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 ...

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

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 ...

NEW YORK -- Helen Keller Worldwide today announced a $5 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen efforts to combat trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable ...

CHICAGO -- Nearly every U.S. public library offers free access to computers and the Internet, but overall libraries are challenged to provide enough workstations to meet demand, pay for ongoing ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In coming years, rapid advances in artificial intelligence(AI), will play an increasingly large role in global health and development, with the potential to fundamentally alter the way people ...

We provide financial and technical support to our Chinese partners and build bridges to international cooperation to help them accelerate product, technology, and systems innovation in health, ...

As CEO of the Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman leads the organization in service of our mission – to help every person have the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. Knowing that we cannot ...