Pivotal Ventures focuses on advancing social progress in the United States through investment and incubation. The company identifies areas where progress has stalled, such as gender equality and aging, and partners with organizations to create momentum in these fields. Pivotal Ventures not only provides funding but also offers mentorship and resources to help initiatives grow. This approach allows them to support non-profits and social enterprises effectively. Unlike many traditional investment firms, Pivotal Ventures combines financial backing with hands-on support, aiming to create sustainable solutions that benefit both society and investors. The goal is to remove barriers to social advancement and foster meaningful change.

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Melinda French Gates has introduced a new white paper that discusses the barriers that women, especially in Africa, face in accessing capital and how philanthropic, public and private sectors can come together to close gender financing gaps.

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School-Based Health Alliance, a nonprofit which provides health care services in schools that serve students from low-income families, received a total investment of $23M from MacKenzie Scott and Pivotal Ventures, to invest initiatives in Houston, Atlanta, Chicago and Miami.

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Melinda French Gates. (Jason Bell Photo). Melinda French Gates is giving $150 million to a variety of groups to help remove barriers for women in the workplace, including in the tech industry and the rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence.The announcement Wednesday from French Gates’ Seattle-based Pivotal Ventures is part of the billionaire philanthropist’s prior commitment to grant $1 billion to programs and people working on women’s and family issues.In a video on the Pivotal website, French Gates said that while women’s representation in the workforce has increased substantially over the last few years, significant barriers — such as lack of caregiving and ongoing discrimination — continue to hold women back from truly thriving at work.“As it stands, the modern workplace simply wasn’t built with women in mind. And it’s time for that to change,” she said.AI and tech innovation are a key focus of the change that French Gates believes is needed.According to Axios, $45 million will go toward increasing women’s representation in AI and tech through groups such as the Center for Inclusive Computing, Rewriting the Code and Break Through Tech AI.“AI will continue to have a growing and disproportionate impact on society, and we want to build the pipeline of women leaders shaping AI and ensure companies deploying AI are maximizing its benefits and minimizing its harms,” Dr. Renee Wittemyer, vice president of Program Strategy for Pivotal, said in an interview published on the website.Wittemyer added that there are opportunities to leverage AI to remove workplace barriers for women as it is integrated into HR systems and other practices.The Aspen Institute will get $75 million to establish a workplace innovation council, according to Axios, and other groups will share $30 million, including Lift Our Voices, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, National Partnership for Women  Families, Responsible Innovation Labs, and Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.Here’s the transcript of Gates’ video announcement on Wednesday:. “Women’s representation in the workforce has increased substantially over the last few years

Tech Is Major Focus As Melinda French Gates Gives $150M To Increase Workplace Equality For Women

Get ready for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, our signature event for startups of all stages, taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30. This year, we’re expecting a massive turnout of 10,000+ leaders from the startup, VC, and broader tech community.As part of the program, we’re thrilled to unveil the complete agenda for the Disrupt Stage, with some of the big names in tech that have dominated — and continue to dominate — the news cycle this year. Hear from the CEOs of General Motors, Databricks, and Wiz; investors Vinod Khosla, Ashton Kutcher, Tony Fadell, and Erin and Sara Foster; and former NFL player and founder Colin Kaepernick. The Disrupt Stage is the culmination of months of hard work and is just one of six stages featured at this year’s jam-packed event.No TechCrunch Disrupt is complete without the return of the legendary Startup Battlefield. This year’s hand-picked Startup Battlefield 200 will not disappoint. Head to the Expo Hall for the finest display of early-stage startup innovation you’ll ever find under one roof

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Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif Statement on the International Day of Women in DiplomacyNEW YORK, June 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As a woman, as a lawyer, as a mom, as a civil servant, and as a member of #WeTheWomen, I celebrate the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, with the hope that our commemoration turns into collective action not only by women, but also by men. Women bring vision, leadership and compassion in all domains of life. We are trailblazers, rebels with a cause and peacebuilders. We help shape a world order based on universal human rights and values. We the Women was launched along the margins of the 2023 SDG Summit by the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed and H.E

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Melinda French Gates, right, and Bill  Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman. (Gates Foundation Photo)Melinda French Gates is signing off after nearly 25 years at the Bill  Melinda Gates Foundation, telling colleagues and alumni of the Seattle-based philanthropic organization in a letter Friday of the gratitude she feels for their work.French Gates, who announced in May that she would be resigning from the foundation, shared a letter (below) on social media in which she said she was feeling a complicated mix of emotions — from sadness over the goodbye to pride and excitement over what’s been accomplished and what’s next.“Most people never in their lives get to work with a group of people like this one — as talented, as brilliant, as caring, as visionary, as thoughtful, as driven,” French Gates wrote. “So, I recognize what a gift it is that, for the past twenty-five years, you’ve been such an enormous part of my life.”. French Gates started the foundation in 2000 with then-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The organization grew to become the world’s largest charitable foundation and a powerhouse in global health. The foundation employs more than 2,000 people and has an endowment of more than $75 billion.After 27 years of marriage, the couple announced their decision to divorce in May 2021

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Melinda French Gates. (MasterClass Photo)Melinda French Gates announced on Tuesday that she is planning to grant $1 billion over the next two years to programs and people working on women’s and family issues. She highlighted the need to fund reproductive initiatives in the U.S. following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision that gutted abortion protections. “While I have long focused on improving contraceptive access overseas, in the post-Dobbs era, I now feel compelled to support reproductive rights here at home,” French Gates said in an op-ed in The New York Times. “For too long, a lack of money has forced organizations fighting for women’s rights into a defensive posture while the enemies of progress play offense

Melinda French Gates Announces Plans For $1B In Funding For Reproductive And Other Women’S Issues

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Melinda French Gates at a 2019 event promoting her book “The Moment of Lift.” (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Melinda French Gates is walking away from a 2,000-employee philanthropy with assets totaling more than $75 billion. But some say her departure from the Gates Foundation, announced Monday, could unlock something for the 59-year-old who is passionate about supporting women, families and minorities.“She’s going to be a bigger deal now that she’s untethered from this big institution,” said David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy. “She’ll be one of the biggest philanthropists in the world.”French Gates will leave the organization with $12.5 billion for her own initiatives as part of her divorce agreement with Bill Gates. And while she’ll have less cash at her disposal outside the Gates Foundation, it will be hers to deploy as she chooses.When news broke in 2021 about French Gates’ divorce, observers said she had “transformational potential” to tackle equity challenges for women and minorities, and that while she’d been speaking quietly about initiatives that mattered to her, now she could “get loud.”But so far, at least, she hasn’t cranked the volume up.French Gates has historically focused her philanthropic energy on issues related to women and families both at the foundation and through a separately managed company called Pivotal Ventures, which she launched in 2015. “She’s going to be a bigger deal now that she’s untethered from this big institution.”– David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside PhilanthropyAt the foundation, she pushed for contraception access and through Pivotal became a champion for getting more women into public office. She has written fervently about the need for income equity for women and provided funding for female and diverse investment firms.But Pivotal has shared little information about the size of the checks it has been writing, and its impacts are unclear.Perhaps that will change

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