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.

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of December 14, 2021.

Year "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"
2000 84
2002 212
2004 401
2006 812
2008 1,250
2010 2,030
2012 2,930
2014 3,870
2016 4,740
2018 4,810
2020 6,070


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Google trends

The image below shows Google Trends data for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Foundation) from January 2004 to January 2021, when the screenshot was taken.[1]

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Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 1995 to 2019. [2]

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Wikipedia views

The image shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia page Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from June 2015; to January 2021.

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Full timeline

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.[3][4]
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.[5]
2011 April 28 The Gates Foundation announces 88 new grants as part of its Grand Challenges Exploration program.[6]
2011 May 17 Bill Gates gives a speech to the sixty-fourth World Health Assembly.[7]
2011 June 4 The new Gates Foundation Seattle headquarters opens to the public for the first time.[8]
2011 June 13 Together with the governments of the United Kingdom and Liberia, the Gates Foundation hosts the first Gavi pledging conference. At the conference, donors commit $4.3 billion to Gavi.[9]
2011 July Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $87 million to Shared Learning Collaborative, LLC.[10] In February 2013, the grantee would rebrand itself to inBloom.[11] However, by April 2014 the project would end in failure.[12]
2011 July 19 Competition The Gates Foundation announces $41.5 million worth of grants to encourage innovation in toilet technology.[13][14]
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.[15]
2011 November The Gates Foundation awards $51 million to Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.[16]
2011 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $954 million to Gavi.[17]
2011 December Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $750 million to the Global Fund.[18] The grant is announced in January 2012.[19]
2012 Expansion The Gates Foundation opens a new office in Addis Ababa.[20]
2012 January 26 Op-ed Bill Gates writes the op-ed "The Truth About Foreign Aid" for The New York Times.[21]
2012 February 4 The Gates Foundation's public visitor center opens.[22]
2012 February 22 Op-ed Bill Gates writes the op-ed "Shame Is Not the Solution" for The New York Times, about teacher performance assessments.[23]
2012 March The Gates Foundation commits up to $220 million over five years to Aeras, a nonprofit that develops vaccines for tuberculosis.[24] The grant was apparently given in January.[25]
2012 April Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $89 million to the World Health Organization Nigeria Country Office.[26]
2012 July The London Summit on Family Planning takes place.[27] 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.[28]
2012 July 16 Leadership The Gates Foundation appoints Girindre Beeharry as director of the India office.[29]
2012 August 14–15 Competition The Gates Foundation hosts a two-day Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, Washington.[30] On the first day of the fair, Bill Gates announces the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.[31]
2012 September 13 Expansion The Gates Foundation signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of Nigeria. This MOU allows the foundation to "establish a presence" (i.e. open an office) in Abuja, the capital. Sometime later in 2012, the foundation would open an office there.[32]
2012 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $59 million to PATH Vaccine Solutions.[33]
2012 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $50 million to the World Health Organization.[34]
2013 January Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $52 million to The One Campaign.[35]
2013 January Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $52 million to The Task Force for Global Health, Inc.[36]
2013 January 8 A Gates Foundation-funded study on how to evaluate teachers is published. The study is "a three-year, $45 million research project".[37]
2013 February Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $57 million to the Islamic Development Bank.[38]
2013 March Competition As part of its Grand Exploration Challenges, the Gates Foundation announces a competition to design a "next generation" condom.[39][40] By November the winners are announced.[41]
2013 April Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $204 million to the World Health Organization.[42]
2013 April Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $84 million to the United States Fund for UNICEF.[43]
2013 April 25 At the Global Vaccine Summit, Bill Gates seeks an additional $1.5 billion to eradicate polio by 2018.[44]
2013 June Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $63 million to the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund.[45]
2013 July Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $185 million to Medicines for Malaria Venture.[46]
2013 August 22 Competition The Gates Foundation announces the launch of Reinvent the Toilet Challenge: China.[47]
2013 September 10 Leadership Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Gates Foundation, announces that he is stepping down from his role at the foundation.[48][49]
2013 October Competition 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.[30]
2013 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $60 million to the World Health Organization.[50]
2013 November 12 The viral content website Upworthy announces its partnership with the Gates Foundation.[51][52]
2013 December 17 Leadership 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.[53]
2014 March Competition 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.[30]
2014 June Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $241 million to Gavi.[54]
2014 June Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $123 million to the United States Fund for UNICEF.[55]
2014 June Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $50 million to Calibr.[56]
2014 September Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $275 million to the World Health Organization.[57]
2014 September Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $156 million to PATH.[58]
2014 September Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $81 million to the Government of Japan "to procure OPV for the eradication of polio in Nigeria".[59]
2014 September Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $61 million to PATH Vaccine Solutions.[60]
2014 October Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $60 million to the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.[61]
2014 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $51 million to the World Health Organization Pakistan Country Office.[62]
2015 March 18 Op-ed Bill Gates writes the op-ed "How to Fight the Next Epidemic" for The New York Times.[63]
2015 June Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $164 million to Agence Française de Développement.[64]
2015 June Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $72 million to Emory University.[65]
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".[66]
2015 September Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $89 million to Novavax, Inc.[67]
2015 October Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $417 million to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.[68]
2015 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $145 million to Global Alliance for TB Drug Development.[69]
2015 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $78 million to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.[70]
2016 January Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $1.55 billion to Gavi.[71]
2016 April Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $100 million to the Islamic Development Bank.[72]
2016 May Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $79 million to the Government of Japan for "to support eradication of Polio in Pakistan".[73]
2016 May Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $75 million to Innovative Vector Control Consortium.[74]
2016 July Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $64 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[75]
2016 October Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $210 million to the University of Washington Foundation.[76]
2016 November Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $284 million to the Global Fund.[77]
2016 December Bill Gates announces Breakthrough Energy Ventures, part of Breakthrough Energy Coalition.[78]
2017 March Grant The Gates Foundation awards a grant worth $200 million to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.[79]
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.[80][81]
2021 May 3 Leadership After 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates announce their divorce.[82][83]

Meta information on the timeline

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

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation". trends.google.com. Retrieved 6 January 2021. 
  2. ↑ "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation". books.google.com. Retrieved 31 January 2021. 
  3. ↑ Donald G. McNeil Jr. (January 31, 2011). "Gates Calls for a Final Push to Eradicate Polio". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2017. 
  4. ↑ "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. 
  5. ↑ Doughton, Sandi; Heim, Kristi (February 23, 2011). "Does Gates funding of media taint objectivity?". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  6. ↑ "Foundation Funds Bold Ideas". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. April 28, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  7. ↑ "Mr Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation". World Health Organization. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  8. ↑ John Cook (June 2, 2011). "Inside look at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new Seattle HQ". GeekWire. Retrieved May 2, 2017. 
  9. ↑ "Gavi pledging conference June 2011". Gavi. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  10. ↑ "Shared Learning Collaborative, LLC". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  11. ↑ 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. 
  12. ↑ Valerie Strauss. "$100 million Gates-funded student data project ends in failure". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  13. ↑ John D. Sutter. "Gates Foundation: 'We need to reinvent the toilet'". CNN. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  14. ↑ Ben Rooney (July 21, 2011). "Microwave Toilet Could Solve Africa Sanitation Problems". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 4, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "September 2011 - Alliance magazine". Alliance magazine. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  17. ↑ "OPP1045310". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  18. ↑ "OPP1019422". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  19. ↑ "Foundation Commits $750 Million to Global Fund". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  20. ↑ "Ethiopia". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 8, 2017. 
  21. ↑ Bill Gates (January 26, 2012). "Opinion | The Truth About Foreign Aid". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  22. ↑ "Why the New Gates Foundation Visitor Center Isn't Just for Kids". Seattle Magazine. February 2, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2017. 
  23. ↑ Bill Gates (February 22, 2012). "Opinion | For Teachers, Shame Is No Solution". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2017. 
  24. ↑ "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to give $220 million to Aeras to fight tuberculosis". Washington Business Journal. March 15, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2017. 
  25. ↑ "Aeras". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 6, 2017. 
  26. ↑ "OPP1061545". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "Landmark Summit Puts Women at Heart of Global Health Agenda". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. July 11, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  28. ↑ "Family Planning 2020". Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  29. ↑ "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Appoints Girindre Beeharry to lead the India Office". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 "Reinvent the Toilet". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  31. ↑ "Bill Gates Names Winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. August 14, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  32. ↑ "Gates Foundation to Open Office in Abuja". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  33. ↑ "OPP1054296". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  34. ↑ "OPP1053393". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  35. ↑ "OPP1065563". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  36. ↑ "OPP1053230". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  37. ↑ Lyndsey Layton (January 8, 2013). "Gates Foundation study: We've figured out what makes a good teacher". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  38. ↑ "OPP1140726". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  39. ↑ "Bill Gates to boost sex lives of millions with condom redesign". The Independent. March 24, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  40. ↑ Michaeleen Doucleff (March 25, 2013). "Gates Foundation Says It's Time For A Snazzier Condom". NPR.org. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  41. ↑ Tracy Miller (November 21, 2013). "Better condom designs awarded $100k by Gates Foundation". NY Daily News. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  42. ↑ "OPP1081050". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  43. ↑ "OPP1081048". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  44. ↑ Stefania Bianchi (April 25, 2013). "Bill Gates Seeks $1.5 Billion More to Eradicate Polio by 2018". Businessweek. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  45. ↑ "OPP1081122". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  46. ↑ "OPP1059029". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  47. ↑ "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge Debuts in China". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 3, 2017. 
  48. ↑ Shira Ovide (September 10, 2013). "Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes to Depart". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  49. ↑ Jay Yarow (September 10, 2013). "The CEO Of Bill Gates' Foundation Is Retiring". Business Insider. Retrieved May 11, 2017. 
  50. ↑ "OPP1084547". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  51. ↑ "Upworthy - Posts". Facebook. November 12, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  52. ↑ Derek Thompson (November 14, 2013). "Upworthy: I Thought This Website Was Crazy, but What Happened Next Changed Everything". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  53. ↑ "Tough bosses no problem for Gates Foundation's new CEO". The Seattle Times. June 30, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2017. 
  54. ↑ "OPP1105858". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  55. ↑ "OPP1107365". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  56. ↑ "OPP1107194". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  57. ↑ "OPP1107076". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  58. ↑ "OPP1108403". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  59. ↑ "OPP1107518". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  60. ↑ "OPP1112376". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  61. ↑ "OPP1111431". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  62. ↑ "OPP1121164". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  63. ↑ 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. 
  64. ↑ "OPP1132229". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  65. ↑ "OPP1126780". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  66. ↑ "Another Gates Education Experiment Grinds to an End, Leaving Questionable Results Behind". Nonprofit Quarterly. September 28, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  67. ↑ "OPP1127647". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  68. ↑ "OPP1139537". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  69. ↑ "OPP1129600". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  70. ↑ "OPP1138782". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  71. ↑ "OPP1131658". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  72. ↑ "OPP1148968". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  73. ↑ "OPP1149708". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  74. ↑ "OPP1148615". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  75. ↑ "OPP1148133". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  76. ↑ "OPP1132348". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  77. ↑ "OPP1105053". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  78. ↑ 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. 
  79. ↑ "Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 10, 2017. 
  80. ↑ 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. 
  81. ↑ Eleanor Ross (April 21, 2017). "Why India is blocking funding from the Gates Foundation". Newsweek. Retrieved May 9, 2017. 
  82. ↑ "Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce after 27 years". the Guardian. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021. 
  83. ↑ Novet, Jordan (3 May 2021). "Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are splitting up after 27 years". CNBC. Retrieved 4 May 2021. 
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