NEW YORK (July 17, 2025) – Today, a coalition of foundations and philanthropists—Ballmer Group, Gates Foundation, Stand Together, Valhalla Foundation and John Overdeck—announced NextLadder Ventures, a ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

It is one of the cruel ironies of climate change’s impact that the families and communities least responsible for this global crisis are the ones feeling its most extreme repercussions. Africa ...

SEATTLE, COPENHAGEN, LONDON (January 22, 2026) – The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome today awarded a total of $60 million in new grant funding over the next three years to ...

This article originally appeared on Economist.com. In recent years a quiet but disturbing trend emerged: as countries struggled to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and other shocks, official ...

As a child growing up in Nairobi’s Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, Dr. Stellah Bosire often woke up with a mission to search for odd jobs to help feed herself and her four siblings. On those ...

Disease, conflict, and suffering thrive on poverty. Our global development programs create opportunities for people, communities, and countries to build wealth and invest in their futures. We work to ...

The newborn wriggled as she was lowered onto her mother’s chest, minuscule fists clenched, eyes fluttering, chest softly rising and falling. As a nurse wrapped a binding around the pair to steady the ...

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Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is foundational, re-usable digital building blocks—such as digital payments, ID, and data sharing—designed for the public benefit. DPI spans the entire economy, ...

New modeling shows 40 million more children will suffer from hunger’s worst effects by 2050 due to climate change, but immediate action could instead boost health, spur economic growth The Goalkeepers ...

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