Alexander Friedman to step down next year as chief financial officer for Gates FoundationOctober 13th, 2009 Gates Foundation CFO to step down next yearSEATTLE — The chief financial officers of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says he's leaving that post early next year to pursue other interests. The Seattle Times reports that Alexander Friedman made the announcement Monday in an e-mail to colleagues at the foundation.
Gates Foundation launches campaign to highlight success of US spending to improve world healthSeptember 24th, 2009 Gates Foundation to promote US global spendingWASHINGTON — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is launching a campaign to highlight the U.S. government's efforts to improve global health.
Airline ticket buyers will get a new way to spend a little more, for charitySeptember 23rd, 2009 Airline tickets to raise cash for UN health effortMINNEAPOLIS — Travelers who buy airline tickets already wrestle with add-ons like cars, hotels, or planting a tree to make up for the jet fuel planes burn. Soon, they may be able to donate to fight AIDS in developing countries, too.
911 call: Woman who reported break-in at home of arrested Harvard scholar doesn't mention raceJuly 27th, 2009 911 call in Gates case does not mention raceCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A woman who called 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Bill Gates: Better data on student, teacher performance will raise achievement in US schoolsJuly 21st, 2009 Bill Gates: Better data mean better schoolsPHILADELPHIA — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the U.S. needs better ways to measure student and teacher performance to improve its schools.
Gates Foundation makes $6.5 million in grants for library computer hardwareJuly 16th, 2009 Gates Foundation offers $6.5 million for librariesSEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing $6.5 million in grants to help public libraries in 11 states improve the quality of the free computer access they offer. The money announced Thursday will pay for computer hardware updates at some of the 800 library branches in Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Billionaire Warren Buffett gives $1.53 billion worth of stock to Gates Foundation, othersJuly 3rd, 2009 Warren Buffett makes gifts to charity worth $1.53BSEATTLE — Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Billionaire Warren Buffett gives $1.25 billion worth of stock to Gates FoundationJuly 3rd, 2009 Warren Buffett makes gifts to charity worth $1.43BSEATTLE — Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Charitable foundations average 26 percent endowment drop in 2008, but continue to giveJune 25th, 2009 Charitable foundations see endowments dropSEATTLE — U.S. foundations saw their investments drop by an average of 26 percent in 2008 amid the economic downturn and stock market collapse, but that hasn't slowed their charitable giving, a new survey has found.
World's richest foundation suffers from recession, but remains the biggestJune 9th, 2009 Economic downturn hits world's richest foundationSEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may be the world's richest charitable foundation, but that hardly shields them from the economic downturn. Between January 2008 and April 2009, the foundation saw its assets drop from $39 billion to $27.5 billion.
Ford Foundation gives $1 million to Detroit Symphony to aid fundraising effortsJune 4th, 2009 Detroit Symphony gets $1M to boost fundraisingDETROIT — The Ford Foundation is boosting the struggling Detroit Symphony Orchestra with a three-year, $1 million grant to help expand its donor base. The money from the New York-based foundation will support the symphony's fundraising and marketing initiatives based around music director Leonard Slatkin.
Gates Foundation helps Colbert's cause _ not bears, helping teachers pay for student projectsApril 23rd, 2009 Colbert: Does Bill Gates ever talk about me?SEATTLE — Stephen Colbert had an important question for an official with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: "Does Bill Gates ever talk about me?"
The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" helped announce a $4.1 million donation from the foundation to donorschoose.org at a New York City high school Tuesday. Colbert is a board member of donorschoose, a Web site where teachers seek money for student projects and donors choose which projects they want to support.
Gates Foundation pledges $57M to improve library Internet access in Vietnam, Poland, RomaniaApril 23rd, 2009 Gates Found. pledges $57M to overseas librariesSEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend $57 million to improve Internet access at public libraries in Poland, Romania and Vietnam.
$635 million effort to wipe out polio in India, PakistanJanuary 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - An international effort spearheaded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $635 million towards eradicating the crippling polio disease with focus on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. The Gates Foundation has pledged $255 million, while the governments of Germany and Britain will together donate a total of $280 million, according to an announcement made in San Diego, California.
Hillary Clinton runs into rough weather over husband's fundraisingJanuary 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton has run into rough weather over potential conflicts of interest former President Bill Clinton's fundraising could pose if she is confirmed as secretary of state, but has refused to commit to greater disclosure. Clinton asserted before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday that government ethics officials have concluded under 'well-established' rules that 'there is not an inherent conflict of interest' for her in any of former president Bill Clinton's fundraising or other business dealings.
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