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Please read the advice offered on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation re Grant Inquiries to assist you with your application.An extract follows:

The Foundation is only able to provide funding to a small percentage of qualified applicants. Although the size
of the foundations endowment has grown significantly in recent years, these assets pale in comparison to the size of the challenges we aim to tackle.

The foundation seeks to be strategic with its resources, favoring preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners when possible. Grant making is guided by the principle that in order to achieve lasting, large-scale change, philanthropic efforts must incorporate strategies to encourage effective public investment and to leverage private sector market potential. Priority is given to investments that serve as a catalyst to quicken the pace of progress, and to efforts whose net effect is to
augment, not supplant, government funding streams.