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| Jun 27, 2008 | United Way of King County Awarded Grant For Work to End Chronic Homelessness
SEATTLE--United Way of King County today announced the receipt of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support its Campaign to End Chronic Homelessness in King County. |
| | Jun 27, 2008 | ICGEB Recieves Grant to Strengthen and Expand Biosafety Systems in Subsaharan Africa
TRIESTE, Italy -- The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) today announced a US $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help support the development of effective safety and regulatory systems for biotechnology in Africa. |
| | Jun 25, 2008 | EnterpriseWorks Receives Grant to Develop Low-Cost Domestic Rainwater Harvesting System
Washington, D.C. -- EnterpriseWorks today announced a five-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
| | Jun 24, 2008 | America's Newest High School Graduates Earn Diplomas, Celebrate Individual Achievements
SEATTLE -- As high school graduates are honored in communities across America for their accomplishments this spring, rising graduation rates are just one indicator of the success of thousands of high schools nationwide where students, regardless of income or ethnicity, are preparing for their next step in life. |
| | Jun 16, 2008 | Mercy Corps Launches Innovative Microfinance Program to Help Millions of People in Indonesia
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The global relief and development agency Mercy Corps today announced an innovative approach to poverty reduction in Indonesia and the Philippines that will support the growth of the microfinance sector. |
| | Jun 11, 2008 | Internet and Email Scams
Several scam emails claiming to be from or associated with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are circulating on the internet in many languages. |
| | May 21, 2008 | Pioneering Eye Surgery Network Receives 2008 Gates Award for Global Health
SEATTLE -- In recognition of its groundbreaking work to prevent debilitating blindness and provide affordable, world-class eye care to the poor, the Aravind Eye Care System, based in Tamil Nadu, India, has won the 2008 Gates Award for Global Health. |
| | May 12, 2008 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Names Jeff Raikes to Serve as New CEO
SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has selected Jeff Raikes as the next CEO of the foundation. Raikes, formerly president of the Microsoft Business Division, will assume the role presently held by Patty Stonesifer on September 2, 2008. |
| | May 9, 2008 | East Yakima Set to Help Youngest Residents Thrive
YAKIMA, Wash -- Thrive by Five Washington and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today $5 million for the first round of funding for Ready by Five, a community partnership that will substantially increase access to high-quality early learning opportunities for children from birth to age 5 in the partnership's project area of East Yakima. |
| | May 9, 2008 | CARE, Save the Children, and World Vision Receive Grants for Emergency Response in Myanmar
SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $1 million grants to three organizations―CARE, Save the Children, and World Vision―working to address the most pressing needs resulting from Cyclone Nargis. |
| | Apr 30, 2008 | New Report Profiles Three High Schools That Crack the Code for Effective Math Instruction
SEATTLE -- A new report released today shows how three public high schools in communities across the country are preparing students to be college and career ready with access to high-level math classes and support to help them succeed. |
| | Apr 30, 2008 | CRS Announces Grant to Help Small-Scale Farmers Protect Cassava from Disease
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A $21.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is enabling Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its partners to help small farmers in central and east Africa protect cassava―a critical source of food and income―from two spreading pandemics that are decimating as much as 70 percent of crop yields. |
| | Apr 30, 2008 | University Announces Grant to Boost Incomes of Poorest Farmers in Africa
LONDON -- An initiative led by the University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute in close partnership with organizations in five African countries―Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi―aims to significantly boost the incomes of small-scale African farmers by linking them to new markets. |
| | Apr 21, 2008 | Foundations Pledge $19 Million to Strengthen Newark Public Charter Schools
Newark, N.J. -- Seven charitable foundations announce $19 million in new funds to start and support high quality public charter schools in the city of Newark. |
| | Apr 17, 2008 | Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative—Funding Opportunity
OTTAWA, Ontario -- An "Invitation to Submit Applications" for a pilot scale HIV vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada for clinical trial lots is being released today. |
| | Apr 9, 2008 | City Librarian Deborah L. Jacobs Joins Foundation to Lead Global Libraries Initiative
SEATTLE -- The Seattle Public Library board of trustees announced today that City Librarian Deborah L. Jacobs has accepted a position with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will leave her Library post July 2, 2008. |
| | Apr 7, 2008 | USC Annenberg's Hollywood, Health, and Society Receives Grants to Launch New Initiatives
LOS ANGELES -- Two prestigious new grants, including a grant to the University of Southern California from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are expanding the scope and ambition of Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), the pioneering health communication program working with the television and film community, now in its seventh year at the USC Annenberg School for Communication's Norman Lear Center. |
| | Apr 2, 2008 | Cornell University to Lead Broad Global Partnership to Combat Wheat Rust Disease and Protect Resource-Poor Farmers
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University today announced a $26.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a broad-based global partnership to combat a deadly wheat disease that poses an enormous threat to global food security. |
| | Mar 31, 2008 | Now Accepting Proposals for Grand Challenges Explorations
SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it is now accepting grant proposals for the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a US$100 million initiative to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions. |
| | Mar 26, 2008 | Statement on Noguchi Africa Prize Recipients
The Government of Japan announced today that Dr. Brian Greenwood and Dr. Miriam Were are recipients of the inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes. Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & […] |
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