Timeline of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

This is a timeline of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This timeline covers the period 2011–present. For a treatment of the first decade and a half, see § External links below.

How the timeline was built
The initial timeline was built by Issa Rice. Sources for events included:


 * Finding all grants worth at least $50 million
 * Gates Foundation history page, which lists a small number of events
 * Bill Gates's op-eds
 * Looking through Gates Foundation press releases to see if anything seemed important (over 200 press releases for the period of interest)
 * Using Google and Google News search with filtered time period to find events that received a lot of news coverage

What the timeline is still missing

 * A big picture section, once there is a clearer idea of what the foundation has been up to
 * More digging through Gates Foundation press releases page (only got to September 2012 working toward the present)
 * More digging through news coverage
 * More comprehensive coverage based on cause areas