The Big Easy is brimming with talent, and untapped potential. YouthForce NOLA is helping students turn real-life work experience into real-world success.

The foundation’s Family Planning team works to ensure that women and girls can access the contraceptives and family planning services they want and thus exercise their right to decide whether to have ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

From early childhood, we each saw how our parents helped out in our local communities, and we were taught that anything is possible. Unfortunately, factors outside of anyone’s control make it hard for ...

The Gates Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency. We believe that research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated. We have adopted an Open ...

To expand access to digital financial services so people in the lowest-income communities around the globe can build security and prosperity for themselves, their families, and their communities.

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

To advance data-driven, sub-nationally tailored malaria interventions in high burden Africa & the GMS, along with targeted support to and time-limited transition from previously prioritized ...

to support the strategic planning and oversight of Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise which expands access to affordable state-of-the-art medical technology such as diagnostic tests and ...

As co-chair of the Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees ...

Trevor Mundel leads the foundation’s efforts to develop high-impact interventions against the leading causes of death and disability in developing countries. He manages the foundation’s ...

As president of the foundation’s Gender Equality Division, Anita Zaidi oversees the foundation’s efforts to achieve gender equality by integrating gender across the foundation’s global work and by ...