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Gates' scholarship fund to benefit Cambridge

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 23 May 2000 | News

Bill Gates is talking to the University of Cambridge about establishing a global scholarship programme worth at least £130m.

Bill Gates is talking to the University of Cambridge about establishing a global scholarship programme worth at least £130m. It would fund at least 230 bursaries each year, rivalling the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford University.

Read Gates eyes Cambridge for global scholarship fund by Rebecca Smithers at The Guardian.

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Also in today’s Guardian (G2 section) is an interview with Patty Stonesifer, who runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The article is not on The Guardian’s Web site so you’ll have to buy the newspaper.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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