Artificial intelligence is advancing quickly, but for billions of people, access remains out of reach. Many of the most powerful tools remain concentrated among those with the most resources, while ...

At CES 2025, one of the world’s largest technology trade shows, groundbreaking healthcare innovations took center stage, showcasing their potential to transform global health and save children’s lives ...

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 ...

Access to formal credit is a vital economic resource that many of us in the Global North take for granted. We borrow money not only to afford expensive items, but also to invest in businesses, ...

Foundation is planning operating expenditures at approximately 14% annually to ensure more funds are directed to the programs and people we serve SEATTLE (January 14, 2026) – The Gates Foundation ...

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 ...

Before she became a trusted voice in her community’s fight against tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, Nandipha Titana was a shy young woman—quiet, but drawn to helping others. While ...

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 ...

In January 2020, as details began emerging about the potential global threat of a novel coronavirus, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pivoted its work and resources to help address what would ...

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, ...

More than one billion children in lower-income countries have been protected with life-saving vaccines since 2000, thanks in part to a global partnership called Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In 2000, ...

Women in Africa are more likely to be working than women in other regions, and almost 50% of women in the non-agricultural labor force are entrepreneurs. It is the only region in which women are more ...