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-The Gates Foundation is Bill Gates philanthro-capitalism at its apex and his ambition behind a facade of public good. As Bill states in the [[bill_melinda_gates_foundation#who_is_bill_gates_a_documentary|Corbett Series]], his investments in vaccines for the developing world yield a twenty to one return and that's years before the pandemic enabled his full leverage.
+The **Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation** is an American private foundation based in [[united_states:washington:Seattle]], [[united_states:Washington]].
+===== History =====
+On January 12, 2016, [[pharmaceutical_companies:Moderna]] announced that it had entered a funding agreement with the Gates Foundation to develop therapeutics against [[HIV]] and other diseases. The agreement included an initial $20 million grant, with the potential to increase the amount to $100 million.((//Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Advancing an mRNA-based antibody combination to help prevent HIV infection.// Moderna. Retrieved March 21, 2022, from http://archive.today/2021.08.23-023928/https://www.modernatx.com/ecosystem/strategic-collaborators/foundations-advancing-mrna-science-and-research)) ((//Moderna Wins Initial $20M Grant from Gates Foundation.// (2016, January 12). GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. https://archive.ph/xDOg7))
+On September 4, 2019, [[pharmaceutical_companies:BioNTech]] announced it had received a $55 million grant from the Gates Foundation to expand its HIV and [[tuberculosis]] portfolios.((Boehler, M. (2019, September 4). //BioNTech announces new collaboration to develop HIV and tuberculosis programs.// BioNTech. http://archive.today/2022.01.03-191438/https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-new-collaboration-develop-hiv-and))
+==== COVID-19 ====
+In June 2020, the foundation contributed $750 million to the development of the [[covid-19_vaccines:Vaxzevria|AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine]].((Canellis, D. (2020, June 5). //Bill Gates commits $750M to help Oxford vaccinate the world against COVID-19.// TNW | Fintech-Ecommerce. http://archive.today/2023.02.25-123239/https://thenextweb.com/news/bill-gates-covid-coronavirus-vaccine-750-million-oxford-azd1222))
+===== Organization =====
+==== Funding recipients ====
+=== Grants ===
+Recipients of grant funding from the foundation include:
+  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Janssen]]((//Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V.// Vipul Naik. Retrieved March 29, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.29-052407/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donorDonee.php?donor=Bill+and+Melinda+Gates+Foundation&donee=Janssen+Vaccines+%26+Prevention+B.V.))
+=== Strategic Investment Fund ===
+Companies in the foundation's SIF include:
+  * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Pfizer]]((//Pfizer.// Gates SIF. Retrieved June 22, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.06.22-183302/https://sif.gatesfoundation.org/investments/pfizer/))
+===== External links =====
+  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation|Wikipedia]]
+  * [[https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation|Wikispooks]]
+----
 ==== Vaccines for Africa ====
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 ==== Pandemic Data ====
-June 27, 2020 - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, together with other donors and partners of the [[COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator]], has announced a new alliance, the [[International COVID-19 Data Research Alliance]], aimed at accelerating clinical research on COVID-19 by enabling efficient data responses by making data available to heath researchers and scientists around the world. ((https://icoda-research.org/about/about-us/#visionandmission)) ((https://web.archive.org/web/20210412001037/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/international-data-alliance-launched-to-advance-covid-19-research))((https://web.archive.org/web/20211129082130/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/rockefeller-wellcome-fund-distributed-pandemic-data-analysis))
+June 27, 2020 - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, together with other donors and partners of the [[COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator]], has announced a new alliance, the [[International COVID-19 Data Alliance]] (ICODA), aimed at accelerating clinical research on COVID-19 by enabling efficient data responses by making data available to heath researchers and scientists around the world. ((https://icoda-research.org/about/about-us/#visionandmission)) ((https://web.archive.org/web/20210412001037/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/international-data-alliance-launched-to-advance-covid-19-research))((https://web.archive.org/web/20211129082130/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/rockefeller-wellcome-fund-distributed-pandemic-data-analysis))
 ==== Event 201 ====
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 ===== Affiliations =====
-The Foundation is a member organization of the [[World Economic Forum]], with whom it co-hosted [[pandemic_War_games:Event 201]] in 2019, with the [[johns_hopkins_university:Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security]].((Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. (2019, October 14). //Event 201 Facebook Event Announcement.// Facebook. https://archive.org/details/event-201-facebook-event-announcement))
+The Foundation is a member organization of the [[World Economic Forum]], with whom it co-hosted [[pandemic_War_games:Event 201]] in 2019, with the [[johns_hopkins_university:Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security]].((Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. (2019, October 14). //Event 201 Facebook Event Announcement.// Facebook. https://archive.org/details/event-201-facebook-event-announcement)) It is also a partner of the [[Chinese Vaccinology Course]] at the [[University of Chinese Academy of Sciences]] alongside the [[Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention]].
 ==== Research ====
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 The grant will largely be used to support efforts to disseminate information about public-health initiatives in Bihar, one of the poorest and most underserved states in India.
-The BBC World Service Trust, the international charitable arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, works to promote human rights and reduce poverty through media and communications. It often works with the BBC World Service to get its message to the 180 million people around the globe who tune in to BBC World Service on a weekly basis and also provides technical support for news and media organizations in the developing world.
+The [[:BBC]] World Service Trust, the international charitable arm of the [[:British Broadcasting Corporation]], works to promote human rights and reduce poverty through media and communications. It often works with the BBC World Service to get its message to the 180 million people around the globe who tune in to BBC World Service on a weekly basis and also provides technical support for news and media organizations in the developing world.
-A recent Seattle Times analysis found that the Gates Foundation has spent nearly $70 million on direct grants to media organizations or for media training and research in an effort to boost and shape coverage of global health and development issues. However, the foundation told the Times that the BBC grant was different than grants it had awarded to news organizations like ABC and PBS.
+A recent **Seattle Times analysis found that the Gates Foundation has spent nearly $70 million on direct grants to media organizations or for media training and research in an effort to boost and shape coverage of global health and development issues**. However, the foundation told the Times that the BBC grant was different than grants it had awarded to news organizations like ABC and PBS.
 "This grant does not support the news gathering capacity of the BBC," said Gates Foundation spokesman Chris Williams in an e-mail to the Times. "This grant is essentially public education."
 Sandi Doughton. "Gates Foundation Gives $20M to BBC Charity Arm."((https://web.archive.org/web/20210303143449/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014393133_bbc04m.html)) Seattle Times 03/03/2011.	((https://web.archive.org/web/20210303143449/http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-awards-20-million-to-bbc-world-service-trust))
+=== YouTube Partnerships ===
+== Khan Academy ==
+The gates foundation gave Khan Academy $300K. ((https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2022/11/inv-047952))
+Bill Gates was pivotal in ensuring the success of Khan Academy. ((https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/how-sal-khans-academy-turned-into-the-school-for-100-million-people/))
+== Kurgsagt ==
+Kurgsagt has been given $570,000 in a grant by the gates foundation. ((https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/11/opp1139276))
+According to an analysis, Kurgsagt consistently references gates-funded sources in their research. ((https://youtube.com/channel/UCjr2bPAyPV7t35MvcgT3W8Q))
+== Crash Course ==
+Crash course was started with backing from Bill Gates think tank "bcC3" ((https://www.vox.com/2014/11/6/11632628/vlogbrothers-bring-crash-course-videos-to-pbs-digital-studios))
+== Vsauce ==
+A video entitled "The Future of Reasoning" was created to promote the book "How to avoid a Climate Disaster" ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArVh3Cj9rw))
+== Minute Earth ==
+"Do you need to be rich to be healthy? (ft. Bill Gates)" was made in collaboration with Bill and Melinda as well as with financial support ((https://youtu.be/PCTVL5oKlik))
 ==== NGO Drug Networks ====
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 [[:Jeremy Farrar]], the [[:Wellcome Trust]] director, struck a similar note. “Comprehensive pandemic preparedness and response requires the sort of funding and international cooperation that only governments can muster,” he said.
-Farrar, however, defended the [[:ACT-A]] partnership as “the best mechanism we have for delivering lifesaving Covid-19 tools across the world.”
+Farrar, however, defended the [[:ACT-Accelerator]] (Act-A) partnership as “the best mechanism we have for delivering lifesaving Covid-19 tools across the world.”
 “Before ACT-A was set up, there was no formal mechanism in place to coordinate and accelerate the development, production and equitable access to Covid-19 interventions globally,” he said. “While ACT-A may not be perfect … the global response would have been poorer and far more fragmented without it.”
-The POLITICO and WELT investigation found, however, that ACT-A’s structure diminished accountability. ACT-A representatives set funding priorities and campaigned for donations.** But the money — $23 billion in total — went directly to the entities involved** in the initiative, such as [[:Gavi]] and [[:CEPI]]. Although ACT-A’s website keeps track of how much money was raised, it is nearly impossible to tell exactly where all of it went. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220915020901/https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969))
+The POLITICO and WELT investigation found, however, that ACT-A’s structure diminished accountability. ACT-A representatives set funding priorities and campaigned for donations.** But the money — $23 billion in total — went directly to the entities involved** in the initiative, such as [[:Gavi]] and [[:CEPI]]. Although ACT-A’s website keeps track of how much money was raised, it is nearly impossible to tell exactly where all of it went.
+Meanwhile, in the U.S., leaders of the organizations were also in contact with senior U.S. health officials. Emails obtained by Republicans on Capitol Hill illustrate the extent to which Farrar, the director of Wellcome, was in touch with officials in some of the highest levels of the U.S. government on a sensitive health and national security issue.
+The emails,((https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143222/https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Letter-Re.-Feb-1-Emails-011122.pdf)) released this year, show Farrar in the early weeks of the pandemic discussing the possibility of Covid having leaked from a lab in China with top U.S. health officials including [[:Anthony Fauci]] and [[:National Institutes of Health]] Director [[:Francis Collins]].((https://web.archive.org/web/20220915020901/https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969))
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 The title of the article was apparently edited in a hurry post-publication because Google News still lists it as “How Bill Gates and his partners took over the global Covid response”. Here’s the archive link to the original article with “Bill Gates” in the title — proving it was later edited in a hurry. ((https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/politico-how-bill-gates-took-over))
-===== Link Dump =====
+===== External links =====
+  * [[https://covidtruthinitiative.ca/en/Organizations/Bill-&-Melinda-Gates-Foundation|COVID Truth Initiative]]
+==== Link Dump ====
 https://web.archive.org/web/20210226201936/http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/billionaire-philanthropy-is-a-pr-scam-wealth-tax-proponent-argues
 https://web.archive.org/web/20210228153224/http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-sells-off-most-of-its-healthcare-pharmaceutical-holdings
 https://archive.md/m1Gm9