2024.12 The philanthropist is spending $1 billion — and leveraging her ever-growing celebrity — to call more attention to the systemic problems facing women and girls. Now she's focusing even more on women's health.
2024.12 這位慈善家投入10億美元，並利用她日益增長的名氣，呼籲更多人關注女性和女孩面臨的系統性問題。如今，她更加關注女性健康。
目前女性只收到総捐贈 2%
梅琳達·弗倫奇·蓋茲[2]（生名梅琳達·安·弗倫奇；1964 年 8 月 15 日）是美國慈善家。她在德州達拉斯出生長大，曾就讀於達拉斯烏蘇拉學院、杜克大學和杜克大學福庫商學院。 1987 年，她加入微軟擔任多媒體產品開發人員後不久，就開始與公司聯合創始人兼當時的執行長比爾蓋茲約會，並於 1994 年與比爾蓋茲結婚，2021 年離婚。他們育有三個孩子。
從 2000 年到 2024 年，她和蓋茲共同擔任比爾和梅琳達蓋茲基金會的主席，該基金會是世界上最大的私人慈善組織。 [3] 他們因其專注於全球健康、發展和教育的慈善事業而獲得了無數獎項和榮譽，包括美國總統自由勳章和法國榮譽軍團勳章。 2024 年 5 月，法蘭西斯蓋茲辭去聯合主席職務後，蓋茲成為更名後的蓋茲基金會的唯一主席。 [4]
離婚後，弗倫奇·蓋茨變得非常富有，如今是民主黨著名的巨額捐款人，專注於墮胎權。在2024年美國總統大選前夕，她向民主黨事業捐贈了超過1,000萬美元。 [66] 在那次選舉中，她支持喬·拜登，並在拜登下台後，又支持了卡瑪拉·哈里斯，這是她首次公開支持總統候選人。 [67][68]
Melinda French Gates[2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she was educated at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Duke University, and Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Shortly after joining Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-chief executive Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994 and divorced in 2021. They have three children together.
From 2000 to 2024, she and Gates co-chaired the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization.[3] For their philanthropic endeavors, which focused on global health, development, and education, they received numerous awards and honors, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honour. After French Gates resigned as co-chair in May 2024, Gates became sole chair of the renamed Gates Foundation.[4]
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