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In the course of the article, Gates mentioned that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which spends around $450 million a year on education programs, had begun working with school districts to help design evaluation systems that would ...
May 22, 2012 at 11:06 | Source: New York Times
More famous for fighting sickness and poverty abroad, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is spreading a little more of its wealth across the Pacific Northwest with grants to nine community organizations. The amounts are modest compared to the ...
May 24, 2012 at 07:01 | Source: Seattle Times
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $5 million to nine community organizations benefiting people in rural and poverty-stricken areas across the Pacific Northwest. Among the grant recipients, which act as philanthropic ...
May 25, 2012 at 17:51 | Source: indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington will try to find out. Armed with a new four-year, $700,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the homegrown philanthropic clearinghouse will consult nonprofit leaders, other local ...
May 24, 2012 at 18:06 | Source: Columbian
The Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine has received a $3m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for malaria research. They will use it to attack malaria mosquitoes from a new angle. Malaria is caused by a series of parasites of the ...
May 25, 2012 at 08:04 | Source: News-Medical.Net
In this post in PSI's "Healthy Lives" blog, "PSI's Nutrition Research Adviser Dr. Abel Irena talks with Saul Morris, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about progress that has been made in child health." Morris ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:25 | Source: News-Medical.Net
With a major push from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has donated $1 billion to polio eradication since 2009, stunning progress has been made. There were just 650 cases of polio in 2011, down from 1,352 in 2010. India, until now one ...
May 27, 2012 at 02:47 | Source: Forbes
Other award nominees include Songhai farms Limited, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The list also includes the ...
May 28, 2012 at 11:28 | Source: AllAfrica.com
Last week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its latest round of grant winners for its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Among the recipients is a team from the University of California, San Diego and University of ...
May 18, 2012 at 21:55 | Source: Medagadget.com
A reader of Joe Nocera’s column about teacher effectiveness might think that the small-schools initiative financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was a failure. In the case of New York City, a rigorous, continuing evaluation by MDRC ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:27 | Source: New York Times