Melinda Gates
Background
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. 26 April, 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 23 May, 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 14 September, 2002).
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Grant to support Global Action for Children's work with African partners to ensure African governments meet commitments of 15 percent of national budget for health
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Global Action for Children (GAC) today
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Grant to support Global Action for Children's work with African partners to ensure African governments meet commitments of 15 percent of national budget for health
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Global Action for Children (GAC) today
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Article Date: 07 Jan 2009 - 1:00 PST
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Medical News Today
One of the world's biggest philanthropic foundations has given researchers here a multimillion-dollar infusion of cash to help genetically modified, nutritionally fortified crops take root in Africa.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
...the Nurse-Family Partnership's case, officials found out that one of their major underwriters, the Picower Foundation of Palm Beach, Fla., was gutted. Picower, which chose Madoff to handle $1 billion in assets, is shutting down. "The foundation contacted...
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Denver Post
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- International agriculture researchers and donors announced a plan Tuesday to substantially boost crop yields in South Asia and help farmers increase their income to avoid a repeat of last year's food crisis.
The 10-year
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ReadingEagle.com
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania. The two-year grant will support a strategic collaboration between UCSF
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EurekAlert
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...-- which is based on this very idea of doing good through capitalism is built off of the vast profits earned by Gates and Warren Buffet. Google's charitable wing, Google.org, is also designed as a for-profit enterprise, recognizing that if it can make everyone...
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Techdirt
...a number of partner agencies including the US Agency for International Development, Centers for Disease Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alliance for Rabies Control, and others. They discussed the details of a Latin American and Caribbean...
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Medical News Today
...universities have travelled to Nairobi to study its business model, while Mwangi has advised the UN and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on banking in the low-income sector. Last year he even shared a international microfinance award from the Berlin-based...
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The Observer
...isn't about making software intelligent or not, it's about how much initiative you take out of the users' hands. If you read Tim Berners-Lee's article on the Semantic Web from Scientific American a few years back, you can see that a lot of the benefit envisioned...
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Slashdot
...corporate raider Carl Icahn grabbed a load of Yahoo shares and pushed for a deal. Yahoo's top brass, led by now-outgoing CEO Jerry Yang, sought options, finding one with . . . Google? Yahoo-Google proposed a search ad pact, but federal regulators took an antitrust...
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Investor's Business Daily
...20,000 people each year. Also known as "breakbone fever," symptoms include high temperatures and muscle aches. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated 10 million dollars to an international research team led by the University of Queensland into a means...
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Independent Online
...UQ's School of Biological Sciences, has been studying wolbachia for 20 years and received $10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to research its benefits in preventing dengue fever. The virus infects about 100 million people around the world...
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NEWS.com.au
...sometimes seems like a second language for Boston Mayor Tom Menino, he of the heavy tongue. Yet Ted Kennedy and Menino (and Joe Kennedy when he was in office) have done a lot. Enough to be elected and re-elected. “Judge me by how I perform, not as I talk,”...
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Boston Herald
...school system Dec. 1 after announcing Sept. 30 that he was leaving for a job as an education director for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Deasy's 2 1/2 -year tenure was generally viewed as positive for the school system. Students made large gains on...
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The Washington Post
The home-grown lender in Kenya that welcomes customers shunned by multinationals.
In just a few years Equity has gone from being a quirky, fringe player to the third most profitable bank in Kenya
Since many of individual customers work in the informal
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The Hindu
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...by the female anopheles mosquito and is the leading killer of children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Tanzanian trial, the vaccine reduced infection with malaria over six months by up to 65 per cent in babies under one, who are most vulnerable...
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The Independent
...Disney Company Foundation, The Coca-Cola Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Motor Fund, Toyota, AARP, AFLAC, BP America, Inc., CIGNA, Credit Unions of the United States, DuPont, ExxonMobil Foundation, Fannie Mae Corporation, FedEx...
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PR-Inside.com
...which spends billions on global health, is taking a direct route to ensuring coverage. Last week, “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” received a Gates Foundation grant of $3.5 million to help its correspondents produce 40 to 50 reports over three years on malaria,...
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The New York Times
...new grants dedicated to wiping out the final hotspots: The British government has pledged $15 million, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will contribute $40 million. Guinea Worm is one of the worst parasites you can get. The worms burrow inside of...
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...infection that has ravaged African and Asian populations since antiquity, may be on the verge of being eradicated, says Jimmy Carter. The former president has helped lead the global effort to fight Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, through his work with...
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Scientific American
...trials were funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, and drug maker GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Marc Siegel, an expert in infectious diseases and an associate professor of medicine at New York University...
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U.S. News & World Report
...with international development,” Erickson said. However, Neubauer still lives in Incline Village and READ maintains strong contacts with the Tahoe Community, Erickson said. Incline-founded literacy organization signs agreement expand work to Bhutan...
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North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
...17 months old, RTS, S/AS protected 53 percent of them over an eight month period. Ripley Ballou is with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which promotes global health, development and education. "The foundation is very excited about this project because...
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Voice of America
...Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at N.C. A&T University has received a grant of $254,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote diversity in the industry, according to an announcement. With support from the grant, the institute’s “One...
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Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
In a separate paper, which also appears in the online journal, the findings are presented of the first co-administration of the RTS, S/AS02 malaria vaccine through the WHO Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in infants living in an area of perennial
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