Who, What & Why: Gates Foundation Overview
Get to know the Gates Foundation—who we are, what drives our work, and how we partner with others to tackle the world’s toughest challenges. This introductory tour explores the Foundation’s history, values, and vision for a more equitable world, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how change happens. This tour will involve storytelling, discussion, and hands-on engagement with examples.
Innovation in Action
See, touch, and explore the ideas and innovations shaping a healthier, more equitable world. This tour highlights real-world objects—from simple tools to cutting-edge technologies—that are improving lives and driving progress toward helping everyone live a healthy and productive life. This tour will involve storytelling, discussion, and hands on engagement with examples.
Building Prosperous Futures
Discover how communities around the world are creating pathways out of poverty and building brighter futures. This tour explores progress made toward ending poverty and highlights projects the foundation has supported that empower people to thrive. This tour will involve storytelling, discussion, and hands on engagement with examples.
Fighting Disease
Explore how global collaboration is reducing health inequities and ensuring access to lifesaving care. This tour highlights efforts to end preventable deaths and strengthen health systems—showcasing partnerships that help more people, particularly mothers and children, survive and thrive. This tour will involve storytelling, discussion, and hands on engagement with examples.
Special Exhibition: A Better Way to Go
Everybody deserves a clean, safe toilet that supports their health! 3.6 billion people worldwide lack a toilet that safely manages their waste, and even those who do have access to safe, healthy sanitation use systems with challenges around sustainability and reliability. Join this special exhibition tour and learn more about the future of safe sanitation.