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City schools hail 'historic moment'
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 6 days ago
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Two representatives of the Seattle-based foundation were on hand to observe the vote. In all, the foundation today is expected to announce four grants for teacher-effectiveness initiatives nationwide. Pittsburgh's proposal was jointly developed by the...
Tags: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, Mr. Roosevelt, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Mr. Tarka, historic moment, Melinda Gates Foundation, Pittsburgh, Charter school, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Education
Rotary helps lead fight to vanquish polio worldwide for good
Lagos :: Nigeria | 12 days ago
Credibility There are many families in our country that have a family member who has been affected by the crippling disease of polio. Polio survivors tell their stories with a great deal of passion of the pain and lifestyle changes that polio has inflicted on them.
Tags: Roseburg Rotary Club Foundation, Rotary Roseburg Noon Club, Roseburg Rotary Foundation, Rotary International, rotary clubs, Melinda Gates Foundation, eradication polio, Nigeria, Lagos, Poliomyelitis eradication, Rotary Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio vaccine, Poliomyelitis, Public health, Vaccines
Shah to be named head of USAID
Washington :: DC :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics Rajiv Shah, is going to be named to head the Agency for International Development, sources familiar with the choice said Tuesday. Shah, 36, is a medical doctor who worked for the Bill...
Tags: Dr. Rajiv Shah, Barack Obama, Dr Raj Shah, Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S, USAID, Mr. Shah, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, international developing, US Department of Agriculture
Bill And Melinda Gates: Benefits Of Global Health Aid
Managua :: Nicaragua | 29 days ago
Credibility The U.S. spends $8 billion a year on global health — only a fraction of 1 percent of its total budget, but five times more than what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spends. "So we often work together," Bill Gates tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "Only...
Tags: Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates Have, Bill & Melinda Gates, U.S, Bill Gates
In Des Moines, Gates chides critics, defends biotech crops
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility In what was billed as his first major speech on agriculture, Gates chided critics who he said are “instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity” and ignore the challenges to food production posed by climate change. “They act as if there is no emergency,...
Tags: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates Foundation, billed gates, Mr Gates, Des Moines, Iowa, Norman Borlaug, help small
Gates to urge renewal of Green Revolution
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Transforming how people use computers may have been the easy part...Over the past three years, his foundation has committed $1.4 billion toward agricultural development, funding projects ranging from breeding higher-yielding plants to helping African...
Tags: food production, Bill Gates, gates foundations, Melinda Gates Foundation, sub-Saharan Africa, world food, Empower Africa, Des Moines, food prize, prize symposium
Gates Foundation explores making loans, investments
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Forced to do more with less, Chief Financial Officer Alexander Friedman came up with an unusual plan to use $400 million — not to give away but to lend and invest...The financial crisis prompted some new thinking inside the world's largest private charity.
$50M sought from Gates
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Pittsburgh Public Schools has asked the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to contribute $50 million toward an $85 million-plus campaign to produce better teachers. The effort would include pay-for-performance, extra money for teachers taking on high-need...
DPS apt to win Gates grant
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Winners of the top-level grants are districts in Hillsborough County, Fla.; Memphis, Tenn.; Omaha; and Pittsburgh; as well as a group of Los Angeles charter schools. Five other districts, including Denver, will receive the foundation's accelerator grants.
Tags: Los Angeles, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Omaha, Fla, Melinda Gates Foundation, Hillsborough County, angeles charter, charter schools, Tenn, Memphis
City schools selected for Gates Foundation grant
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility The Pittsburgh Public Schools has been selected to be one of a handful of districts to participate in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $500 million initiative to improve teacher effectiveness. Superintendent Mark Roosevelt said he got the word...
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