Search results for ‘Bill and Melinda Gates’


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    David E. Reese Family Foundation

    David E. Reese Family Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation in Paradise Valley, Arizona. 1 Founder David Reese led several banking institutions in New York, Ohio, and Arizona
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    NewsMatch

    NewsMatch encourages fundraising for local media outlets by providing matching donations from a fund pool created by large nonprofit donors. The organization also provided fundraising development training. It is said to be “the largest collaborative fundraiser for nonprofit news in the U.S.”
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    Higherlife Foundation

    The Higherlife Foundation is an African-based private grantmaking foundation that prioritizes funding educational projects and scholarships for African children, including the Capernaum scholarship, which focuses on orphaned and disadvantaged children in Zimbabwe, and the Joshua Nkomo scholarship, which focuses on students that have performed exceptionally well on examinations.
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    British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

    The British Broadcasting Corporation is a state-funded media organization formed in 1927 under a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom. The organization receives most of its money through television license fees, which every UK household must pay if that household watches or records live television, or if it uses the
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    National Public Education Support Fund (NPESF)

    National Public Education Support Fund (NPESF) is a grantmaking organization which funds left-of-center education policy advocacy and activist networking initiatives. The fund supports designing government school programs and allocating taxpayer dollars based on race, ethnicity, and other minority status, and pushes for an education system designed to generate equality of
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    Parents United for Responsible Education

    Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) (not to be confused with People United in Responsible Education (PURE)) was a left-of-center nonprofit advocating for education policies. PURE appears defunct and its former website no longer functions. The group’s Facebook page stopped updating in October 2018.
  • For-profit

    Reproductive Health Investors Alliance (Rhia Ventures)

    Reproductive Health Investors Alliance (RHIA), also known as Rhia Ventures, 1 is an investment firm that prioritizes left-leaning reproductive health initiatives, including maternal health, contraception availability, and abortion access, with a focus
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    Educators for Excellence

    Educators for Excellence is a nonprofit organization that advocates for paying teachers a higher salary and increased spending on education 1 while opposing seniority-based layoffs.
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    Bayes Impact

    Bayes Impact is a nonprofit tech firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm designs applications which it bills as utility-like “public services,” claiming they will improve quality of life and bring society closer to establishing equality of outcome. While Bayes Impact does not explicitly state its political affiliations, it
  • For-profit

    Microsoft

    Microsoft is an international technology corporation. It was launched in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1985, it announced the first version of Windows, a graphical user interface for its MS-DOS operating system (OS). Since the mid-2010s, Microsoft has engaged in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI),
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    Parent Coalition for Student Privacy (PCSP)

    The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy (PCSP) is an activist project which campaigns against the practice of public school systems and state education departments selling or otherwise disclosing the personal information of students to corporations and other outside organizations. Founded in 2014, the PCSP also advocates for more restrained collection
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    Save the Children USA

    Save the Children USA, also known as Save the Children Federation, Inc., is a humanitarian organization that provides health and education programs to support at-risk children and their families. 1 Save
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    African Gender Initiative (AGI)

    The African Gender Initiative (AGI) is a grantmaking project of the African Philanthropy Forum founded in 2022 with the goal of raising $50 million over ten years to support the Africa-focused efforts of the Co-Impact Gender Fund, an international $1 billion initiative that plans to fund women’s-interest groups and
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    Norwegian Refugee Council

    The Norwegian Refugee Council is a humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in 1946. The organization prioritizes assisting refugees across the world and stated that it helped just under 10 million people across 35 countries in 2021. 1 It
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    Delta Philanthropies

    Delta Philanthropies is a Zimbabwe-based nonprofit organization that provides social services, takes a liberal stance on gender issues, and advocates in favor of environmentalism. Delta Philanthropies was founded by Zimbabwean telecommunications billionaire Strive Masiyiwa and has received grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller
  • Non-profit

    Great Minds (Common Core, Inc.)

    Great Minds is a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 as “Common Core, Inc.” The organization offers educational curriculum aligned with the common core state-level education standards through a for-profit company controlled by the nonprofit organization. The group receives significant funding through contracts with state education departments and federal agencies and
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    Glenn Singleton

    Glenn Singleton is a consultant and author who provides race-focused education, training, and consulting for schools, colleges and universities, government entities, and corporate clients in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Singleton’s work is based on the premise that the gap between Black student performance and white student
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    Transparent Elections North Carolina (TENC)

    Transparent Elections North Carolina (TENC) is an activist organization which claims that state authorities have not taken sufficient action to guarantee the security and integrity of elections, especially during the 2020 cycle. TENC recruits volunteers to serve as polling place observers, report alleged improprieties in election administration and vote counting,
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    National Student Clearinghouse

    National Student Clearinghouse collects and sells student data on the majority of high school and college students in the United States. The organization provides educational reporting, enrollment and degree verification, and research services to colleges and universities throughout North America. The organization also provides data on student enrollment to left-of-center
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    Institute for Strategic Dialogue

    The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is a think tank specializing in combatting alleged online disinformation. The ISD has worked with numerous prominent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments, as well as major technology companies, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Spotify, and Amazon.