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Philanthropic foundation funding global health and development
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Philanthropic foundation funding global health and development
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Gates Foundation is a philanthropic organization funding efforts to reduce poverty, disease, and inequity worldwide, working through grants to nonprofits, governments, and research institutions rather than delivering services directly. Its funding spans maternal and child health, infectious disease elimination including malaria, TB, HIV, and polio, smallholder farmer development, and women's economic empowerment, spread across thousands of active grants. What sets Gates Foundation apart is its selective, proactive grantmaking: staff invite organizations to submit proposals, run Grand Challenges competitions, and publish grant data and financials openly. The goal is to give every person, regardless of where they are born, the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
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Founded
2000
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- September 22, 2026 Nigeria maternal platform targets 500,000 women, 5,000 workers, 500 facilities.
- September 18, 2026 Google partnership seeks AI tools for 200 million farmers.
- September 21, 2026 language coalition spans 60 partners, aiming to reach 3 billion people.
What critics are saying
- January 2026 layoffs target 500 jobs by 2030, signaling shrinking internal capacity.
- April 2026 Epstein investigation and July 2026 Buffett exit intensify reputational and governance scrutiny.
- If AI grants miss outcomes, Gates Foundation risks becoming a prestige allocator, not a system builder.
What makes Gates Foundation unique
- September 2026: Gates Foundation pledged $1 billion for equitable AI across health, education, agriculture.
- It couples grants with Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and MTN technical distribution.
- Its 2045 spend-down discipline forces aggressive capital deployment instead of perpetual grantmaking.
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AN2 Therapeutics has received extended funding from the Gates Foundation to continue its tuberculosis research collaboration with GSK. The funding supports development of boron-based leucyl-tRNA synthetase (LeuRS) inhibitors for TB treatment. Tuberculosis remains a leading cause of death globally, affecting an estimated 10.7 million people in 2024. LeuRS is a clinically validated target, underlying several compounds including epetraborole and ganfeborole, which showed proof-of-concept efficacy in a Phase 2 TB study. "The award of additional funding reflects the progress made by the collaboration and the potential of boron chemistry to enable the discovery of differentiated medicines against challenging infectious disease targets," said Vince Hernandez, Senior Vice President of Research at AN2 Therapeutics. AN2 Therapeutics is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecule therapeutics from its boron chemistry platform.
New humanitarian players hit UN sidelines in search of galvanizing force to counter aid cuts. PUBLISHED: September 25, 2026 at 12:31 PM CDT UPDATED: September 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM CDT By JAMES POLLARD NEW YORK (AP) - New players hit the United Nations General Assembly sidelines this week as humanitarian groups searched for a counterweight to foreign aid cuts that have hampered global fights against disease, malnutrition and poverty. Nonprofits, foundations and corporations pack Manhattan ballrooms and closed-door meetings each September to direct some sliver of the world's attention - and funding - to their missions. Timed annually to the U.N. General Assembly's high-level meetings, the scramble is even more urgent after recent sharp declines in funding sent by some of the richest countries to poorer ones. Across the many conferences, forums and roundtables, the week exposed the gulf between the biggest aid organizations, who have the money and connections to weather this period of public aid retrenchment, and others grappling with their role in the changing landscape for humanitarian funding. Big movers still made big pledges. The Gates Foundation touted its $1 billion commitment to AI-powered tools for farmers, educators and health workers. Bill Clinton called on Clinton Global Initiative attendees to "step into the void created by retreating governments." There, former USAID administrator Samantha Power highlighted the ways her coalition to end childhood lead poisoning adapted when U.S. President Donald Trump's administration dismantled her former agency, USAID. "Philanthropies took risks. Governments took ownership. Multilateral institutions invested and the coalition kept moving," Power, a Harvard professor, said Wednesday at CGI. "That is the story of optimism I want to leave you with today." Other mid-sized actors described a mixed mood. Major foundations are still in "soul-searching mode," according to Global Fund for Children co-CEO John Hecklinger. His fund serves as an intermediary between well-endowed foundations and more grassroots nonprofits. Funders, he finds, understandably can't fill every gap but are also hesitant to maintain the previous status quo. New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections Watch More "There's not this forced, strategic approach. The vision is disjointed," said Ann Lee, the co-founder and CEO of Community Organized Relief Effort. "It's very, very sort of ad hoc." Nonprofits turn to new donor countries. Still, the U.N. sidelines brought out new nonprofits and funders eager for impact. Eleanor Crook Foundation CEO William Moore spent the week garnering support for his fledgling nonprofit to eradicate child deaths from acute malnutrition. Operation End Starvation launched this summer with a $100 million, two-year commitment from the U.S. State Department. But Moore anticipates needing 17 times more every year to purchase enough therapeutic foods such as peanut butter paste and get them into starving children's mouths. On Wednesday, OES announced a $5 million grant from the Gates Foundation. The goal is to eventually become for malnutrition what vaccines alliance Gavi is for immunizations or what The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is for the deadliest infections. His pitch: OES will pay for overhead and match one-third of government money through philanthropy if countries cover the costs of the foods and delivery. Moore noted one lunch he had scheduled with Nigeria's health minister - part of a sector-wide shift to partner with the high-burden countries where aid organizations work. "They've said, 'We're ready for this. We're ready to take on this additional responsibility. We want to own the systems that are needed to improve the livelihoods of our people,'" Moore said. "We're really excited as philanthropy also to be of service to that." Moore's nonprofit is among a growing number turning to Arab Gulf nations. Moore said Operation End Starvation is having good conversations with official state donor entities and the philanthropies affiliated with their royal families. The region's leaders have recognized a need "to fund and to bridge the gap" created by aid cuts, according to Hammam bin Nasser bin Juraied, executive director of the Arab Gulf Programme for Development. An 'openness to collaboration' Other aid groups are working more closely with local partners in hopes of reducing overhead costs and increasing their impact. Education Cannot Wait Director Maysa Jalbout, whose nonprofit lost funding from the Trump administration, said they've committed to delivering at least half their funds through local organizations. She's trying to raise $600 million to provide education for 10 million crisis-affected children by 2030. She's actually continued to see support from Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. She found herself speaking more than usual this week with philanthropies and the private sector about their "collective responsibility" to meet the increased demand for aid. That includes new partners to provide meals, water and electricity in schools. "There is this level of, at least on our part, openness to collaboration that comes out of need that maybe we haven't seen before," Jalbout said. Other leaders saw a greater presence from family offices - the private advisers who manage the affluent's wealth. Agnes Dasewicz, chief investment and program officer at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, said she encountered many family office advisers at a breakfast organized by an informal network of women in climate. Their presence underscores what Dasewicz said is a growing number of individuals who want their personal wealth to have world influence but don't want the publicity or responsibility of a major foundation. Family offices can act much more flexibly. But they can be harder to find. "You go talk to them and it turns out they gave out $200 million in grants last year. And you've never heard of them," she said. "But they're out there. And they're very interested really in bettering the livelihoods of people in other countries." An appearance from a Buffett. Even Howard G. Buffett, the eldest son of mega-billionaire investor Warren Buffett and one of three children tasked with giving away their father's fortune after his death, ditched his private family farm for Midtown Manhattan this year. He was motivated by what he saw as lagging support for Ukraine. Howard, who recently became Berkshire Hathaway's new chairman, said Thursday at a forum hosted by the news organization Devex that "you cannot come to this week in New York without making Ukraine one of the highest priorities" of discussion. His foundation, which doubled its spending when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, has given the country $1.4 billion. The World Bank estimates the total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine at almost $588 billion - or nearly three times the country's gross domestic product - over the next decade. From grocery stores to mail delivery, Howard said, there are needs in Ukraine that American companies should invest in. His foundation pledged to finance the rebuilding of a Kharkiv-based publishing house destroyed by Russian missiles. An attack on the maker of children's books and educational materials, he said, is "how you destroy a society." It's "amazing" to Howard that he hasn't been joined by more U.S. foundations focused on democracy. "Ukraine is the fight today that is telling the world whether we have the wherewithal to protect those values," he said. He also hinted at how his foundation might give away some of his father's hundreds of billions of dollars. They'll have to take more risks, he said, while also finding some recipients prepared to absorb $500 million donations at a time. "I couldn't imagine not continuing funding in Ukraine for a lot of years," he added. Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP's philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.
IntegratE expands family planning, care to 1.7m women, 1.18m children. September 25, 2026 No fewer than 1.7 million women have accessed IntegratE's family planning project in Nigeria, just as over 1.18 million children under five benefitted from its primary healthcare services through the Community Pharmacists (CPs) and Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs), the group has said. Data on the project's national impact since its launch in 2017 to its close in 2026 showed that 1,756,170 women accessed family planning services, including 399,766 new acceptors, while 117,775 unintended pregnancies were estimated to have been averted in the process, and 408,943 couple-years of protection were generated. The figures were released yesterday at the IntegratE Project Dissemination Meeting in Lagos by the Society for Family Health (SFH), partnering with the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos State Primary Healthcare Board, and the Gates Foundation. The project, which piloted a three-tier accreditation system in Lagos and Kaduna to expand the role of CPs and PPMVs, also trained 863 CPs and 4,961 PPMVs to provide family planning and primary healthcare services across 11 states. According to the data, commodities delivered nationally included over 4.6 million condoms, 923,558 cycles of oral pills, 321,701 injectables and 80,679 implants. Beyond family planning, the trained providers also attended to over 1.18 million children under five, tested over 923,000 people for malaria and treated 682,601 confirmed malaria cases. Among others, the providers also treated 340,142 cases of diarrhoea and 137,703 cases of pneumonia, while identifying 10,898 presumptive tuberculosis cases, with 1,320 cases confirmed and placed on treatment. Speaking at the project close-out, the Director and Head of Reproductive Health Division, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Samuel Oyeniyi, said the project has demonstrated that CPs and PPMVs could be effectively integrated into the delivery of quality family planning and primary healthcare services. For the Director of Family Health at the Gates Foundation in Nigeria, Rodio Diallo, sustainability was built into the project's grant from the outset, with CPs and PPMVs now embedded in national policy. She called on the government to budget for scaling up training, and on other donors to invest in empowering community-level providers. Also, the Group Director of SFH's Donor Funded Portfolio, Emeka Okafor, who represented SFH Group Managing Director, said that, with appropriate training for provider qualification, plus constant supervision and regulatory support, CPs and PPMVs could safely and effectively expand family planning services. In his keynote address, the PCN Registrar, Ibrahim Ahmed, noted that since many Nigerians live far from public health facilities, the proximity of PPMVs and CPs provides an important lever in the drive toward universal health coverage. -Advertisement- Grab our latest Magazine as we report how legacy meets transformation; "Chris Ehumadu Okeke, SAN: A life in law, a legacy of discipline and service"; Featuring... "The Women Leading Innovation and Influence Across the NBA's Three Sections" For more details about Newswire Law&Events Magazine, kindly reach out to us on 08039218044, 09070309355. Email: [email protected]. You will be glad you did Do you want to be heard, your events covered, your articles published, or need to advertise your products and services on our Blog and Magazine, reach out to us at Newswire Law and Events, you will be glad you did. For more details about our services, please call: 08039218044, 09070309355. Email: [email protected]. Join legalsave initiative Nig, a saving scheme for Lawyer (A Penny Saved is a Penny Gained). For further information call 08033240822.
MTN and Gates Foundation launch $25 million Nigeria Maternal Health Multiplier. September 23, 2026 MTN Group Foundation and the Gates Foundation have announced a strategic partnership to launch the Nigeria Maternal Health Multiplier, a first-of-its-kind initiative in Nigeria to improve maternal health outcomes through an integrated digital ecosystem that connects women, frontline health workers, and primary health care facilities. By 2030, the initiative aims to help 500,000 women access trusted health guidance, equip 5,000 frontline health workers with tools to identify complications from pregnancy and childbirth early, and enable 500 health facilities to deliver more consistent, higher-quality maternal health care. The platform is designed to complement Nigeria's ongoing maternal and child health reforms. It will expand equitable access to high-quality maternal health care through three components: AI-enabled, phone-based decision support tools for both frontline health workers and mothers, affordable smartphones and mobile data, and improved connectivity at health care facilities. By strengthening access to timely information, care, and follow-up services, the initiative aims to help more women receive quality maternal health care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period, particularly in underserved communities. The world has made real progress on maternal survival, cutting deaths by 40% since 2000. But that progress has stalled, and where a woman lives still shapes whether she survives childbirth. In sub-Saharan Africa, that risk is roughly 250 times higher than in Western Europe. While Nigeria has made real progress in reducing maternal deaths over the past decade, a large burden remains to be addressed: the country accounts for nearly 30% of all maternal deaths worldwide. Many of these deaths are preventable, but with only 59% of women completing four or more antenatal care visits, warning signs often go undetected until it's too late. Both the scale of that challenge and the urgency it represents are why Nigeria was selected as the first market for implementation of the Maternal Health Multiplier. The Maternal Health Multiplier is designed to be affordable, reliable, and consistent, and it builds on Nigeria's flagship Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative (MAMII), which is being deployed by the Federal Ministry of Health under its Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp). It will combine: * Connected devices that give frontline health workers access to real-time guidance, helping them catch warning signs and respond with confidence * Affordable phone and data access for pregnant women, so cost isn't a barrier to using the digital health tools * Improved connectivity at primary health care facilities, so care doesn't depend on where a woman happens to live Dr. Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Nigeria, said: "For too long, the biggest barrier to improving service delivery in Nigeria, whether in health, agriculture, or education, has not been a lack of innovations, but a lack of focus on the foundational systems necessary to drive adoption. Partnerships like this reflect the kind of collaboration we want to see more of in Nigeria - one that puts the country's digital transformation to work for the people who need it most." Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Nigeria, said: "Strengthening primary healthcare and empowering the frontline health workers who deliver it are core to our health sector reforms. Partnerships that work with our existing health systems, rather than around them, are exactly what's needed to reach mothers who are still falling through the cracks. We welcome this collaboration and look forward to it strengthening the work already underway." The four-year partnership was announced at Semafor's Next 3 Billion event, on the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. It begins with an initial investment of approximately $25 million between 2026 and 2030, including direct and in-kind contributions from the Gates Foundation and MTN. This anchor investment is intended to catalyze additional funding and support future expansion into other markets over time. Ralph Mupita, President and CEO of MTN Group, said: "The future of maternal health depends on ensuring that every mother, regardless of where she lives, can access the support she needs to make informed decisions throughout her journey. Technology is creating unprecedented opportunities to make healthcare more personalised, predictive and accessible. As artificial intelligence evolves, we can put trusted, locally relevant health insights directly into the hands of mothers and healthcare professionals, tailored to their unique needs and languages. Starting in Nigeria, our ambition is to demonstrate a scalable model for improving maternal and child health outcomes across Africa." Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation, said: "AI has enormous potential to improve health, but only if its benefits reach the people who stand to gain the most. Left to the market alone, potential tends to benefit those who can already afford it, not the people who need it most. That's where philanthropy has a role to play: not as a substitute for investment, but as a catalyst for it. Programs like the Maternal Health Multiplier are creating AI tools for and putting them into the hands of Nigerian mothers and frontline health workers, helping keep moms and their babies healthy."
MTN, Gates launch AI platform to reach 500,000 Nigerian mothers. By Chioma Obinna MTN Group Foundation and the Gates Foundation on Tuesday launched an AI-enabled maternal health platform targeting 500,000 Nigerian women by 20 Africa ThisDay Reporter Sep 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM **Lead** In a landmark partnership, MTN Group Foundation and the Gates Foundation have unveiled an AI-enabled maternal health platform aimed at reaching 500,000 Nigerian mothers by the year 2030. This initiative will not only enhance maternal health outcomes but also empower healthcare workers with digital tools to better detect complications during pregnancy and childbirth. **Background** Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates globally, primarily due to inadequate healthcare infrastructure and a lack of access to essential services for expectant mothers. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 58,000 women die each year in Nigeria from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Initiatives like the one launched by MTN and the Gates Foundation are critical in addressing these long-standing issues, leveraging technology to bridge the gaps in maternal healthcare. **Key Developments** On Tuesday, MTN Group Foundation and the Gates Foundation officially launched the Nigeria Maternal Health Multiplier, committing to significantly improve maternal healthcare accessibility in the country. This innovative platform will target 500,000 Nigerian women, aiming to provide them with necessary health resources and information throughout their pregnancy journey. In addition to direct support for mothers, the initiative plans to equip 5,000 frontline health workers with digital tools designed to detect early pregnancy and childbirth complications. Furthermore, it will enhance the capabilities of 500 primary healthcare facilities, ensuring they offer higher-quality maternal health services. The collaboration exemplifies a broader commitment to utilizing technology for social good, with both foundations prioritizing the health of mothers as vital to improving community health overall. **Regional Impact / Significance** The launch of this maternal health platform could have profound implications for Nigeria's healthcare system, particularly for impoverished communities where access to medical facilities is severely limited. By empowering both mothers and healthcare workers through technology, this initiative aims to reduce maternal mortality rates and improve overall health outcomes in the region. Success in this project could serve as a model for other African countries facing similar healthcare challenges, illustrating the potential of digital innovation in transforming health service delivery. **Outlook** Looking ahead, the Nigeria Maternal Health Multiplier is expected to roll out its services in phases, with initial pilot programs possibly commencing in rural areas where the need is most acute. Stakeholders will closely monitor the impact of the initiative on both maternal health and community engagement in health programs. As reactions from local health authorities and communities unfold, the results of this partnership may inform future collaborations in healthcare innovation across the continent, further shaping the landscape of maternal care in Africa. This news was sourced by its AI agent and verified through multiple sources. #maternal health #Gates Foundation
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About Gates Foundation
Industries
Social Impact
Healthcare
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
2000
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