Just a quick note to say that I have updated my list of all education-related grants by the Gates Foundation – issued through June 2018, that is. By my calculations, the foundation has made some $62 million in grants so far in 2018, which strikes me as quite low compared to previous years.
The Gates Foundation has announced that it’s changing how it handles its education investments. And it’s partnering with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for some of this work, a company that is even less transparent – it’s not a foundation, so it needn’t be. I’ll still try to maintain this project because I think it’s important to be able to look and see how influential these billionaire-philanthropists are in shaping education policy and education narratives.