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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers include Co-Chair William H. Gates, Sr. and Chief Executive Officer Patty Stonesifer. As of December 2006, it has an endowment of approximately US$33 billion. More »
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates,... More »
Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates is a former Microsoft product unit manager of Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Encarta, and Microsoft Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, Chairman, and former Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates , Rory John Gates and Phoebe Adele Gates . Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, where she was valedictorian of her class at the highly esteemed Ursuline Academy of Dallas. More »
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. ''Forbes'' magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, and recent estimates put his net worth near... More »
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is an American investor, businessman and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments, particularly through the company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, behind telecom businessman Carlos Slim Helú. In June 2006, he has made a commitment to give away his... More »
William H. Gates, Sr.
William Henry Gates, Sr. is a retired American attorney and philanthropist who is the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. More »
Sylvia Mathews
Sylvia M. Mathews is the President of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her program focusses on combatting world poverty through agricultural development, financial services for the poor, and global libraries. She was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Foundation prior to its reorganization in 2006. She came to the Foundation since 2001, after serving as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., from... More »
Patty Stonesifer
Patty Stonesifer is the Co-chair and President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1997, Bill and Melinda Gates asked Stonesifer to launch the Gates Library Foundation, which later merged with the William H. Gates Foundation in 2000. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's US$24 billion endowment fund hands out more than a billion dollars a year to "improve access to advances in global health and learning." Prior to 1997, Stonesifer was a consultant to DreamWorks SKG and held a... More »
NewSchools Venture Fund
The NewSchools Venture Fund is a non-profit venture philanthopy fund that invests in educational entrepeneurship projects at the K-12 levels in United States public schools. NewSchools offers expertise and administrative support as well funding, both through Charter Accelerator Fund, which helps establish charter school systems, and through its Performance Accelerator Fund, which supports entrepenurial projects in established school systems. The organization invests in both not-for-profit and... More »
James Matthew Jones
James Matthew Jones is an American global public health expert and consultant. Jones is the oft-quoted former communications director for U.S. Senator John Kerry. At the forefront of many of the gay rights debates in the U.S. Congress during the 1990s, Jones became known as a fierce advocate of the rights of people living with AIDS as well as gay and lesbian Americans. In 2000, he was tapped by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to helm the operations of their largest grantee, the... More »
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