Latest Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation News

As Melinda French Gates leaves the Gates Foundation, many hope she’ll double down on gender equity

May. 15, 2024 09:42 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 closing the gender pay gap and increasing women's political participation, her grantees...

Melinda French Gates resigns as Gates Foundation co-chair, 3 years after her divorce from Bill Gates

May. 13, 2024 19:53 PM EDT

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. “This is not a...

Women's tennis tour and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will work to support prenatal care

Mar. 08, 2024 00:21 AM EST

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The charitable wing of the women's professional tennis tour and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have started a joint effort to provide prenatal vitamins to 1 million women in low- and middle-income countries. The Women Change the Game campaign —...

How AI health care chatbots learn from the questions of an Indian women's organization

Feb. 22, 2024 00:11 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Komal Vilas Thatkare says she doesn't have anyone to ask about her most private health questions. “There are only men in my home — no ladies," said the 32-year-old mother and housewife in Mumbai. "I don’t speak to anyone here. So I used this app as it helps me...