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Melinda French Gates Gives $1 Billion in Support of Women's Rights

Melinda French Gates will give $1 billion to philanthropic individuals and organizations advancing women’s rights globally, over the next two years.

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Less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls. Can Melinda French Gates change that?

For years, less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the U.S. has gone to benefit women and girls, but that could change in part thanks to new resources that Melinda French Gates has pledged in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Melinda Gates Allegedly Forced To 'Limit' Her Donations To Women And Reproductive Rights 'To Stay Relevant'

Melinda Gates has stepped away from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, fighting gender inequalities with her brand new non-profit organisation instead.

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Openai CEO Sam Altman Joins Giving Pledge Billionaires

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Melinda French Gates commit to philanthropy through Giving Pledge and personal donations.

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Melinda French Gates says she’s donating $1bn in support of women, families

Philanthropist says it is ‘frustrating’ that some believe it is not the right time to discus gender equality.

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Melinda French Gates is going her own way: Donating $1 billion to women’s rights after leaving the foundation she created with her ex-husband

Her lodestar: “Set your own agenda, or someone else will set it for you.”

Fortune

Who is getting part of Melinda French Gates' $1 billion initiative to support women and girls

Melinda French Gates plans to donate $1 billion over the next two years to organizations supporting women and girls around the world

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Billionaire Bill Gates' Trust Sells Microsoft, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in Q1, Walmart Stake Increases by 200%

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently revealed selling millions of shares of Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway in Q1, coinciding with Melinda Gates' resignation as co-chair of the trust.

International Business Times UK

Melinda Gates is giving away $1 billion in the next years. Here’s where it’s going

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will change its name to the Gates Foundation

The Independent UK

Melinda French Gates resigns as co-chair from the Gates Foundation

French Gates says she is "immensely proud" of the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the decision to step down as co-chair was not easy. Her last day is June 7.

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Melinda Gates To Leave Gates Foundation, Keeps $12.5bn For Her Work

Philanthropist Melinda French Gates announced Monday she was leaving the nonprofit foundation she established with her ex-husband Bill Gates -- an organization that has become one of the most influential in the world.

International Business Times

Melinda Gates steps down from Gates foundation

The ex-wife of Bill Gates will still have $12.5 billion to commit.

Axios

Melinda French Gates to step down as co-chair of Gates Foundation

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates had pledged to continue work together through trial period after filing for divorce in 2021

The Guardian - US

OPINION - How Jeffrey Epstein is still shifting tectonic plates of world’s elite from the grave

From New York to the Royal Lodge, yet another toxic dossier about the billionaire is wreaking havoc on power players

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Melinda Gates Net Worth: More Firepower To Help 'Every Woman And Girl'

On Forbes' real-time billionaires' list, Melinda Gates is 185th as of Dec. 27. Melinda had enough firepower in her to navigate through the fresh philanthropic and financial landscape after her separation from her billionaire husband.

Fortune

Bill Gates made waves with his statements on climate change. Here’s why he’s right–and what most people missed

Bill Gates is right–we need to focus on the tools we have available. However, we need to simultaneously fund ecosystem conservation and restoration.

Fortune

Melinda French Gates redefines what a 'smart bet' in VC looks like

To advance more female founders and fund managers, Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures is turning to new markers of success and potential.

Fortune

Melinda French Gates: 'It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital'

By investing in women-led funds and early-stage companies, Pivotal wants to help transform the way that the venture capital industry looks at women.

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The Independent UK

Multi-million dollar lawsuits and irreconcilable differences: The most expensive celebrity divorces

Celebrity divorces are frequently the subject of mass media scrutiny, as former couples attempt to fairly divy up their millions, or even billions, worth of assets. Honey Wyatt takes a look at some of the most high-profile cases in recent years

The Independent UK

Gates Foundation commits $200 million to pay for medical supplies, contraception

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million to help save the lives of mothers and children during child birth

The Independent UK

Helping mothers and babies survive childbirth is a personal goal, says Melinda French Gates

Several low cost and low tech interventions would increase the chances of mothers and their babies surviving childbirth, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Independent UK

Inaction on maternal and newborn deaths is ‘morally wrong’, Gates Foundation CEO warns

‘Data demonstrates clearly there are significant inequities in resources and attention being paid to issues that primarily affect women,’ Mark Suzman says

Fortune

The world’s mothers are in crisis. Melinda French Gates says these innovations can help reverse maternal mortality

Every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth.

The Independent UK

Bill Gates says being a grandparent motivates him to create ‘a better world’ for granddaughter

The Microsoft founder says that he’s been given ‘a whole new lens to see the world through’

The Independent UK

Bill Gates and girlfriend Paula Hurd attend Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s engagement party

The celebrations reportedly took place onboard the Amazon founder’s yacht in the Amalfi Coast, Italy

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