September 20, 2009, The Seattle Times — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives away $3.5 billion a year in grants, but to stretch its dollars further, the nonprofit has begun making loans, equity investments and loan guarantees.
August 20, 2009, The Seattle Times — Jeff Raikes has kept a pretty low profile in his first year as chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The man who built Microsoft Office now runs the largest private foundation in the world, which gives out more than $3 billion a year from an endowment of $30 billion.
July 27, 2009, The Seattle Times — For most nonprofits, raising money means asking donors to write a check.
June 19, 2009, The Seattle Times — Adnan Mahmud's inspiration to create a new kind of charity started when he passed a stranger at a cemetery.
June 18, 2009, The Seattle Times — Global health funding has quadrupled in less than two decades to almost $22 billion, boosted by U.S. public funding, corporate donations and giving from private foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
May 18, 2009, The Seattle Times — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving its annual million dollar award for global health to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
