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MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have given more than $28 billion through two very different approaches: How their philanthropy is reshaping charities, empowering women and changing the way billionaire wealth is used to drive lasting social impact

MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have committed more than $28 billion to philanthropy through two very different approaches. Scott has donated more than $26 billion through unrestricted, trust-based grants, allowing nonprofits to decide how to use the money. French Gates has focused her giving through Pivotal Ventures on women's…

The Economic Times

Bill Gates donated record $8 billion to Melinda French Gates' foundation as part of their divorce settlement

The donation is one of the biggest ever recorded.

Fortune

Melinda French Gates reflects on legacy of Gates Foundation as it announces it will close in 2045

Melinda French Gates says she and her ex-husband, Bill Gates, always intended for the foundation they started together to spend down all of its resources rather than to exist in perpetuity

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Women's sports fund Monarch reaches $250 million

Pivotal Ventures is a major LP, and Monarch is its own sports exposure.

Fortune

Plenty of people give lip service to investing in women. She's devoted her career to it

Female Founders Fund is now on its third fund and has raised a total of $125 million from LPs including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, and Goldman Sachs.

Fortune

Melinda French Gates will give $250M to women's health groups globally through a new open call

Melinda French Gates will grant $250 million to support women’s health around the world through an open call for nonprofits to apply for funding

The Independent UK

Melinda French Gates Gives $1 Billion in Support of Women's Rights

Melinda French Gates will give $1 billion to philanthropic individuals and organizations advancing women’s rights globally, over the next two years.

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Less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls. Can Melinda French Gates change that?

For years, less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the U.S. has gone to benefit women and girls, but that could change in part thanks to new resources that Melinda French Gates has pledged in recent weeks

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Who is getting part of Melinda French Gates' $1 billion initiative to support women and girls

Melinda French Gates plans to donate $1 billion over the next two years to organizations supporting women and girls around the world

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Melinda Gates is giving away $1 billion in the next years. Here’s where it’s going

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will change its name to the Gates Foundation

The Independent UK

Melinda Gates Net Worth: More Firepower To Help 'Every Woman And Girl'

On Forbes' real-time billionaires' list, Melinda Gates is 185th as of Dec. 27. Melinda had enough firepower in her to navigate through the fresh philanthropic and financial landscape after her separation from her billionaire husband.

International Business Times

Melinda French Gates redefines what a 'smart bet' in VC looks like

To advance more female founders and fund managers, Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures is turning to new markers of success and potential.

Fortune

Melinda French Gates: 'It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital'

By investing in women-led funds and early-stage companies, Pivotal wants to help transform the way that the venture capital industry looks at women.

Fortune

Major funders call for increased support of Black feminists

The need to increase funding for Black feminist organizations is urgent, according to an open letter from some of philanthropy’s most influential organizations – including Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, as well as the Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation – released Thursday

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With $10 million windfall, free Seattle coding school for women goes national to speed change in tech's bro culture

Amber Tanaka was burned out.

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Melinda French Gates will no longer pledge bulk of wealth to Gates Foundation

Philanthropist has pledged to give $bn to her new organisation, Pivotal Ventures

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