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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world, [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
May 28, 2024 at 12:27 PM. Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will change its name to the Gates Foundation. It is one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world. As of December 2023, its endowment was $75.2 billion, thanks to donations from Gates and the billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
Worth $11 billion today, French Gates made her riches mostly due to her stock in Bill Gates’ company, Microsoft. But she’s made a name for herself when it comes to philanthropy.
It's the second billion-dollar commitment French Gates has personally made in the past five years. In 2019, she pledged over ten years to expand women's power and influence. Earlier this month, French Gates announced she would step down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and vowed to focus on women and families. As a part of leaving the ...
t. e. The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of June 2022, the pledge has had 236 signatories from 28 countries. [1] Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires, and as ...
French Gates announced the pledge as her first venture after leaving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Melinda French Gates to donate $1 billion over the next 2 years. Here's who will get the funds
Melinda French Gates [2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas , Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987.