Each week, Food Tank is rounding up a few news stories that inspire excitement, infuriation, or curiosity. The Federal Government Shutdown Ends Earlier this week, eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus sided with Republican colleagues by voting to reopen the government and end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. On Wednesday, the House passed…
More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process. French Gates said the majority of the recipients of the Action for Women’s Health challenge have not previously received funding from her organization, Pivotal, or from…
Bill Gates wants to add a new element to routine medicals for Americans over the age of 60: Blood tests that identify whether the patient may be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and as such, be offered preventative medication. The Microsoft founder is heavily involved with programs to prevent disease across the globe, efforts that will likely…
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett ushered in a new Gilded Era of philanthropic giving, likened in influence to the Rockefellers and Carnegies. But charity work is about to look very different as higher taxes are threatened on liberal institutions, and new methods of giving are popularized by women mega-donors. MacKenzie Scott has become a pioneer…
(Corrects ‘infection’ to ‘disease’ in paragraph 5 to clarify what the inactivated polio vaccine protects against, whether dosed fully or fractionally) By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Eradicating polio is still possible despite significant funding cuts, global health officials said on Tuesday as they outlined how they will cope with the shortfall. The budget of the…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned that shrinking global health funding is putting millions of children’s lives at risk. Gates was speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event where he announced a $912 million pledge to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. During the event, he cautioned that private donations cannot fully replace government support. “I am…
By Jennifer Rigby NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Monday as he urged governments to reverse global health funding cuts. Speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, Gates said the world was at a…
CEOs with major controlling stakes in their billion-dollar companies have the power to make themselves richer and richer, but one 82-year-old tech leader isn’t cashing in for herself. Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic Systems, has been selling her non-voting shares back to the company—and redirecting the profits elsewhere. “I’ve never cashed a single share…
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, launched in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, that invites the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to publicly commit to giving away at least 50% of their wealth to philanthropy, either during their lifetimes or in their wills. The Institute for Policy Studies’ report “The Giving Pledge…
Bill Gates says a single New York Times column he read in 1997 with the headline “For Third World, Water Is Still a Deadly Drink,” pushed him from Microsoft’s helm toward global health, launching a drive that has helped cut childhood deaths from diarrhea by more than 70%. What Happened: Writing on his Gates Notes…