The Big Easy is brimming with talent, and untapped potential. YouthForce NOLA is helping students turn real-life work experience into real-world success.

The foundation’s Family Planning team works to ensure that women and girls can access the contraceptives and family planning services they want and thus exercise their right to decide whether to have ...

To strengthen Anglophone Africa journalists with evidence-based data reporting tools and enable them to illuminate the plight of the impoverished and vulnerable through insightful development data ...

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, today announced the formation of the Gates Library Foundation—a nonprofit organization dedicated to partnering with U ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

The Gates Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency. We believe that research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated. We have adopted an Open ...

Trevor Mundel leads the foundation’s efforts to develop high-impact interventions against the leading causes of death and disability in developing countries. He manages the foundation’s ...

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

From early childhood, we each saw how our parents helped out in our local communities, and we were taught that anything is possible. Unfortunately, factors outside of anyone’s control make it hard for ...

While important progress has been made in recent years toward greater gender equality, women still face significant obstacles to participating in the economy on equal terms with men. Low-income women ...

As president of the foundation’s Gender Equality Division, Anita Zaidi oversees the foundation’s efforts to achieve gender equality by integrating gender across the foundation’s global work and by ...

When a mother dies during childbirth, the future dies with her. The world doesn’t just lose everything she is and will be. We also—all too often—lose her child. The chance of a baby reaching their ...