Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...

Like Veronica, the working mother in the video below, access to quality and affordable childcare is very important to me. It enables me to focus on my job knowing that my child is safe. This is not ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

In the 1990s, Zimbabwe had one dry year every five years. Now it is once every two years, and sometimes the dry years are back-to-back. I have been involved with smallholder farming my entire life.

When I joined the Gates Foundation’s polio team in 2008, 20 years after Rotary International and the World Health Organization (WHO) set the goal of eradication, the disease was still circulating in ...

When you ask women, “What are the barriers to improving your family’s income?” you learn something surprising. All around the world, in low-, middle-, and high-income countries, they cite the same ...

When Yaw Bediako saw scientists and researchers departing Ghana, he made a life-changing pivot to keep brilliant minds in his country. After a grueling year of applications, interviews, and anxiety, ...

Whether we’re paying the rent, receiving a paycheck, splitting the cost of a meal, or simply buying a coffee, people in much of the world take digital banking for granted. Everything is handled with a ...

I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

For nearly two and a half decades, I’ve had the privilege of meeting women from across the world and speaking to them about their dreams and challenges. Through that experience, I’ve learned that if ...

Nearly half the world's population lacks access to safe sanitation. Read how we're developing solutions to meet community needs and build climate resilience. About 3.5 billion people—half of the world ...

Many people first heard of monoclonal antibody drugs as a treatment early in the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, these proteins, which are made in a lab and can provide passive immunity, were the best ...