Give Global Blog
Last year, I wrote about Gates Philanthropy Partners as a beacon of hope during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a year later, Jennifer Alcorn, a deputy director with the Gates Foundation and Gates Philanthropy Partners, is here to give an insider’s perspective on the organization and what it was like to rapidly scale up grant-making, what the funding supported, and philanthropy’s role in the pandemic. Can you give us some background on how Gates Philanthropy Partners originated and an overview on how the organization has grown? Gates Philanthropy Partners is perhaps one of the best-kept secrets in philanthropy….
