Who We Are, What We Do, And How We Do It · Who We Are, What We Do, And How We Do It . ......
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EVERY PERSON DESERVES THE CHANCE TO LIVE A HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE LIFE.
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Our History
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Bill and Melinda read an article
about rotavirus.
They officially create the foundation.
Warren Buffett decides to give
Berkshire Hathaway stock.
1998 2000 2006
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2008
Bill joins Melinda full-time at the
foundation.
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What We Focus On
What affects the most people with the most urgent needs?
Where can we make the greatest impact?
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How We Focus
Form critical partnerships
Find scalable, sustainable solutions
Leverage science and technology
Take big risks
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Our Areas of Focus
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25% United States Program
50% Global Health Program
25% Global Development Program
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Our Approach to Giving
STEP ONE: Develop Strategy
STEP TWO: Make Grants
STEP THREE: Measure Progress
STEP FOUR: Adjust Strategy
1 Develop Strategy
2 Make Grants
3 Measure Progress
4 Adjust Strategy
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2010 Grants Paid Summary Global Development Program $489,797
Global Health Program $1,485,337
United States Program $380,966
For the year ended December 31, 2010. Amount in thousands.
(by Program Area)
Operations/ Non-Program Grants $114,245
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How We Advocate
Make speeches
Leverage the power of media
Facilitate meetings
Encourage policies
Sponsor public campaigns
Commission reports
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Agricultural Development
Helping small farmers boost their productivity, increase their incomes, and build better lives.
Financial Services for the Poor
Expanding access to safe, affordable financial services— especially savings—in developing countries.
Global Libraries
Providing free access to computers and the Internet in thousands of public libraries in emerging economies.
Special Initiatives
Pursuing other ways of making focused, innovative, and results-driven investments in partnerships we believe can have an impact on people’s lives.
Providing hundreds of millions safe and sustainable access to sanitation and improving the quality of their water and hygiene.
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Areas of Focus
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Increasing opportunities for the world’s poorest people to lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.
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Areas of Focus
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Harnessing advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries.
Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases
Working to develop and deliver low-cost interventions that prevent and treat diarrhea-related illness.
Family Planning Improving health and saving lives by increasing access to high-quality, voluntary family planning services.
Malaria With proven control programs and promising new research, making headway against the eventual goal of malaria eradication.
Reducing the burden of HIV by accelerating the development of prevention technologies and demonstrating effective and efficient models for delivering HIV prevention and treatment.
HIV
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Nutrition Focusing on preventing malnutrition in young children to ensure proper physical and cognitive growth and improve disease resistance.
Pneumonia Through improved access to affordable vaccines, significantly reducing the number of children in developing countries who contract pneumonia.
Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health
Advancing the use of practical tools and strategies to reduce the number of mothers and newborns who die during and immediately after childbirth.
Neglected and Other Infectious Diseases
Working with our partners to reduce the burden of neglected diseases, such as guinea worm and river blindness.
Areas of Focus (cont.)
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Tobacco By accelerating the adoption of strategies to prevent and reduce tobacco use, reducing the occurrence of tobacco-related disease in developing countries.
Tuberculosis Developing and introducing with our partners new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat tuberculosis.
With our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, exploring every avenue to help eradicate this crippling disease.
Polio
Vaccines Focusing on the discovery, development, and delivery of vaccines, which offer the greatest and most cost-effective way to prevent disease.
Areas of Focus (cont.)
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Providing greater opportunity through improving high school and postsecondary education, access to information, and stable housing.
Education
College-Readiness Ensuring that students graduate from high school ready for college.
Postsecondary Success
Ensuring that students earn a postsecondary credential with value in the workplace.
Ensuring access to computers and the Internet. U.S. Libraries
Pacific Northwest Breaking the cycle of family homelessness.
Areas of Focus
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The World Today
Individuals Nonprofits Governments Businesses
TOGETHER WE CAN HELP PEOPLE
IMPROVE THEIR LIVES.
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