I strongly recommend Melinda Gates' last TEDTalk.

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Melinda French Gates What nonprofits can learn from Coca Cola

Private foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have also made significant contributions.

It would mobilize flows coming from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as a pilot IFF mechanism.

Key partners have included WHO, the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Kiwanis International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And one in particular, is one that we're working on with the Acumen Fund, in a project that's been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

UNICEF will seek to expand its collaboration with such private foundations as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, Kiwanis, the United Nations Foundation and the Ellison Institute for World Health.

Pada Surat Tahunan tahun ini, saya dan Melinda bertaruh bahwa Afrika akan dapat memberi makan dirinya sendiri selama 15 tahun mendatang. Bahkan dengan resiko perubahan iklim, menurut saya, saya akan memenangkan taruhan ini.

SAN FRANCISCO Last fall, Bill and Melinda Gates sent shock waves through the global health community when they announced the audacious goal of eradicating human malaria from the face of the planet. Nothing less, they urged, would be enough.

Major contributors reporting by the publication deadline included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Fund for International Development of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

FONCA also serves as the financial arm of CONACULTA, in managing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's contribution for the purchase of equipment and the operation of the programme, which is developed by the CONACULTA Libraries Department together with a number of the Federal Government's departments.

At TEDxChange, Melinda Gates makes a provocative case for nonprofits taking a cue from corporations such as Coca Cola, whose plugged in, global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants and can get a Coke. Why shouldn't this work for condoms, sanitation, vaccinations too?

So is the 19 page annual letter that describes the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world s largest philanthropy. But for someone as smart as Gates, who can afford to hire experts on any subject under the sun, some of his foundation s strategies are baffling.

Coincidentally, Kahneman s article appeared the same week that Buffett announced the largest philanthropic donation in US history 30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and another 7 billion to other charitable foundations. Even when the donations made by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller are adjusted for inflation, Buffett s is greater.

2. Welcomes the increased funding for malaria interventions and for research and development of preventative and control tools from the international community, including from the Group of Eight, the United States of America, the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the European Commission and other sources of bilateral funding

Partnerships have also been strengthened with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, including through the Child Survival Partnership, the Safe Motherhood Initiative and the Healthy Newborn Partnership.

Since its launch in 2000, the GAVI Alliance has sought to increase access to life saving vaccines for the world s poorest children. In partnership with the World Bank, the WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, it has used innovative financing tools to raise funds for global immunization programs, while working with industry to lower the prices of vaccines.

Last month, Bill Gates announced that he will do what Carnegie recommended in two years, he will change his priorities so that he can work full time for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which he and his wife founded. Even earlier than Carnegie, who quit at 65, Gates will devote his life to spending his huge fortune on philanthropy.

This is how malaria, AIDS, and vaccine preventable diseases have been battled successfully in the past 15 years. The United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and other governments teamed up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, private companies like Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Ericsson, Sumitomo Chemical, and others to ensure that life saving vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics could reach the poorest of the poor.

Programs such as the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation have helped make drugs available to treat 2 million people infected with HIV in lower and middle income countries. But fewer than 25 of the people in these countries who need antiretroviral drugs are receiving them.