*Our Social Entrepreneur

Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationIt sponsors a Global Health Program that uses science and technology to save people living in poverty. They focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries. Where proven tools exist, they support sustainable ways to improve their delivery, and where they don't, they invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics.

*THEIR VALUES AND BELIEF

BeliefEvery Life has Equal Value

Values*Optimism*Collaboration*Rigor*Innovation

Areas of Funding

*HistoryIn 1994, the foundation was formed as the William H. Gates Foundation with an initial stock gift of US$94 million. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. After a merger with the Gates Learning Foundation, in 2000, Gates gave an additional US$126 million. During the foundation's following years, funding grew to US$2 billion. A few years later, Gates announced his plans to transition out of a day-to-day role with Microsoft. As a result, his plan took effect from July 31, 2008 to allow him to devote more time to working with the foundation.

* History and Impact of their Venture

* Their Impact on the World

Endorsing vaccines as the world's most cost-effective public health measure, Bill and Melinda Gates announced in January 2010 that their foundation would more than double its spending on them over the next decade, to at least $10 billion. The change could save the lives of as many as 8 million children by 2020.The foundation's work ranges from providing vaccines to prevent childhood diseases to conducting research to improve agricultural yields and prevent malaria, among other things. One of the founders' biggest wishes is to help discover vaccines and other tools that will prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

*Priority Areas of Focus(1)

They focus on developing ways and solutions to prevent infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

In addition, they also work on developing health solutions for family planning, nutrition, maternal, neonatal and child health, tobacco control and vaccine-preventable diseases.

*Priority Areas of Focus(2)

3 cross-cutting programs help them successfully address their areas of focus:*Discovery---closing gaps in knowledge and science

and creating critical platforms technologies in areas where current tools are lacking.*Delivery---implementing and scaling up proven

approaches by identifying and proactively addressing obstacles that typically lie in the path of adoption and uptake.*Policy and Advocacy---promoting more and better

resources, effective policies and greater visibility of global health so that they may effectively address the foundation’s priority health targets.

*How They Work

Most of their work is done through grants to partners in their priority areas of focus. They seek extensive input from external experts and from their Global Health advisory panel.

They have established offices to help manage large programs in China and India. Many of their health efforts are integrated with those in their Global Development program, which focuses on reducing hunger and poverty.

*Credits and Sources

*http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Pages/foundation-fact-sheet.aspx

*http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/gates_bill_and_melinda_foundation/index.html

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

*http://bb.valuesventure.com/LearnResources.aspx

*http://www.google.com.sg

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