Meet the woman leading vaccine innovation in Senegal to fight Rift Valley fever and empower Africa’s next generation of ...

The Big Easy is brimming with talent, and untapped potential. YouthForce NOLA is helping students turn real-life work experience into real-world success.

The foundation’s Family Planning team works to ensure that women and girls can access the contraceptives and family planning services they want and thus exercise their right to decide whether to have ...

To produce the first television, online and mobile channel run by young people to disseminate stories on development by combining an existing television channel with media partnerships and creative ...

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 ...

SEATTLE -- Melinda Gates, along with Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and more than 500 guests, marked the groundbreaking today for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new headquarters. The new ...

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 ...

Since making our first grants in South Africa in 1999, we have been committed to addressing issues such as the country’s high rates of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), social inequality, and inadequate ...

Vishal Gujadhur oversees country finance efforts for the Development Policy and Finance team and is based in the foundation’s Washington, D.C., office. He leads a group that addresses how countries ...

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 ...

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 support farmers and governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that are seeking a sustainable, inclusive agricultural transformation—one that creates economic opportunity, respects limits on ...