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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) 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]
In French Gates’ 2008 Fortune profile, Buffett said French Gates helped focus the foundation’s mission. “He’s smart as hell, obviously,” Buffett said of Bill Gates.
Melinda French Gates [2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist, former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. [3] French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes magazine. [4]
Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like ...
Melinda French Gates is stepping down as co-chair of the $63 billion foundation she set up two decades ago with her ex-husband, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, according to a statement she posted ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world's largest philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years.
Taylor Hill. Melinda French Gates is stepping down from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, three years after announcing her separation from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In a statement ...
Ms French Gates said her last day at the charity will be 7 June. She will leave with $12.5bn (£9.9bn) from the foundation to do her own charitable work for women and families as part of an ...