Avril Elfi from OAN
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 3:10 PM
Melinda French Gates has announced that she will donate $1 billion over the next two years to support women and families, including programs that advance “women’s reproductive rights.”
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On Tuesday, the philanthropist and ex-wife of controversial businessman Bill Gates announced plans to make a donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation after stepping down as its co-founder.
Gates previously claimed that a major factor in the divorce was her ex-husband’s ties to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. He is set to receive $12.5 billion in the divorce settlement.
“He was an abomination. He was evil incarnate,” she said in an interview. CBS.
Inside her The New York Times In his op-ed, Gates stated his commitment to advocating for women’s rights.
“I have long focused on increasing access to contraception abroad, but now, post-Dobbs, I feel compelled to support reproductive rights at home,” French Gates wrote in the op-ed. “For too long, a lack of funding has forced organizations fighting for women’s rights to be on the defensive, while the enemies of progress have been on the offensive. I want to help tip the balance in this fight.”
Gates’ new grant funding to the organization will go to “organizations working to protect women’s rights and increase women’s power and influence in the United States,” including the National Women’s Law Center, the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
“As a young woman, I never imagined the day would come when I’d be involved in something like this,” Gates said. “I’ve been given this incredible opportunity, and I’m going to rise to the occasion and do everything I can to set the agenda so that other women and girls can set their own agenda.”
She added that the “racial disparities in mortality rates” for women motivated her to donate blood.
“Maternal mortality rates remain disproportionately high in the United States, with Black and Native American mothers at highest risk. Women in 14 states lose the right to abortion under almost any circumstances. The United States remains the only developed country without any form of national paid family leave. The number of teenage girls experiencing suicidal thoughts and persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness is at a decade high.”
“Despite the dire need, only about 2 percent of charitable donations in the United States go to organizations that focus on women and girls, and only about 0.5 percent go to organizations that specifically focus on women of color. When this work is chronically underfunded, we all pay the price,” Gates said. “It’s shocking to even consider, but my one-year-old granddaughter may grow up with fewer rights than I did.”
Through her organization, Pivotal Venturesdonations will be paid.
“$200 million Existing US nonprofits that support women and girls: Center for Reproductive Rights, Collaborative for Gender & Reproductive Equity, Collective Future Fund, Community Change, Institute for Women’s Policy Studies, Moms Rising Education Fund, Ms. Women’s Foundation, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Partnership for Women & Families, National Women’s Law Center, New America, The 19th, Roosevelt Institute, Center for States United Democracy, Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, Washington Center for Equitable Growth…
$240 millionhas awarded $20 million each to global leaders including: AAKOMA Project Founder Dr. Alfie Breland Noble, Olympic Gold Medalist Allyson Felix, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Illuminativ Founder Crystal Echo Hawk, Equimundo: Centre for Masculinity and Social Justice Founder Gary Barker, She Right Woman Founder Hauwa Ojeifo, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee, COPPA: LGBTI+ Economic Empowerment Lab Founding Partner MV Lee Badgett, American Boys and Men’s Association Founding President Richard V. Reeves, Kidogo Co-Founder and CEO Sabrina Habib, and Afghanistan Leadership School Co-Founder Shabana Basij Rasik…
$250 million According to Pivotal Ventures, the prize will be awarded to an organization working to improve the mental and physical health of women around the world, and will be selected through an open competition with Lever for Change this fall. AP News.
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