The document discusses the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including its history, goals, guiding principles, and impact. It was originally founded in 1994 as the William H. Gates Foundation and focuses on global health and development, as well as educational issues in the US. The Foundation aims to end diseases like polio and malaria, increase crop yields in developing countries, and improve education systems. It is guided by principles like taking risks, advocating for focus areas, and treating grantees and beneficiaries with respect.

2. Their approach to giving
• These steps are to accomplish their goals for
as many people as possible

3. How they contribute
• Extreme poverty and poor health in
developing countries
• Failures of America’s education system
• New techniques to help farmers in developing
countries grow more food and earn more
money
• New tools to prevent and treat deadly
diseases

4. •
Guiding Principles and passions of the
Guiding Principle #1: This is a family foundation driven by the interests
Gates family.
Guiding Principle #2: Philanthropy plays an important but limited role.
• Guiding Principle #3: Science and technology have great potential to improve lives around
the world.
• Guiding Principle #4: We are funders and shapers—we rely on others to act and implement.
• Guiding Principle #5: Our focus is clear—and limited—and prioritizes some of the most
neglected issues.
• Guiding Principle #6: We identify a specific point of intervention and apply our efforts
against a theory of change.
• Guiding Principle #7: We take risks, make big bets, and move with urgency. We are in it for
the long haul.
• Guiding Principle #8: We advocate—vigorously but responsibly—in our areas of focus.
• Guiding Principle #9: We must be humble and mindful in our actions and words. We seek
and heed the counsel of outside voices.
• Guiding Principle #10: We treat our grantees as valued partners, and we treat the ultimate
beneficiaries of our work with respect.
• Guiding Principle #11: Delivering results with the resources we have been given is of the
utmost importance—and we seek and share information about those results.
• Guiding Principle #12: We demand ethical behavior of ourselves.
• Guiding Principle #13: We treat each other as valued colleagues.
• Guiding Principle #14: Meeting our mission—to increase opportunity and equity for those
most in need—requires great stewardship of the money we have available.
• Guiding Principle #15: We leave room for growth and change.

5. History
• 1994 - the foundation was formed as the William H.
Gates Foundation with an initial stock gift of US$94
million.
• 1999 - the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
• 2000 - After a merger with the Gates Learning
Foundation , Gates gave an additional US$126 million
• 2006, Gates announced his plans to transition out of a
day-to-day role with Microsoft, effective July 31,
2008,[10] to allow him to devote more time to working
with the foundation

6. Impact/ Prospective impacts
• Ending polio
• Vaccines for malaria to prevent widespread
number of deaths
• Increasing technology for increased rice
production
• Improving the education

7. Team Names
• Jonathan Ng
• Jia Zhi
• Benedict Chui
• Kieren Kong

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