Editing Gates Foundation (section)

===Financial assistance===

* [[Alliance for Financial Inclusion]] (AFI): A $35 million grant for the AFI supports a coalition of countries from the developing world to create savings accounts, insurance, and other financial services that are made available to people living on less than $2 per day.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewcave/2014/07/31/banking-for-the-poor-will-this-be-bill-gatess-greatest-philanthropic-achievement/#2a6a59b19a1f |title=Banking For The Poor: Will This Be Bill Gates' Greatest Philanthropic Achievement? |last=Cave |first=Andrew |work=Forbes |access-date=January 4, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=January 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192743/https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewcave/2014/07/31/banking-for-the-poor-will-this-be-bill-gatess-greatest-philanthropic-achievement/#2a6a59b19a1f |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Financial Access Initiative]]: A $5 million grant allows Financial Access Initiative to conduct field research and answer important questions about [[Microcredit|microfinance]] and financial access in impoverished countries around the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://wagner.nyu.edu/impact/centers/fai |title=Financial Access Initiative {{!}} NYU Wagner|website=wagner.nyu.edu|language=en|access-date=January 4, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Pro Mujer]]: A five-year $3.1 million grant to Pro Mujer—a microfinance network in [[Latin America]] combining financial services with healthcare for the poorest women entrepreneurs—will be used to research new opportunities for the poorest segment of the Latin American microfinance market.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20060426005812/en/Gates-Foundation-Awards-Pro-Mujer-3.1-Million |title=Gates Foundation Awards Pro Mujer $3.1 Million To Develop Innovative Microcredit Products |access-date=January 4, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726171437/https://www.businesswire.com/resourcenotfound |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Grameen Foundation]]: A $1.5 million grant allows Grameen Foundation to approve more microloans that support Grameen's goal of helping five million additional families, and successfully freeing 50 percent of those families from poverty within five years.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Gates Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Grameen Foundation |publisher=[[Grameen Foundation]] |date=August 29, 2006 |url=http://www.grameenfoundation.org/resource_center/newsroom/news_releases/~story=168 |access-date=October 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005013401/http://www.grameenfoundation.org/resource_center/newsroom/news_releases/~story%3D168 |archive-date=October 5, 2007|url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Grant worth $1.3 million [[Lawrence Muganga]] for his book ''You Can't Make Fish Climb Trees''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rwandan wins Canadian Innovation Award|url=https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/107173|date=May 14, 2013|website=The New Times {{!}} Rwanda|language=en|access-date=May 11, 2020|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726223709/https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/107173|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Support for [[Mojaloop]] Foundation with a 2020 grant of $4.7 million, and a 2023 grant of $8.5 million.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2023/11/inv-059287 | title=Inv-059287 | access-date=December 7, 2023 | archive-date=December 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207222941/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2023/11/inv-059287 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/foundations-help-launch-financial-inclusion-nonprofit |title=Foundations Help Launch Financial Inclusion Nonprofit |access-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-date=June 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240622202323/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/foundations-help-launch-financial-inclusion-nonprofit |url-status=live }}</ref>