{"id":24291,"date":"2025-05-08T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/melinda-french-gates-reflects-on-her-work-with-foundation-as-bill-gates-announces-2045-closure\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:45:15","slug":"melinda-french-gates-reflects-on-her-work-with-foundation-as-bill-gates-announces-2045-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/melinda-french-gates-reflects-on-her-work-with-foundation-as-bill-gates-announces-2045-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda French Gates reflects on her work with foundation as Bill Gates announces 2045 closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Melinda French Gates entered some of the most powerful circles while leading the foundation she co-founded with her ex-husband, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-gates-giving-away-virtually-all-wealth-2045\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Bill Gates<\/a><\/span>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/ideas\/articles\/next-chapter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> on Thursday that it will close &#8220;permanently&#8221; at the end of 2045.<\/p>\n<p>French Gates, who studied computer science and worked at Microsoft, the company Gates created, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-interview-next-chapter-foundation-philanthropy\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">exited the Gates Foundation<\/a><\/span> last year to pursue philanthropy and investment through her own organization, Pivotal Ventures, which she started in 2015. The foundation changed its name from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation after her departure, which she previously <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-interview-next-chapter-foundation-philanthropy\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">described an &#8220;evolution&#8221;<\/a><\/span> rather than a sudden move.  <\/p>\n<p>French Gates offered written responses to The Associated Press&#8217; questions about the foundation&#8217;s 25th anniversary and its decision to close in 20 years. She said the former couple had always intended to spend down their resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, though,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;the timeline was Bill&#8217;s decision to make with the board of trustees.&#8221; Bill Gates says he will give away virtually all of his wealth over the next 20 years through the foundation, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-gates-interview-cbs-mornings-5-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">telling &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221;<\/a><\/span> that he hopes to live long enough to see some of the positive ways it has helped communities.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation has focused on tackling global challenges, including poverty, disease and inequity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following responses from French Gates have been edited for length.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What do you hope the foundation&#8217;s legacy will be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: To me, the greatest measure of success would be if long after the foundation closed, someone, somewhere, was living a life that looked different because we existed. We talked a lot there about unlocking virtuous cycles. I like to think that right now, the foundation&#8217;s work is contributing to a child getting a vaccine or a woman opening her first bank account \u2014 and that decades from now, their families and communities are going to continue to look different, because of what that child and that woman unlocked for the people around them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What specific areas did you influence at the foundation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: I was excited for us to launch the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/career-politics\/a64491135\/melinda-french-gates-jacinda-ardern-elle-women-of-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giving Pledge<\/a>\u00a0because I believe that the most responsible thing to do with great wealth is give it away \u2014 and that you have an obligation to society to give it away as effectively as possible. I think it&#8217;s important for people in that position to set norms around giving generously and to learn as much as possible from each other about how to be effective in their philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>(As for gender), for too long, global health and development efforts treated women and girls as secondary \u2014 if they were considered at all. Data wasn&#8217;t collected on their experiences. Their specific health needs were often ignored.<\/p>\n<p>There were so many questions that needed to be asked: What is the cost of all the unpaid labor women do at home? Will mobile banking make a difference if women don&#8217;t have equal access to cellphones? Why are so many infectious diseases especially dangerous for women?<\/p>\n<p>We opened a gender equality division, but not just that \u2014 we made gender equality a priority across all of our work. And we put a lot of resources into expanding access to contraception, starting with a big commitment we made in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Why did you invest in opening more offices in other countries?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: When you&#8217;re doing this kind of work, it doesn&#8217;t take long to see that solutions that seem great on paper may not work in reality. We funded community toilets in India that people \u2014 especially women \u2014wouldn&#8217;t use because they were dangerous to go to at night. We funded vaccines in Vietnam that had to be kept cold, but came in packaging that didn&#8217;t fit into the small refrigerators most people had there. We funded a simple pump to help East African farmers irrigate their land, but women \u2014 who account for half of all smallholder farmers \u2014 wouldn&#8217;t buy it, because they didn&#8217;t want to be seen swaying their hips in the way the pump required.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to learn about the cultural norms and logistical issues that determine whether a solution is feasible \u2014 and they all boil down to engaging people with local knowledge and lived experience, and trusting what they tell you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Some foundation goals \u2014 like eradicating polio and controlling malaria \u2014 depend on the generosity of other countries and donors. How can you accomplish those goals given recent cuts to international aid?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: It&#8217;s easy for people to forget \u2014 or maybe they didn&#8217;t ever know \u2014 how hopeless the situation seemed around the year 2000, when malaria, tuberculosis and HIV were totally out of control. Since then, efforts funded, in large part, by development aid have saved more than 65 million lives from those diseases alone.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt the work has just gotten a lot harder, but we never thought it was going to be easy. And we still have the key ingredients of success. The pipeline of innovations has never been stronger. More lower-income countries are taking a leading role. As some donors announce cuts, others are stepping up.<\/p>\n<p>____<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press receives financial support for news coverage in Africa from the Gates Foundation and for news coverage of women in the workforce and in statehouses from Melinda French Gates&#8217; organization, Pivotal Ventures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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