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In 2015, French Gates founded Pivotal Ventures as a separate, independent organization to identify and implement innovative solutions to problems affecting U.S. women and families. [27] On May 13, 2024, French Gates resigned as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to be effective June 7. [28] [29]
The Gates Foundation [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, [6] [7] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Melinda French Gates attends the 2024 Albie Awards presented by the Clooney Foundation for Justice at the New York Public Library on Sept. 26, 2024, in New York City.
Melinda French Gates Melinda French-Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, posted a lengthy statement on Threads grieving Harris' loss while calling for action in state legislatures and community ...
Melinda French Gates revealed she plans to vote for President Biden over former President Trump in November, pointing to the former president’s past remarks on women and reproductive rights.
In 1987, at a trade fair in New York, Gates met Melinda French, a recent graduate of Duke University who had begun working at Microsoft around four months earlier. [186] Gates and French became engaged in 1993 after dating for six years. [ 187 ]
French Gates and Gates divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage. When she resigned from the foundation, she left with $12.5 billion for her philanthropy efforts, she said . According to Forbes ...
Gates this year left the charitable foundation she co-founded with her former husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with $12.5 billion for her own charity work. ... Philanthropist Melinda French ...