And, taking a different path than Microsoft had traditionally trod, the Gates Foundation took the hint.
On Tuesday morning, Blakely sent a letter explaining her decision to the Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation was a big investor in Eni and thus simultaneously lengthening and shortening lives.
The Gates Foundation has gone through a fair amount of turnover at high levels.
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The Giving Pledge, conceived by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is overseen by the Gates Foundation.
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They were aid workers from the Gates Foundation, a charity originally set up to focus on health.
The disease that could give the Gates Foundation a great opportunity for a big press release is malaria.
The Gates Foundation is notable for its willingness to sponsor research into better means of prevention and treatment.
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For example, the Gates Foundation offers a number of scholarships for graduate students, particularly minority and low-income students.
The Kamprad foundations compare poorly with the Gates Foundation in other ways, too.
In this model, GAVI works with pharmaceutical suppliers, donor governments, the World Bank, the Gates Foundation, UNICEF and WHO.
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Right now, his team is using the Gates Foundation grant to study the parameters of the effect they discovered.
We'll note that the Gates Foundation also contributes to NPR's global health coverage.
The fair in Seattle will also bring together researchers, designers and investors from 29 countries, the Gates foundation says.
Today, we can also announce the Gates Foundation is starting a new five-year initiative to raise community college graduation rates.
The Gates Foundation sits solidly between the philanthropic traditions of the past and the activist philanthropic agendas of the high-tech community.
Microsoft and the Gates Foundation have been partners with TechBoston since it got started, and we are very grateful for their support.
Stonesifer knows that even with its billions, the Gates Foundation needs allies.
The investments that the Gates Foundation and others are directing towards infectious and parasitic diseases like malaria are wonderful and long overdue.
Fewer than 225 people had polio in 2012, the Gates Foundation said.
The Gates Foundation, keen to avoid a public row, also downplays them.
Perhaps the board should put in a call to the Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation is the biggest malaria funder on the world block, but it's trying to cooperate with the other players as well.
The difference, suggests Patricia (Patty) Stonesifer, a former Microsoft vice president who now cochairs the Gates Foundation, is one of passion and direction.
The Gates Foundation has asserted that its entire approach is systemic, that it can leverage its billions to attack the roots of poverty.
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Later, she helped the Gates Foundation grow into a global force for good, and then she helped the Walmart Foundation expand its charitable work.
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Funding from the Gates Foundation allowed PDPs to get up and running, and today the industry is in the midst of some growing pains.
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The diversity of heirloom seeds offers rural communities far more pragmatic options than the Gates Foundation and Monsanto can generate with all their wealth.
Omidyar consulted with the Gates Foundation and decided that venture was sufficiently committed to disease eradication and related global issues that he should steer clear.
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