When COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation globally, it highlighted the difference between strong and weak digital infrastructure. Countries have a narrow window to ensure they have digital ...

Clare Mukankusi hears this every time she visits farmers in Uganda. For the country’s smallholder farmers—most of them women—unpredictable weather isn’t just a setback; it’s a threat to their ...

As a child growing up in Nairobi’s Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, Dr. Stellah Bosire often woke up with a mission to search for odd jobs to help feed herself and her four siblings. On those ...

When a mother dies during childbirth, the future dies with her. The world doesn’t just lose everything she is and will be. We also—all too often—lose her child. The chance of a baby reaching their ...

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

To expand access to digital financial services so people in the lowest-income communities around the globe can build security and prosperity for themselves, their families, and their communities.

As CEO of the Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman leads the organization in service of our mission – to help every person have the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. Knowing that we cannot ...

From early childhood, we each saw how our parents helped out in our local communities, and we were taught that anything is possible. Unfortunately, factors outside of anyone’s control make it hard for ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

To help the U.S. economic system better meet the needs of those experiencing poverty and significantly increase their opportunities to achieve economic success. Economic mobility is decreasing in the ...

Why did Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates start the foundation? Foundation Chair Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates believe that all lives have equal value and they have always been determined to ...

NEW YORK -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the New York City Department of Education today announced a $51.2 million effort that will support the creation of 67 new small, challenging high ...