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CGD Development Update: CGD Receives $10 Million Gates Foundation Grant

Dec 19, 2006

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	CGD Development Update \| December 19, 2006

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CGD Receives $10 Million Gates Foundation Grant

Gates Grant The Center for Global Development has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support policy research on global health and poverty issues. The grant includes a commitment to match up to $5 million raised by CGD from other donors over the next five years. CGD president Nancy Birdsall said she was grateful for the grant, and for the Gates Foundation's active involvement with the Center's work. "The Gates Foundation is a major player in global health and development, not only because of its money but also because of the staff's openness to new ideas and their intellectual rigor. I am delighted that the Gates Foundation is among the Center's partners."

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Happy Holidays

It's been a busy year for us here at the Center for Global Development. This will be the last CGD Development Update for 2006. Our first issue next year will arrive in your inbox on January 9 and we will continue to send you this weekly e-letter on Tuesdays throughout 2007. We wish you and yours safe and happy holidays and success in the year to come.

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Nancy Birdsall

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Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development. She is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs. She has also written more than 75 articles for books and scholarly journals published in English and Spanish. Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of U.S. and Latin American newspapers and periodicals.

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The CGD Development Update is a weekly e-letter that provides information about rich country development policies, CGD events, initiatives, publications, and media citations