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...past several years, however, Gates has had a far greater and nobler impact on the world through his philanthropy. With an endowment of $33 million, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation gave away $1.55 billion in 2005 alone. From working to cure diseases in the third world to funding improvements in American public schools, the Gates Foundation has established itself as the central presence in worldwide philanthropy...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Graduation Double Bill | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft, which he began before leaving Harvard in 1975, Gates parlayed a knack for computer science into the world’s largest fortune. He has committed the bulk of that wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his leading philanthropic organization...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Will Address Grads | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft, which he began before leaving Harvard in 1975, Gates parlayed a knack for computer science into the world’s largest fortune. He has committed the bulk of that wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his leading philanthropic organization...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bill Gates To Speak at Commencement | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

Murray is currently seeking funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Seattle institute, according to a Feb. 7 proposal by the deans of the UW School of Medicine and the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U. Wash Program Courts Murray | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...deny that the trend in medicine is increasingly to be guided, if not governed, by the data--an idea that is spreading to other fields as well. Evidence-based practice is now being taught in nursing, general education and even philanthropy, thanks to the influence of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a results-based group if ever there was one. You could see even the political fights over global warming as the birth pangs of the new practice of evidence-based policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Doctors Just Playing Hunches? | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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