Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Front building in Seattle

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a non-profit organisation that donates money to fight diseases and poverty. It was founded by Bill Gates, the founder and previous CEO of Microsoft and his wife Melinda Gates.

The money comes from the billions of dollars Bill Gates earned from Microsoft.^[1]

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Media

Headquarters complex in Seattle as seen from the Space Needle
Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015 – visualization by Our World in Data
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
The "sanitation value chain" used by the Gates Foundation to illustrate their approach to sanitation, showing collection, transport, treatment and reuse.
The Gates Foundation created this video to advocate for increased innovation for toilets and everything they are connected to
Example for technology innovation: The off-grid Nano Membrane Toilet of Cranfield University – prototype on display at Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Delhi, India
Example of low-tech toilet development being funded: A urine-diverting dry toilet called Earth Auger toilet from Ecuador/US
Microbial fuel cell stack that converts urine into electricity (research by the University of the West of England, UK)
This is a photo of listed building number 1139003.

References

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