The fundraising milestone was reached in response to USD 355 million in challenge grants awarded to Rotary Foundation by the Gates Foundation to support polio immunization activities in affected countries, where the vaccine-preventable disease continues

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s visitor center had its grand opening Saturday and many attended the event. The foundation is the headquarters for the largest philanthropic organization in the world. Exhibits at the new addition are designed to le

SPENGLER Now we know that computers don't help children learn and that drugs don't help them concentrate, because the establishment mandarins who sold us the computers and drugs have conceded failure. In the January 29 New York Times, [1] a prominent pro

SEATTLE (AP) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is opening a new visitor center in Seattle on Saturday. Most people don't know what to expect from the glass-clad public space in front of the new headquarters of the world's largest charitable foundatio

To the Editor: Re “ Bill Gates Donates $750 Million to Shore Up Disease-Fighting Fund ” (news article, Jan. 27): The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just threw the global economy a lifeline. By injecting needed financial and political capital into the

Global malaria deaths may be higher than expected “Malaria deaths twice as high as was thought,” The Independent has reported today. Many newspapers have covered research that found that malaria claimed 1.2 million lives worldwide in 2010. The Guardian a

The Facebook IPO will give birth to a new generation of young millionaires in Silicon Valley and a handful of billionaires, several of whom have yet to hit their 30th birthdays. While there will surely be a race to the real estate market, and a rash of y

(NaturalNews) Aaron Dykes of Prison Planet recently gave an insightful TV news presentation analyzing The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's influence over the media to promote their "world health and agriculture" agendas while soft pedaling the downsid

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Peter Diamandis X PRIZE Founder/Chairman on his next big venture (asteroid mining). Forbes - Peter Diamandis’ $10 million X Prize bounty sparked a boom in commercial space tourism. Other Xprizes - * Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin raised $30 million

"‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven.'" ~ Matthew 5:21 (NRSV) Because it's never too late to say thank you, I didn't want to let the best news I heard out of

If you’ve ever been past the huge new Gates Foundation campus near Seattle Center and wondered what goes on inside – your time has come. The foundation is opening up its doors, at least a little bit. This weekend, a … Read More If you’ve ever been past t

“We know the exact number of kids in algebra who are passing -- and what we are doing about those who are not -- in Van Nuys Middle School in Mrs. Jones’s classroom,” said Deasy, who’s responsible for 664,000 children in the nation’s largest school syste

SEATTLE, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise), in coordination with TAF (a.k.a. Technology Access Foundation) and other partners recently closed on a combined $12.5 million transaction that is financing the constr

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a number of events today in anticipation of the opening of the philanthropy’s new public visitor center. Social media, and media in general, will play a big role in it. If they use Twitter or Facebook to tel

The Gates' have personally paid for the the new Seattle visitor centre In some circles it's not considered polite to talk about donating to charity, let alone opening up a whole museum dedicated to showcasing your good work. But then again Microsoft foun

Part of the new visitor center If you’ve ever been past the huge new Gates Foundation campus near Seattle Center – and wondered what goes on inside – your time has come. The foundation is opening up its doors, at least a little bit. The location is no co

Davos 2012 Diary: Food for thought: Blog on Letters from London by Sudeshna Sen | ET Blogs One of the highlights of Davos 2012 was my exclusive interview with Bill Gates. These days he works full time at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation & spends more

Harold Simmons, long one of the GOP's most prolific donors, cemented his place on the speed-dial of fundraisers for conservative causes on Tuesday as several super PACs reported huge hauls from the Texas billionaire in their 2011 year-end campaign financ