Gates Foundation shrinks report, chronic(les) failure to communicate
As noted yesterday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released its annual report for 2010 and, once again, promised to do a better job of communicating and improving on transparency. Upon further...
View ArticleGates Foundation calls 2,000 of its closest friends
Jeff Raikes and other senior leaders at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today engaged in a conference call with 2,000 or so grant recipients in order to improve their ability to communicate....
View ArticlePoint of clarification on 5 key points from Gates Foundation 2012 report
Last week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation release its annual report and I did a quick analysis of it, which I dubbed the Top Five Points. I selected five things from the annual report which...
View ArticleGates Foundation CEO describes how measuring polio is key to ending it
Bill Gates issued his annual letter for 2013 today, in which he makes the case for measurement as a critical tool to fighting poverty, disease and inequality. The call for better measurement and...
View ArticleGates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes to step down
Raikes has presided over rapid growth and a major internal re-organization at the Gates Foundation, including efforts made to improve the philanthropy's relationship with grantees, its reputed...
View ArticleA chat with outgoing chief of the Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's biggest philanthropy, but big doesn't by itself translate into best. Making the Gates Foundation better has been Jeff Raikes' job for the last...
View ArticleMicrosoft era ending at Gates Foundation – CEO Jeff Raikes steps down
Today is the last day for former Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes to serve as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Raikes took over the job from Patty Stonesifer, the first CEO for the Gates...
View ArticleNew Gates Foundation chief to seek revolutionary simplicity
The world’s biggest philanthropy is entering a new era, a third phase of sorts, but is hardly settling into a comfortable routine of funding the same old things or losing its upstart mindset. Susan...
View ArticleGates Foundation does poor job communicating with outside world
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does many extraordinary things well, but public transparency and communicating with outsiders are not among them. That’s what the world’s biggest philanthropy...
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