<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Karolin Seitz</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:karolinseitz@globalpolicy.org">karolinseitz@globalpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:33 PM<br></div><br><div class="msg-87513127945015733"><div link="#0092FF" vlink="#0092FF" lang="DE"><div class="m_-87513127945015733WordSection1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Please find below the announcement of a new working paper published by GPF and analyzing the global health grant-making patterns by three of the biggest private foundations.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/en/publication/private-foundations-and-their-global-health-grant-making-patterns">https://www.globalpolicy.org/en/publication/private-foundations-and-their-global-health-grant-making-patterns</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> <br></span></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">-</span></p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"></span></div><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-radius:0px"><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background:#eff2f7;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:15.0pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100.0%;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" width="100%" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div align="center"><table style="width:135.0pt;border-collapse:collapse;border-radius:0px" width="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;word-break:break-word"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm" valign="top"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center"><table style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background:white;padding:15.0pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50.0%;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" width="50%" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div align="center"><table style="width:180.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:3.75pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"></span><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="width:50.0%;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;word-break:break-word" width="50%" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><table style="width:240.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div><p><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Private foundations and their global health grant-making patterns</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;word-break:break-word"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm" valign="top"><div><p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A rapid analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By Emer Breen and Ramya Kumar</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Published by GPF Europe <br>Bonn, October 2023<br><a href="https://8w9pq.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4Oj9PgrH6gfg0l4oAhef5bIgv/U1GDVe9P9Hwh" title="Private foundations " target="_blank">www.globalpolicy.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background:white;padding:15.0pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;word-break:break-word"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:100.0%;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" width="100%" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 7.5pt 0cm 7.5pt" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 11.25pt 0cm" valign="top"><div><p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Private foundations play an increasingly important and influential role in global health; however, this role has been poorly monitored and largely unevaluated, prompting calls for greater accountability. At a minimum level, clear information should be provided about their grant-making activities. We describe the global health granting patterns of three private foundations: the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), the Wellcome Trust (WT), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), using data publicly available on their websites, for the years 2018 – 2020.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The BMGF is the largest private funder of global health; the RF is a pioneer foundation  that played a dominant role in global health between the two world wars; and the WT is one of the largest philanthropic funders of clinical research. For each foundation we describe the amount of money granted, which organisation types received funding and their locations, the top-twenty biggest grants and the top-twenty biggest recipients of grant funding.<br> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:11.25pt 0cm 11.25pt 0cm"><div align="center"><table style="width:150.0pt;background:#1f4e79;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;border-radius:4px" width="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1"><tbody><tr style="height:21.6pt"><td style="border:solid #1f4e79 1.0pt;padding:9.0pt 3.75pt 9.0pt 3.75pt;height:21.6pt;border-radius:4px" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white"><a href="https://8w9pq.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4Oj9PgrH6gfg0l4oAhef5bIgv/hEvlcrMJAb2I" title="Private foundations" target="_blank"><span style="color:white;text-decoration:none">Read / download <br>the working paper</span></a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align=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