Our investments accelerate growth and stimulate private sector innovation and investment, giving our partners additional tools to effect change and improve lives. We make investments that align with foundation issue areas from vaccine development to education in the United States.
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Pharmaceutical company Biological E identifies innovative approaches to reduce the cost of vaccine production.
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BioFarma received support from the foundation to expand access to its novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Investment Date: April 2022
BioNTech is focused on combining ground-breaking research with cutting-edge technologies to develop pioneering therapeutics for cancer and other serious diseases. The Foundation is working with BioNTech on developing preclinical vaccines and immunotherapy candidates to prevent HIV and tuberculosis infection as Read More
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Through its mobile payments platform, bKash helps to ensure access to a broader range of financial services for the people of Bangladesh.
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Software development company BloomBoard received funding from the foundation to help efforts in improving teachers’ instructional practices.
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Butterfly has created the world’s first handheld whole body ultrasound system to democratize healthcare and provide global access to medical imaging. The device is critical to the foundation’s vision of an ecosystem where hardware, software, data and expertise come together Read More
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The foundation provided a guarantee to CHAI to structure volume guarantees to reduce the price and increase access to life-saving commodities in the developing world.
The Charter School Growth Fund provides strategic support to high-performing charter management organizations. Inclusive within its support, CSGF provided subordinated bridge loans to address the short-term financing gap CMOs face during construction.
As a follow-on to the CSGF Facility Fund, the organization created a new fund in 2016, to broaden their lending to include early-stage operators, provide more proactive technical assistance and partner with other key stakeholders to remove barriers to affordable charter facilities and financing.
Funding from the foundation and New Markets Tax Credits, alongside support from Civic Builders, built new schools in a bankrupt city where facilities assistance was otherwise unavailable.
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