Patty Stonesifer is the Co-chair and President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest charitable foundation. ...

In 1997, Bill and Melinda Gates asked Ms. Stonesifer to launch the Gates Learning Foundation, which later merged with the William H. Gates Foundation in 2000. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $24 billion endowment fund hands out more than a billion dollars a year to "improve access to advances in global health and learning." The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest charitable foundation. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: Education WikEd is a MediaWiki set up specificially for educators and education research. ...

Prior to 1997, Ms. Stonesifer was a consultant to DreamWorks SKG and held a senior vice president position at Microsoft. As Senior Vice President of the Interactive Media Division, Ms. Stonesifer was responsible for an $800 million business whose product was interactive entertainment, news, information and service products. In addition, Ms. Stonesifer managed Microsoft's investments in new online content and service products including MSN. During her tenure at Microsoft, her division produced software titles including Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, Microsoft's Magic School Bus Series and Microsoft Flight Simulator. In 1996 she negotiated a Microsoft and DreamWorks SKG joint venture, DreamWorks Interactive. The DreamWorks Boy on the Moon Logo DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, music, and television programming. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... MSN (or Microsoft Network) is an Internet service provider and web portal (initially meant to be a parallel net to the Internet) created by Microsoft on August 24, 1995, coinciding with the release of Windows 95. ... Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation. ... 1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The Magic School Bus is a series of books intended to teach scientific concepts to children. ... Microsoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator is a flight simulator program for Microsoft Windows. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... The DreamWorks Boy on the Moon Logo DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, music, and television programming. ... Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is a leading video game developer and publisher. ...

Ms. Stonesifer's is a founding board member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. She also serves on the board of The Vaccine Fund, which helps to provide vaccines to third world countries. Ms. Stonesifer has also served on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS. She is a founding co-chair of the CITIES board, which promotes expanding the use of technology in Seattle's community colleges. Ms. Stonesifer donates both time and resources to a number of other regional nonprofit organizations and serves on the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution and the board of directors of Amazon.com and Viacom Inc. In July 1996, she was named as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America by Time magazine. The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists the General Assembly in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development. ... The Castle The Smithsonian Institution is a museum complex with most of its facilities in Washington D.C.. It consists of 16 museums, 7 research centers and 142 million items in its collections. ... Amazon. ... Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) [pronunciation: pre-Redstone/pre-1987: vee-a-com; post-Redstone acquisition: vi-a-com] (NYSE: VIA), (NYSE: VIAB) is an international media conglomerate. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...

She is married to the political columnist and former head of the Microsoft-funded online journal Slate, Michael Kinsley. She has two children from a previous marriage. Michael Kinsley (born March 9, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is a veteran American political journalist and commentator, currently serving as Editorial and Opinion Editor at the Los Angeles Times (since April 2004) (though he announced in July 2005 that he would assume a reduced, but as-yet-undefined, role). ...