The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does many extraordinary things well, but public transparency and communicating with outsiders are not…
The world’s biggest philanthropy is entering a new era, a third phase of sorts, but is hardly settling into a…
Today is the last day for former Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes to serve as CEO of the Bill & Melinda…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world’s biggest philanthropy, but big doesn’t by itself translate into best. Making the Gates Foundation better has been Jeff Raikes’ job for the last five years or so. He has presided over dramatic growth – from a few hundred employees to now more than 1200 – and a significant reorganization internally.
Raikes has presided over rapid growth and a major internal re-organization at the Gates Foundation, including efforts made to improve the philanthropy’s relationship with grantees, its reputed ‘sensitivity’ to criticism and transparency concerns.
Bill Gates issued his annual letter for 2013 today, in which he makes the case for measurement as a critical…
Last week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation release its annual report and I did a quick analysis of it,…
Jeff Raikes and other senior leaders at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today engaged in a conference call with…
As noted yesterday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released its annual report for 2010 and, once again, promised to…