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(Seattle Children's) Seattle Children's receives $2.3 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete development of affordable respiratory support device.

(Delft University of Technology) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, the Netherlands) a grant to "Reinvent the toilet".

Aim of this project is to develop new technology for processing human waste without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and at costs affordable to the poor in developing countries.

(Imperial College London) A new project that aims to help local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and to provide healthy school meals for local children launches today.

The project, run by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, is supported in part by a $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The chief financial officers of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says he's leaving that post early next year to pursue other interests.

Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual report says it brought in $10.4 million in individual donations in 2008, without making an effort at fundraising.