As co-chair of the worldÒ€ℒs largest private charitable foundation, melinda gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy. Co-founder of the bill & melinda gates foundation, she is not only a Ò€¦ Melinda gates has received an eye-watering sum of money from her ex-husband bill gates as one part of their enormous divorce settlement for her new solo charity foundation

August 15, 1964) is an american philanthropist. Born and raised in dallas, texas, she was educated at ursuline academy of dallas, duke university, Ò€¦ Along with her husband, melinda gates initiated her charitable endeavors in 1994, largely at the behest of billÒ€ℒs father, william h. Gates, but also from the example of billÒ€ℒs mother, a devoted philanthropist Ò€¦