And, taking a different path than Microsoft had traditionally trod, the Gates Foundation took the hint.
On Tuesday morning, Blakely sent a letter explaining her decision to the Gates Foundation.
Though, a few days beforehand, the private Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also chipped in.
Peterson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and our own Skoll Global Threats Fund.
"We felt we could help by operating quickly and quietly, " says a Gates Foundation mouthpiece.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is an amazing organization, one worthy of our admiration.
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David Brandling-Bennett is a senior program manager with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation was a big investor in Eni and thus simultaneously lengthening and shortening lives.
The Gates Foundation has gone through a fair amount of turnover at high levels.
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The Giving Pledge, conceived by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is overseen by the Gates Foundation.
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Mr. DAVID BRANDLING-BENNETT (Senior Program Manager, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation): This is not really new technology.
They were aid workers from the Gates Foundation, a charity originally set up to focus on health.
The disease that could give the Gates Foundation a great opportunity for a big press release is malaria.
The Gates Foundation is notable for its willingness to sponsor research into better means of prevention and treatment.
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For all the money floating around, even the powerful Gates Foundation has met with more failures than successes.
For example, the Gates Foundation offers a number of scholarships for graduate students, particularly minority and low-income students.
The Kamprad foundations compare poorly with the Gates Foundation in other ways, too.
In this model, GAVI works with pharmaceutical suppliers, donor governments, the World Bank, the Gates Foundation, UNICEF and WHO.
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To tackle this task we headed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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In 2009 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was criticized for what it was doing with its money.
But Zambia's ambitious malaria plan is being backed by millions of dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Right now, his team is using the Gates Foundation grant to study the parameters of the effect they discovered.
We'll note that the Gates Foundation also contributes to NPR's global health coverage.
The fair in Seattle will also bring together researchers, designers and investors from 29 countries, the Gates foundation says.
It has a growing market, and has pursed ample grants from resources like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
PSI, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has identified ten health solutions we believe have catalytic potential.
The Seattle-based Gates Foundation said Bloomberg was set to announce the donation to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on Thursday.
Today, we can also announce the Gates Foundation is starting a new five-year initiative to raise community college graduation rates.
The Gates Foundation sits solidly between the philanthropic traditions of the past and the activist philanthropic agendas of the high-tech community.
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