Gates Foundation
Definition
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, commonly referred to as the Gates Foundation, is a prominent philanthropic organization founded in 2000 by Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft) and his then-wife Melinda French Gates, with a focus on global health, education, poverty reduction, and agricultural development.
One of the world's largest private foundations, it has committed over $70 billion to initiatives tackling diseases like malaria and polio, vaccine distribution, and equitable access to technology.
Examples
The Gates Foundation just dropped another billion on mosquito nets, because apparently, even bugs need a safety net these days.
Thanks to the Gates Foundation, kids in rural villages are coding apps before they master hopscotch.
The Gates Foundation's vaccine push was so epic, it made pandemics wish they had updated their antivirus software.
Bill stepped away from Windows glitches, but via the Gates Foundation, he's still patching the world's biggest bugs.