Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will receive $12.5 billion from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to continue her work.
Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, and does not come from the foundation’s endowment. In her X post, she says she will focus on programs “on behalf of women and families.
” French Gates and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates divorced in 2021. At the time, the two agreed to continue working together on the foundation with the proviso that they would revisit the arrangement after two years. This year marks the end of that two-year period. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said in 2021 that if French Gates decided to leave, she would receive “personal resources from Bill for her philanthropic work” separate from the foundation’s endowment.
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