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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]
Organization leaders say the change honors the legacy of Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Bill Gates Sr. 2025 marks the largest budget year for the foundation's history.
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.
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]
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world's largest philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years.
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 ...
In 2019, she pledged over ten years to expand women's power and influence. Earlier this month, French Gates announced she would step down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and vowed to focus on women and families. As a part of leaving the Gates Foundation, French Gates received $12 billion from Bill Gates for her philanthropy going forward.