Behind the Gates
The Foundation was officially founded in this year.
What is 2000?
Global Health, Global Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, US Program and Global Policy & Advocacy.
What are the five program areas?
A much discussed benefit for new mothers and fathers.
What is 52 weeks of parental leave?
Guiding principle
What is “every life has equal value”?
500 Fifth Avenue North, Seattle
Where is the Foundation Headquarters?
Preferred method for individuals to contribute to the work of the Foundation
What is donate time and money to grantees directly?
Proving it is possible, the US eradicated this disease in 1951.
What is Malaria?
The CFO for the Foundation, recently joined from Princeton.
Who is Carolyn Ainslie?
Melinda Gates: “WHATEVER THE CONDITIONS OF PEOPLE’S LIVES, WHEREVER THEY LIVE, HOWEVER THEY LIVE, WE ALL SHARE THE SAME _____”
What is "dreams"?
This African country has seen a 45% reduction in poverty since 2000, when the Foundation made their first grants there.
What is Ethiopia?
The academic degree Bill Gates obtained from Harvard
What is an honorary doctorate?
This program helps the world’s poorest to build more prosperous and secure lives for themselves, their families, and their communities.
What is Financial Services for the Poor?
The Third, Un-Named Trustee.
Who is Warren Buffet?
Bill Gates: “TO TURN CARING INTO ACTION, WE NEED TO SEE A PROBLEM, FIND A SOLUTION, AND DELIVER ____”
What is Impact?
One of three countries where Polio can still be found
What is Afghanistan, or Pakistan or Nigeria?
Individual grants to people, health problems in developed countries, and political campaigns?
What are things the Foundation does not fund?
37 million people around the world are living with this disease with 25 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is HIV?
Trained as an oncologist, this C-Suite Gates employee was listed among Fortune magazines "top 50 most powerful women in business"
Who is Sue Desmond-Hellmann- CEO?
Impatient ______, also the name of the Foundation Blog.
What is [Impatient] Optimists?
Before the official BMGF was founded in 1997, Bill and Melinda Gates funded free internet access in public libraries in this country.
What is the US?
Launched in 2003, this effort seeks innovative solutions to 14 scientific problems impacting the developing world.
What are the Global Grand Challenges?
A chief contributor to waterborne diseases, it is the cause of more than 1,200 deaths of children under five-years-old per day, more than AIDS, measles, and tuberculosis combined
What is poor sanitation?
This President of Global Development, spent 12 years at PATH and has a very active Twitter account
Who is Chris Elias?
From the 2016 Annual Letter, Bill and Melinda's desired superpower.
What is "More Time" or "More Energy"?
Making recent headlines, Bill Gates brought a jar of human fecal matter to the "Reinvented Toilet Expo" in this city.
What is Beijing, China?