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Gates Foundation Announces External Governance Review and 20% Staff Reduction Amid Epstein Fallout

US House Oversight Committee Issues Subpoena to Gates Foundation Over Epstein-Era Documents

Fortune Investigation Links Gates Associates Melanie Walker and Steven Sinofsky to Ongoing Epstein Contact

Gates Foundation launches independent investigation into Epstein ties ahead of congressional testimony

Gates Foundation Commits $1.4 Billion for Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Africa and Asia

UNHCR–Gates Foundation partnership reaches nearly $20 million across ten grants spanning emergency relief, maternal health, and sanitation innovation

Committed $1.4 billion to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate extremes

Called on wealthy nations to dramatically increase foreign aid to Africa and extend debt relief to overburdened African governments

Pledged $1,000,003 to UNHCR for Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia's invasion

Gates and Bezos Co-Host Food Systems and Deforestation Workshop at COP26 Side Event

Gates Foundation Grants $16 Million to World Resources Institute for Food, Land-Use, and Forest Research

Gates Foundation Pledges $315 Million to CGIAR for Climate-Smart Agriculture at COP26

Gates Foundation committed COVID-19 emergency response grants to BRAC and BRAC USA, supporting programs reaching Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Gates Foundation awarded additional grant to GCIR for immigrant and refugee support during the COVID-19 pandemic

Directed nearly $6 billion in agriculture grants to Africa over 17 years — the largest private agricultural aid commitment in history

Launches Gates Ag One to develop climate-resilient crops for smallholder farmers

New Yorker Investigation Reveals MIT's $7.6 Million in Epstein-Connected Donations, Prompts Gates Foundation Review

Argued in the Washington Post that Africa's population growth without health investment would generate unprecedented migration pressure

Gates Foundation renewed grant to Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees for US immigrant advocacy coordination

Published Goalkeepers 2019 Report on Africa's youth demographic potential

Gates Foundation invests $200 million in global mental health research

Gates Foundation Commits $40 Million to Livestock Genetics for Climate-Resilient Dairy in Africa

Awarded $3 million for the Mobile Money for Resilience platform in Jordan, providing financial services to Syrian refugees

Committed $1 billion to malaria eradication at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Malaria Summit

RAND study declares Gates's $575 million teacher effectiveness initiative a failure

Published Goalkeepers 2018 Report on women's health as an economic multiplier

Gates Foundation Scales Nigeria Food Fortification to Reach 73 Million People

Gates Foundation Awards $11 Million to FAO for African Food and Agriculture Policy

Gates Foundation significantly expanded its MENA humanitarian refugee response to over $20 million

Launched the Goalkeepers initiative at the UN General Assembly, tying health and development investment in Africa to reducing forced displacement

Warned that European generosity toward African migrants creates 'perverse incentives' and called for foreign aid investment instead

Gates Foundation Funds CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform to Modernise Crop Variety Development and Guarantee Open Access

Obama delivered keynote at the inaugural Gates Foundation Goalkeepers event

Gates Foundation awarded a grant to the International Rescue Committee for global humanitarian and refugee health programs

Funded container-based sanitation — portable, waterless toilet systems for urban slums

MIT Media Lab Receives $2 Million Anonymous Donation Routed Through Jeffrey Epstein

Gates Foundation Grants $14.5 Million to The Nature Conservancy for Agricultural Land-Use and Conservation

Gates Foundation granted to Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees for DACA implementation support

Co-authored a New York Times op-ed with Warren Buffett and Sheldon Adelson calling for comprehensive immigration reform

Gates Foundation Backs Cornell Alliance for Science to Advocate Evidence-Based Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa and Asia

Gates Foundation Donates to MIT Media Lab During Period of Epstein Funding

Common Core backlash — Gates acknowledges overreach as more than a dozen states reverse course

Internal Gates Foundation Emails Show Epstein Receiving Classified Polio Programme Intelligence

Gates Foundation Funds Institute for Protein Innovation at Harvard Following Epstein's Orchestration

Gates Foundation Awards $9.6 Million to One Acre Fund for Agroforestry Integration Across East Africa

Seeded Africa Water Facility with $6 million — urban sanitation access for 15 million Africans

Gates Foundation donates $8.5 million to International Peace Institute later found directed by Epstein

Gates Foundation Funds Distribution of Flood-Tolerant Sub1 Rice to Millions of Farming Households in Bangladesh and India

Funded groundwater mapping across sub-Saharan Africa to guide sustainable rural water access

Funded fecal sludge management systems for urban South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

Funded Aquatest — the world's first portable, affordable water quality diagnostic tool ($13 million grant)

Funded Ethiopian Soil Information System — the first comprehensive soil health map of Africa's largest farming nation

Gates Foundation Awards $10.3 Million to IRRI for Golden Rice Vitamin A Biofortification in the Philippines

Gates Foundation Awards $8.3 Million to Danforth Plant Science Center for BioCassava Plus Vitamin-Fortified Cassava

Invested over $200 million in sanitation technology R&D over the first decade of the Reinvent the Toilet initiative

Co-funded USAID WASH for Life program — $17 million matching grant for clean water innovations

Obama chairs two-hour White House meeting with Giving Pledge members on philanthropy and policy

Launched the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge to solve global sanitation

Gates Foundation Supports Smallpox Eradication Knowledge Symposium

Gates Publicly Endorses GMO Crops as Essential to Feeding a Warming World — Defending Intellectual Property as R&D Incentive

Gates Foundation Funds CIMMYT Wheat Research to Develop Ug99 Stem-Rust-Resistant Varieties for African and Asian Farmers

Backed drip irrigation scale-up programs for water-starved smallholder farmers in Africa and India

Abandoned $2 billion small schools initiative after Gates publicly acknowledged 'unimpressive' results

Met President Obama at the White House to discuss the Giving Pledge

Co-founded the Giving Pledge — a global commitment of billionaire wealth

Gates Foundation Grants $23 Million to World Cocoa Foundation to Combat Deforestation in West Africa

Gates Foundation Funds Promotion of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Across Sub-Saharan Africa to Fight Vitamin A Deficiency

Gates Foundation Becomes One of CGIAR's Largest Funders — Committing Hundreds of Millions to International Crop Research

Invested over $200 million in Common Core Standards aligned with Obama's Race to the Top

Gates Foundation publicly endorsed Obama's landmark education reform speech

Invested $18 million in green super rice project with Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Gates Foundation and Buffett Foundation Jointly Fund $47 Million WEMA Partnership for GM Drought-Tolerant Maize in Africa

Gates Foundation Announces $306 Million Agricultural Development Commitment at Davos

Gates Foundation announced a partnership with the World Food Programme for nutrition programs serving conflict-displaced populations

Gates Foundation Funds BioCassava Plus Project to Develop Nutritionally Enhanced Cassava for Sub-Saharan Africa

Gates Foundation Co-Funds Water Efficient Maize for Africa — Drought-Tolerant Seed Project Reaching Millions of Farmers

Funded Digital Green — video-based agricultural extension reaching millions of smallholder farmers

Funded schistosomiasis and neglected tropical disease drug discovery programs