Timeline of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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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.

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Year Month and date Event type Details
2011 January Bill Gates and Crown Prince Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi each donate $50 million to vaccinate children in Pakistan and Afghanistan against polio.[1][2]
2011 February 19 The Seattle Times runs a story on the Gates Foundation's involvement in funding journalism and media coverage of health-related topics. The article notes concern from various people on the bias in coverage resulting from such a large source of funding.[3]
2011 April 28 The Gates Foundation announces 88 new grants as part of its Grand Challenges Exploration program.[4]
2011 May 17 Bill Gates gives a speech to the sixty-fourth World Health Assembly.[5]
2011 June 4 The new Gates Foundation Seattle headquarters opens to the public for the first time.[6]
2011 July The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $87 million to Shared Learning Collaborative, LLC.[7] In February 2013, the grantee would rebrand itself to inBloom.[8] However, by April 2014 the project would end in failure.[9]
2011 July 19 The Gates Foundation announces $41.5 million worth of grants to encourage innovation in toilet technology.[10][11]
2011 September The September 2011 issue of Alliance magazine is "Living with the Gates Foundation", with pieces covering the role of the foundation in philanthropy.[12]
2011 November The Gates Foundation awards $51 million to Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.[13]
2011 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $954 million to Gavi.[14]
2011 December The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $750 million to the Global Fund.[15]
2012 The Gates Foundation opens a new office in Addis Ababa.[16]
2012 January The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $210 million to Aeras.[17]
2012 January 26 Bill Gates writes the op-ed "The Truth About Foreign Aid" for The New York Times.[18]
2012 February 4 The Gates Foundation's public visitor center opens.[19]
2012 February 22 Bill Gates writes the op-ed "Shame Is Not the Solution" for The New York Times, about teacher performance assessments.[20]
2012 March The Gates Foundation commits up to $220 million over five years to Aeras, a nonprofit that develops vaccines for tuberculosis.[21] The grant was apparently given in January.[22]
2012 April The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $89 million to the World Health Organization Nigeria Country Office.[23]
2012 July The London Summit on Family Planning takes place.[24] The summit results in Family Planning 2020, a set of commitments regarding contraceptives. The Gates Foundation is one of the core partners of the summit.[25]
2012 August The Gates Foundation hosts a two-day Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, Washington.[26]
2012 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $59 million to PATH Vaccine Solutions.[27]
2012 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $50 million to the World Health Organization.[28]
2013 January The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $52 million to The One Campaign.[29]
2013 January The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $52 million to The Task Force for Global Health, Inc.[30]
2013 February The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $57 million to the Islamic Development Bank.[31]
2013 April The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $204 million to the World Health Organization.[32]
2013 April The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $84 million to the United States Fund for UNICEF.[33]
2013 June The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $63 million to the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund.[34]
2013 July The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $185 million to Medicines for Malaria Venture.[35]
2013 August 22 The Gates Foundation announces the launch of Reinvent the Toilet Challenge: China.[36]
2013 October The Gates Foundation, together with the Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India and India's Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, launch Reinvent the Toilet Challenge: India.[26]
2013 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $60 million to the World Health Organization.[37]
2013 November 12 The viral content website Upworthy announces its partnership with the Gates Foundation.[38][39]
2013 December 17 The Gates Foundation announces that it has selected Susan Desmond-Hellmann as its new CEO. Her start date would be May 1 the following year.[40]
2014 March The Gates Foundation co-hosts (with the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology) the second Reinvent the Toilet Fair, held in New Delhi, India.[26]
2014 June The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $241 million to Gavi.[41]
2014 June The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $123 million to the United States Fund for UNICEF.[42]
2014 June The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $50 million to Calibr.[43]
2014 September The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $275 million to the World Health Organization.[44]
2014 September The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $156 million to PATH.[45]
2014 September The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $81 million to the Government of Japan "to procure OPV for the eradication of polio in Nigeria".[46]
2014 September The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $61 million to PATH Vaccine Solutions.[47]
2014 October The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $60 million to the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.[48]
2014 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $51 million to the World Health Organization Pakistan Country Office.[49]
2015 March 18 Bill Gates writes the op-ed "How to Fight the Next Epidemic" for The New York Times.[50]
2015 June The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $164 million to Agence Française de Développement.[51]
2015 June The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $72 million to Emory University.[52]
2015 September Empowering Effective Teachers, a Gates Foundation-funded education program in Hillsborough County, Florida, reaches the end of its seven-year time frame. Reporting on the end of the program, Nonprofit Quarterly concludes that "there is little evidence that student outcomes are better because of this investment".[53]
2015 September The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $89 million to Novavax, Inc.[54]
2015 October The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $417 million to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.[55]
2015 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $145 million to Global Alliance for TB Drug Development.[56]
2015 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $78 million to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.[57]
2016 January The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $1.55 billion to Gavi.[58]
2016 April The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $100 million to the Islamic Development Bank.[59]
2016 May The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $79 million to the Government of Japan for "to support eradication of Polio in Pakistan".[60]
2016 May The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $75 million to Innovative Vector Control Consortium.[61]
2016 July The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $64 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[62]
2016 October The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $210 million to the University of Washington Foundation.[63]
2016 November The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $284 million to the Global Fund.[64]
2016 December Bill Gates announces Breakthrough Energy Ventures, part of Breakthrough Energy Coalition.[65]
2017 March The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $200 million to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.[66]
2017 April The Indian government blocks Public Health Foundation of India, a public health nonprofit, from receiving money from foreign donors. This block prevents the organization from receiving funding from the Gates Foundation.[67][68]

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  1. ↑ Donald G. McNeil Jr. (January 31, 2011). "Gates Calls for a Final Push to Eradicate Polio". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2017. 
  2. ↑ "His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Foundation Partner to Immunize Children". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. January 25, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Doughton, Sandi; Heim, Kristi (February 23, 2011). "Does Gates funding of media taint objectivity?". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  4. ↑ "Foundation Funds Bold Ideas". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. April 28, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  5. ↑ "Mr Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation". World Health Organization. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  6. ↑ John Cook (June 2, 2011). "Inside look at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new Seattle HQ". GeekWire. Retrieved May 2, 2017. 
  7. ↑ "Shared Learning Collaborative, LLC". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  8. ↑ Rip Empson (February 5, 2013). "With $100M From The Gates Foundation & Others, inBloom Wants To Transform Education By Unleashing Its Data". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  9. ↑ Valerie Strauss. "$100 million Gates-funded student data project ends in failure". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  10. ↑ John D. Sutter. "Gates Foundation: 'We need to reinvent the toilet'". CNN. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  11. ↑ Ben Rooney (July 21, 2011). "Microwave Toilet Could Solve Africa Sanitation Problems". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 4, 2017. 
  12. ↑ "September 2011 - Alliance magazine". Alliance magazine. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  13. ↑ "Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  14. ↑ "OPP1045310". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "OPP1019422". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Ethiopia". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 8, 2017. 
  17. ↑ "OPP1018930". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  18. ↑ Bill Gates (January 26, 2012). "Opinion | The Truth About Foreign Aid". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  19. ↑ "Why the New Gates Foundation Visitor Center Isn't Just for Kids". Seattle Magazine. February 2, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2017. 
  20. ↑ Bill Gates (February 22, 2012). "Opinion | For Teachers, Shame Is No Solution". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  21. ↑ "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to give $220 million to Aeras to fight tuberculosis". Washington Business Journal. March 15, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2017. 
  22. ↑ "Aeras". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 6, 2017. 
  23. ↑ "OPP1061545". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  24. ↑ "Landmark Summit Puts Women at Heart of Global Health Agenda". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. July 11, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  25. ↑ "Family Planning 2020". Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 "Reinvent the Toilet". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "OPP1054296". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  28. ↑ "OPP1053393". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  29. ↑ "OPP1065563". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  30. ↑ "OPP1053230". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  31. ↑ "OPP1140726". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  32. ↑ "OPP1081050". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  33. ↑ "OPP1081048". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  34. ↑ "OPP1081122". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  35. ↑ "OPP1059029". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  36. ↑ "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge Debuts in China". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  37. ↑ "OPP1084547". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  38. ↑ "Upworthy - Posts". Facebook. November 12, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  39. ↑ Derek Thompson (November 14, 2013). "Upworthy: I Thought This Website Was Crazy, but What Happened Next Changed Everything". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  40. ↑ "Tough bosses no problem for Gates Foundation's new CEO". The Seattle Times. June 30, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2017. 
  41. ↑ "OPP1105858". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  42. ↑ "OPP1107365". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  43. ↑ "OPP1107194". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  44. ↑ "OPP1107076". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  45. ↑ "OPP1108403". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  46. ↑ "OPP1107518". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  47. ↑ "OPP1112376". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  48. ↑ "OPP1111431". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  49. ↑ "OPP1121164". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  50. ↑ Bill Gates (March 18, 2015). "Opinion | Bill Gates: The Ebola Crisis Was Terrible. But Next Time Could Be Much Worse.". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  51. ↑ "OPP1132229". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  52. ↑ "OPP1126780". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  53. ↑ "Another Gates Education Experiment Grinds to an End, Leaving Questionable Results Behind". Nonprofit Quarterly. September 28, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  54. ↑ "OPP1127647". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  55. ↑ "OPP1139537". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  56. ↑ "OPP1129600". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  57. ↑ "OPP1138782". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  58. ↑ "OPP1131658". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  59. ↑ "OPP1148968". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  60. ↑ "OPP1149708". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  61. ↑ "OPP1148615". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  62. ↑ "OPP1148133". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  63. ↑ "OPP1132348". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  64. ↑ "OPP1105053". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  65. ↑ Catherine Cheney (December 23, 2016). "What will it take for the new Gates-led clean energy fund to be a breakthrough?". Devex. Retrieved May 1, 2017. 
  66. ↑ "Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  67. ↑ Nida Najar (April 20, 2017). "India's Ban on Foreign Money for Health Group Hits Gates Foundation". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  68. ↑ Eleanor Ross (April 21, 2017). "Why India is blocking funding from the Gates Foundation". Newsweek. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
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