Pro-Palestinian protesters set up tents on The Quad at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in May 2024.
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When university administrators accede to donor demands, they punish students for enacting the core values and principles their institutions profess.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were two of the year’s biggest three donors.
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As giving receded to pre-pandemic levels, most of these gifts were designated for foundations, higher education, hospitals and medical research.
Women are severely underrepresented in editorial leadership and in news coverage.
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The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, gave their foundation $15 billion right before their divorce became final.
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Three scholars weigh in regarding the priorities of these wealthy American donors, who gave less to social service and racial justice groups than in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Martin Luther King Jr. is among the many big thinkers to question the importance of philanthropy.
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Big donors need to balance their ambitions to address injustices with the constraints on power that democracy requires.
Small-scale farmers use oxen to plough their farm in Kericho County, Kenya.
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Research questions the idea that getting commercial seeds and fertilisers to smallholder farmers will double yields and incomes.
Gene therapy uses our genomic makeup to treat or prevent disease.
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New payment models may mean more of the people who need these treatments can get them.
CEO Warren Buffett was surrounded by press and fans when he arrived at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, in May 2019.
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The investor has already given half of his $100 billion fortune to charity and he has pledged to disburse nearly all of the rest.
French Gates (left), shown here with Oprah Winfrey, makes gender equity a top priority in her giving.
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Winners of a new gender-equity contest do an array of work that includes helping caregivers and trying to reduce intimate-partner violence.
A ground crew member transports the COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX at Bole international airport in Addis Ababa.
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The inefficient vaccine allocation rules currently in place must be replaced by new cooperative institutional structures and more concrete steps by the Group of Twenty (G20) countries.
The proposed database would focus on income.
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Under a proposal from a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation initiative, the federal government would collect data on student economic outcomes.
Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce on 3 May, 2021.
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Our preoccupation with the personal relationships of big donors is overshadowing charitable efforts.
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Women’s philanthropy, which has always been very important, has remained invisible for a long time. There are many reasons for this paradox.
At the end of 2020, India applied to the WTO for a temporary suspension of intellectual property rights related to Covid-19.
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Licensing agreements between pharmaceutical companies and the Medicines Patent Pool, in cooperation with the WHO, could accelerate access to doses for the poorest countries.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reacted more quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic began than most other foundations.
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Two scholars of philanthropy and geography who reviewed the numbers see cause for concern about the agility and priorities of grantmakers during a crisis.
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The anti-vaccine movement is the product of a structural problem, reflecting a lack of trust in the existing global vaccine governance.
Boxing up humanitarian aid at UNICEF’s vast warehouse in October of 2020.
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Side agreements signed by some wealthy nations threaten to undercut global efforts to ensure a fairly equitable worldwide vaccination effort.
Women have a huge amount to contribute to science and research, if the right support systems are in place.
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Reasons why women’s voices are ignored in science reporting range from socio-cultural influences that inform gender norms, to perceptions of leadership and political power structures.
Journalists need to be sensitised to the need for gender representation in media content.
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The media’s muting of women’s voices when reporting the COVID-19 crisis keeps women on the margins.
Dr. Jonas Salk, left, developed the first effective polio vaccine.
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A tragic error showed how complicated it can be to distribute vaccines on a mass scale.