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...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $25 million yesterday to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Harvard Center for International Development for an AIDS research and prevention program in Nigeria...
...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this summer awarded a $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that battles multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...
...largest ever private donation to fight tuberculosis, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week awarded a five-year, $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that will use the funds to battle multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...
...contrast to 525 for the venerable Ford Foundation. The Gates Foundation staff members wade through more than 3,000 serious funding requests each month. And that doesn't count the perpetual-motion machines and colonic-cleansing devices with which promoters could save the world if only Bill and Melinda would throw a few million dollars their way. Worthy projects are filtered up by Stonesifer, Dr. Gordon Perkin and Bill's dad for review by Bill and Melinda...
...Gates, that prospect blunts the criticism of those who say his generosity is meant to burnish his image amid the Justice Department's antitrust suit against his company. (Though the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was founded in 1997, a year before the suit was filed, he has accelerated his donating schedule in the 16 months of the trial.) "I have a high enough level of visibility that people will second-guess anything I do," Gates says, shrugging. He has come to see his life as something of a tripod: there are his wife and children, his company and "this...