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Join the Gates Notes community to get regular updates from Bill on key topics like global health and climate change, to access exclusive content, comment on stories, participate in giveaways, and more. Melinda Gates, the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has written a new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes The World.

Published this week, the book. Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, philanthropist, New York Times bestselling author and gender equality advocate has been recommending books, movies, television shows Author: Frances Bridges.

At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, you’ll find stories of work that is improving lives, from Seattle to South Africa. Plan a visit 5th Ave N. You must enable JavaScript in order to use this site. Bill and Melinda Gates share a list of books they recommended to the crowd at TED Melinda and I attended TED this year, and the organizers asked us to suggest a few books.

Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9,Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to ion: Lakeside School, Harvard University.

Melinda Gates. Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, Melinda Gates has dedicated her life to achieving transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of families, communities, and societies.

Core to her work is empowering women and girls to help them realize their full potential. "Melinda Gates's book is a lesson in listening. A powerful, poignant, and ultimately humble call to arms." ― Tara Westover, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Educated A debut from Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.

“How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings – and especially for Cited by: 3. Melinda Gates' first book, "The Moment of Lift," is coming out on April In a blog post, her husband, Bill Gates, praised it as a "terrific read"—even if he hadn't married the : Sissi Cao. In mid a rumour circulated that Bill and Melinda Gates were creating a website that would offer textbooks at zero cost to college students.

While they weren’t personally creating a website they helped fund a Rice University initiative, calledwhich offers a constantly expanding list of completely free college textbooks.

In her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, Melinda Gates shares her experiences building the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, especially the time she spent on the. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts also came to address global poverty and health issues.

Ina friend of Bill's, wealthy investor Warren Buffett. The first book from Melinda French Gates, available in the U.S. on Ap For the last twenty years, Melinda French Gates has been on a : Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda.

Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has been recognized by Forbes magazine as the "most powerful woman in philanthropy." When: p.m., Wednesday. 5th Ave N. Seattle, WA () ext Open: Tues - Sat 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission: Free. Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Follow Most of my conversations these days are about COVID and how we can stem the tide, but I’m also often asked about what I.

Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation attends a conversation at the New Economy Forum in Beijing, China, Novem Jason Lee | Reuters If you're looking for a way to stay entertained in the sun while social distancing this Memorial Day weekend, and on into the summer, "you can't beat reading a book," says Bill Gates.

Gates Notes LLC. Every December, Bill Gates likes to take stock of the past year’s accomplishments—including all the books he’s read. In keeping with this holiday tradition, the world’s. Melinda Gates receives gifts from students during her visit to Sudha Varghese’s Prerna School for girls of Dalit communities in Danapur, India, on Ap (Prashant Panjiar / Bill.

And for a long time, even her work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she shares the title of co-chair with her husband, wasn’t exactly equal, with Mr.

Gates. Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her husband, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates—cofounded the charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It has three divisions: global health, global development, and community and education causes in the U.S.

Learn more about her life and career. In Augusta rumor began circulating on social media that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates had “made a website” that provides free textbooks to college students.