a grant of US$6.9 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its work to promote government transparency and accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Gaining membership to the billionaire wives' club is no easy feat. Today, there are just 110 eligible 10-figure bachelors, including divorced men, in the world.

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Out of a Laurelhurst basement and a garlic-scented room above a Redmond pizza joint, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has emerged in little more than a decade as the world's largest philanthropy.

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The message to top Microsoft Corp. executives wasn't that different from many others -- written by an aggravated Windows user who simply wanted to install a piece of the company's software on his computer. Except that it was Bill Gates venting his frustrations.

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Is Bill Gates philanthropic Dollars going to waste?

I cringed at the "story" Melinda loves to tell... the one about Bill getting a letter asking to help an American child that needed a kidney. The poor child probably died while the Africans continue to irresponsibly have more and more children.

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Patty Stonesifer, who helped start and develop the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is stepping down, marking a major turning point for the philanthropic foundation.

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Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. ¶ She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working middle-class family. Ray French, Melinda's dad, stretched their budget to pay for all four children to go to college.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is making its first foray into Iraq, funding a new initiative to relocate more than 150 scholars facing threat and persecution.

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In what is bound to stir controversy in agriculture and scientific circles, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has ruled out the use of Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs) in the battle against food insecurity and poverty in Africa.

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Today in Washington I was in the room as the greatest living American received a medal. George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi and others were present. But will you ever hear this event occurred? To judge from tonight's major network evening newscasts, perhaps not.

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A great article. Its easy to have a go at the benefactors of big business. But some perspective is required. Damian Reece always has a good one.

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For starters, cultivate a taste for museums and become a member, not a visitor. At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for example, you can become a supporting member for $250 a year.

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THE Woodstock of capitalism, as Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting has become known, is lots of fun if you like that sort of thing—a festival of love for Warren Buffett, the firm's boss and America's most admired investor.

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Today is Malaria Awareness Day.

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The world's largest philanthropy pours money into investments that are hurting many of the people its grants aim to help.

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Although it has long been the largest grant-making foundation in the nation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing an unparalleled challenge: how to give away more money — and do it much faster — than it ever has before.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday said it will give $500 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the next five years. The contribution is by far the largest from a nongovernment source since the Global Fund was created in 2002.

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The battle against three diseases that are a scourge of sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria – was given an enormous boost Wednesday with a half-billion dollar gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Melinda Gates has been called 'the most powerful woman you know next to nothing about.'

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On the back off Buffet's huge donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation this article on starting your own charity/foundation is quite timely.

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From the page: -- A story is quickly spreading around the Web about a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project that awards Indian prostitutes who get routine health checkups with smart cards for hotel and shop discounts. --

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